World Book Day preview

News in The Guardian of a long list to make your eyes water as Book Clubs are to be invited to choose 'hidden gems' to be lauded on World Book Day, March 2008.
Good to see the Voice of the People getting a word in edgeways, but this list so daunting as to phase even this prizelisteria sufferer, so I'll just hang around in the shadows until a shortlist of ten emerges in February.
But am delighted to see I've read a whopping great big nine of the hundred
Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davis
Salt and Honey by Candi Miller
The Girl From the Chartreuse by Pierre Peju
Things to Make and Mend by Ruth Thomas
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
but add in the ones I've been meaning to read for ages
Footprints in the Sand by Sarah Challis
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Galvada
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
The Time of Dying by Reina James
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
and that all sounds a bit better.