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2nd December 2008

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Hosseini is reading groups favourite

15.08.08

Khaled Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner, has been voted the book of the year by reading groups, reports the Guardian, with his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, in second place.

More than 100 groups cast their votes via the Penguin and Orange websites and by entering themselves for the Penguin/Orange Broadband Readers' Group Prize. Other titles selected included Old Filth by Jane Gardam, Victoria Hislop's The Island, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Andrea Levy's Small Island--all in joint third place.

Guardian

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