Announcing The Reagan Arthur Books Challenge

Have you heard about the great new imprint at Hachette Books?   “Reagan Arthur Books is an imprint with a simple, single focus: great writing in the service of great stories.”  When Julie of Booking Mama fame and I first heard about this imprint and some of its wonderful titles, we knew they were books we wanted to read.  The more we talked about it, the more excited we got.  Julie said someone should start a challenge, so we did!   The Reagan Arthur Books Challenge is a perpetual challenge that is all about fun and enjoying good books, so you don’t have to commit to reading a certain number of titles.  Since the imprint will be continually releasing books, there are no deadlines either.  Just lots of fun with exciting giveaways and a few other surprises!

The current releases from this imprint are:

• The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris

• Marriage and Other Acts of Charity by Kate Braestrup

• Doors Open by Ian Rankin

Upcoming titles include:

• Black Hills by Dan Simmons

• Still Midnight by Denise Mina

• Next by James Hynes

• The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton

• The Island by Elin Hilderbrand

• Patterns of Paper Monsters by Emma Rathbone

• Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons

• The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi

We’re hoping you’ll join us in this fun challenge and to entice you to sign up, we’re hosting a giveaway for a Reagan Arthur Books bundle – all you have to do to enter is sign up by February 28, 2010.  (You don’t have to have a blog to participate!  If you don’t have a blog, simply email us your review, and we’ll post it for you.)

We’re really excited about this challenge and we really want you to join us in reading these wonderful books. You can visit the challenge blog here,  the list of titles here, and sign up here.  Come on; you know you want to!