"Harry Potter" 1st on NPR list of best young adult novelsAugust 8, 2012 - 12:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The witchcraft and wizardry of the "Harry Potter" series has entranced fans, who chose it as the greatest teen novels ever in an online poll conducted by NPR, TheWrap said. The franchise grossed more than $2.3 billion in revenue from its film series. And in a tally of more than 75,000 participants, the series beat out the second-placed "The Hunger Games" and Harper Lee's third-placed 1960 classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Newcomers to the list included No. 4, "The Fault in Our Stars," the story of a young cancer patient who falls in love with a boy whose leg was amputated. The author, John Green, also made it into ninth place with his earlier novel, "Looking for Alaska." The rest of the top 10 list was dominated by fodder for high school literature classes. J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" came in fifth, just as attention has been drummed up about the forthcoming film trilogy. J.D. Salinger's loss-of-innocence novel "Catcher in the Rye" placed sixth, tailed by Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury topped Markus Zusak's 2006 bestseller "The Book Thief." The nominees were suggested by NPR's audience and a panel with The New York Times' Pamela Paul, the Onion's A.V. Club book editor Tasha Robinson, Publisher's Weekly staffer Diane Roback and librarian Ted Schelvan filtered down the 1,200 recommendations to a voting list of 235 books. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. |