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Tuesday 23 April 2013

World Book Day: Must Reads Before You Die!

On World Book day, we asked people: Which is the one book to read before you die?
April 23 is World Book Day
In 1995, UNESCO decided that World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23rd April to celebrate prominent literary figures like William Shakespeare's whose birth and death anniversary fall on this day, along with Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's death anniversary.

Presently reading has either become an extinct interest or literature and strong fiction have given way to an infantile obsession with vampires, mythological figures and chic stories which are laced with mediocre language. This is because today, numerous alternate forms of entertainment are available which requires far less concentration and involvement than reading.
Here are a group of people who have survived the reading apocalypse and share their views about one book they feel you should read before you die!