The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom released its annual list of most frequently challenged books of 2011 yesterday, and the increased popularity of Suzanne Collins' dystopian saga -- in large part fueled by buzz surrounding the blockbuster film -- drove the books higher on the list.
And someone told me there were 117 books on the list, hugely varied.
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking isn't exactly a bestseller -- we weren't able to locate any eligible books from that list -- but it's a popular enough title, with a current rank of 1, 432 (if the rental option takes off, that position's likely to change).
It is on a short list of books I think everyone should read.
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Through his conversations, he had a list of books that were recommended.
But in terms of the competition, there has to be more than one person involved in the operation and a list of books.
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"Looper, " a thriller about time-traveling mob victims which opens next week, is the latest in a long list of books, movies and TV shows wrestling with the complexities of time travel.
Best of all, Amazon gives me a list of other books that Underworld buyers have chosen.
Visitors to the World Book Day website were given a list of 10 books and asked which they had lied about reading.
The idea is to delist them, take over, put in new management, clean the financial books and then re-list in Hong Kong, where accounting standards are less rigorous.
The list also includes books for older children like Roald Dahl's The Twits, plus titles beloved of teenagers such as Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Thomas Hardy, Dickens and Tolstoy all figure in the list, alongside books for very young children like The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, and Eric Carle's early years counting book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The "lesson goals" of one of the text books is to have the children list the "reprehensible" qualities of Jewish people and another, that Jews are pigs and apes.
Worse from Amazon's point of view, science-fiction buffs might be tempted to order other sorts of books from Ingram's general list at the same time as they pick up the latest Asimov.
Back in December, China Law Blog impresario and China Tracker contributor Dan Harris offered his list of 10 best books on China, five of which were praised on our podcast.
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At one point this past summer Alloy had nine books on the New York Times bestseller list.
It is expanding its erotica list this year from 48 books to 60.
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Every issue has 36-pages and the contents assist kids to do further research on the topic by presenting a list of recommended websites and books.
The other "Big Six" publishers either refuse to allow libraries to lend out their e-books (at least their "front list" of current bestsellers), or they require libraries to periodically pay to re-license e-books.
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The following is my list of 10 must-read books for people planning their first business trip to China.
For instance, people who search for a particular novelist like Ernest Hemingway could, under the new system, find a list of the author's books they could browse through and information pages about other related authors or books, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
This first list originally appeared on the ChuanChaunr China Books blog over a month ago.
Longtime Hollywood publicist Michael Levine, who has also authored books on the topic, adds humor to the list, if the circumstance allows it.
"Racy lit" has led to a surge in library loans in Surrey as romance novels topped the list of the most popular e-books borrowed last year.
That said, there is more than just prestige that comes with being at the top of the list: The lists generate attention for books, thus boosting sales further.
For example, from the above list, the people who produce telephone books simply do not have the right to prevent anyone coming up with a better way of finding telephone numbers.
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Its list looks very similar, in fact: books, browsers, telephony, documents, movies, music, mobile devices.
He founded his own company in 1967 to package books for other publishers, then developed his own book list, starting with "Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan, " still in print.
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