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Walter Mosley makes ‘World Book Night’ reading list

by Partner Content from PostScript'd | November 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM
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The “World Book Night” 2013 reading list was announced this week. Among the titles are books by Walter Mosley (author of “Devil in a Blue Dress”, along with Paulo Coelho, “Saturday Night Live” alum and “30 Rock” star Tina Fey and Mark Twain.

Each year, 30 books are selected to celebrate World Book Night, which is April 23rd, a day to promote reading and literacy, which also happens to be Shakespeare’s birthday. How many titles on this list of 30 have you read?

Check out the full “World Book Night” list at PostScript’d.

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