The 75 Books Challenge for 2010 group has a “Take It or Leave It” challenge for August, where they read a book by one of the authors who will be attending the 10th annual National Book Festival.
You don’t have to be part of the 75 Books Challenge group to decide to read a NBF author’s book. Even if you can’t go to the festival itself (in Washington, D.C. on September 25), you may be inspired to read a book by one of the participating authors. Maybe this is your chance to finally pick up Everything Is Illuminated, Outlander or Read to Your Bunny. You can join the 75 Book Challenge folks on their thread, or keep your reading choice to yourself.
I can’t go to the festival this year, but I’ve arranged to ask many of the authors in attendance ONE interview question each. If you’d like to be the one to ask any of these authors a question, post it here before September 1st.
- Mary Brigid Barrett
- Timothy Basil Ering
- Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Mem Fox
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Norton Juster
- Pat Mora
- Marilyn Nelson
- Linda Sue Park
- Jerry Pinkney
- James Ransome
- Judith Viorst
- Rosemary Wells
- Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
- Gurcharan Das
- Ree Drummond
- Bruce Feiler
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Spike Mendelsohn
- Michele Norris
- Henry Petroski
- Richard Rhodes
- Craig Robinson
- Anita Silvey
- Harold Varmus
- Edward O. Wilson
- Isabel Allende
- Ken Follett
- Diana Gabaldon
- Julia Glass
- Martha Grimes
- Olga Grushin
- Elizabeth Kostova
- Anchee Min
- Karin Slaughter
- Scott Spencer
- Peter Straub
- Scott Turow
- Adele Logan Alexander
- Timothy Egan
- Jules Feiffer
- Wil Haygood
- David E. Hoffman
- Richard Holmes
- James McGrath Morris
- Nell Irvin Painter
- David Remnick
- Steven V. Roberts
- Stacy Schiff
- Evan Thomas
- Gordon S. Wood
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Rae Armantrout
- Jonathan Franzen
- Gail Godwin
- Allegra Goodman
- Chang-rae Lee
- Thomas Mallon
- Orhan Pamuk
- Jane Smiley
- Natasha Trethewey
- M.T. Anderson
- Michael Buckley
- Margarita Engle
- Phillip M. Hoose
- Letters About Literature
- Brad Meltzer
- Katherine Paterson
- Jeff Smith
- Rebecca Stead
See the entire list of authors.
Tags: 75 Book Challenge, National Book Festival, NBF
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