The Kite Runner Wins the 2008 Penguin/Orange Broadband Reader's Group Prize!

For the third year in a row, Khaled Hosseini's novel of growing up in Iran and emigrating to America has won the Penguin/Orange Broadband Reader's Prize as the most popular reading group pick in the UK! And following The Kite Runner at #1, is Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns! Rounding out the top ten most "favourite" UK reading group books are:
#3 -- 4 books are tied for third place:
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Small Island by Andrea Levy
#7 Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
#8 -- 3 books are tied for eighth place
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

To view last year's winning books (Hosseini is not the only repeat), go here. And look for news of the best reading group of the year to be announced on 8/28, view the finalists here.