Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' has been voted the Reading Group Book Of The Year for the third base year running in a poll of web voters and volume clubs.
Hosseini's indorsement novel, 'One Thousand Splendid Suns', took second in the vote. It is the third year in a run-in that 'The Kite Runner' has topped this poll, which was done through the Penguin and Orange websites and with readers groups in the UK.
The author aforesaid: "What a thrill it is for me, and indeed what a cracking honor, that The Kite Runner has been selected again as the Penguin/Orange Broadband Reading Group Book of the Year. The writing of this book was a labor of love for me.
"I grew quite attached to the characters and came to care for them in a most personal way."
Top 10 front-runner reading radical books, according to the Penguin/Orange poll:
1. 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini
2. 'One Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini
3. 'Old Filth' by Jane Gardam
3. 'The Island' by Victoria Hislop
3. 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver
3. 'Small Island' by Andrea Levy (all joint)
7. 'Suite Francaise' by Irene Nemirovsky
8. 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver
8. 'Salmon Fishing In The Yemen' by Paul Torday
8. 'The Inheritance Of Loss' by Kiran Desai (all joint)
Links:
www.readersgroupprize.com
www.penguin.co.uk/readers
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