National Year of Reading: quick update

I've added a new tab to our Web Catalogue for the National Year of Reading.

At the moment there are two pages:

• NYR: a list of National Year of Reading resources and reading list links based on the Ultimate Book Guide
• Themes: reading list links based on the monthly themes

Cult Books

The Daily Telegraph's issued a list of "The 50 best cult books," which is to say, 50 books of cult reading rather than 50 books by or about cults (for the most part). Personally, I think the list betrays the vintage of the writer: I recall too many of the "you really must read this" titles from my student days (luckily I did a science degree, so intellectual reading wasn't compulsory and we could read sensible stuff like Machiavelli, Voltaire and Edgar Wallace).

The comments are almost as much fun as the list, too.

Read all about it

Here's one where I ask you for help:

I'm putting together some National Year of Reading-themed reading lists for the Web Catalogue. The "Read all about it" theme obviously suggests print journalism so that's what I'm going along with. I can find lots of non-fiction but I'm struggling with fiction: I want to include books with journalists as the main protagonists or with a press setting. Aside from "Scoop," which we have in reserve stock, all I could think of were some of the works of Edgar Wallace and E.Phillips Oppenheimer (betraying my vintage) which we don't have at all. (If you have to ask who they are you're too young to know). Oh, and Superman because Clark Kent's a reporter.

Any ideas?