Omnivoracious Sweepstakes: Win Our 2008 Editors' Top 10 Books

 That's right: like soda pop companies and magazine distributors, we at Omnivoracious now have our own sweepstakes. This month, to celebrate our new daily email digest (and to encourage you to subscribe to it), we're offering the prize of a complete set of our Editors' Top 10 books of 2008 (as seen in our Best of 2008 store) to one lucky reader who subscribes to the Omnivoracious email digest by March 23, 2009. (If you've already subscribed, first of all, bless you, and second, you can make yourself eligible too by filling out the entry form with the same email address you subscribed with.) You can find the entry form and all the rules here.

But what about the prize? It's a fat stack of fantastic books--I know because they were sitting on the floor behind my chair until they took them away to take the picture--4,592 pages worth, to be exact. You'll find Sheffielders in the '70s, Franklins and Orthogonians in the '60s, seducers of the innocent in the '50s, and anarchists in the '00s. You'll go to Dublin, Northern England, Iraq and Afghanistan, Greenwich Village, San Clemente, Chicago, rural Wisconsin, and the mountains of North Carolina, and on road trips through eastern Europe and the American West. You may decide, like one customer, that The Forever War, our #4 pick, will "become the classic book of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars," or you may agree with another customer that our favorite book of the year, The Northern Clemency, was "irritatingly dull." Either way, you won't have paid a cent!

Here's exactly what our fabulous prize includes (here's my original post announcing the list in November):

1. The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
2. Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
3. Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
4. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
5. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
6. The Likeness by Tana French
7. Serena by Ron Rash
8. So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
9. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
10. The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu

If you're really feeling lucky, or just want more Amazon editors' posts delivered in your in-box every day, visit the other Amazon blogs listed on the bar at the top of any Omnivoracious page: we're also giving away DVDs, CD box sets, an Elmo, and some insane and crazy gadgets I can't even understand. Best of luck to you, and thanks for reading. --Tom

Comments

[Gerald Myers on February 23, 2009 at 08:21 PM]

A great way to catch up on my reading

[Janet F on February 23, 2009 at 08:36 PM]

Thank you!

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[mineola on February 23, 2009 at 09:25 PM]

A bookworm's dream splurge!

[John Sweeney on February 24, 2009 at 03:17 AM]

love reading

[barbara on February 24, 2009 at 04:01 AM]

I am never without a book. I love to read, my favorite hobby. Thanks for the contest

[Kathy Bowie on February 24, 2009 at 04:44 AM]

Love to read and always enjoy something new to read. Hope I get these great books for my bookcase

[JACKIE MORRIS on February 24, 2009 at 04:56 AM]

THANKS LOVE TO READ

[mindy on February 24, 2009 at 04:57 AM]

awesome giveaway thanks

[Steve on February 24, 2009 at 05:01 AM]

I'm ready for some new books for my upcoming long cruise.

[Anne A on February 24, 2009 at 05:04 AM]

So many books, so little time!!

[Carol on February 24, 2009 at 05:57 AM]

It would be great not to have to wait for these books from the library. Thanks.

[Cynthia C on February 24, 2009 at 05:59 AM]

These would go to the beach. Four of us go on a reading vacation every year. Thanks for the giveaway.

[Cheryl Masciarelli on February 24, 2009 at 06:44 AM]

Great giveaway!!!! All those books are an avid reader's dream.

[Barbara Peterson on February 24, 2009 at 06:49 AM]

would love to have something good to read

[Barbara Peterson on February 24, 2009 at 06:52 AM]

would love to have something good to read

[Christine on February 24, 2009 at 07:53 AM]

How wonderful! Thank you!

[JANICE on February 24, 2009 at 08:13 AM]

GOOD CONTEST

[James W on February 24, 2009 at 08:25 AM]

Bookworm here.

[on February 24, 2009 at 09:09 AM]

I love to read. Great pize.

[Thomas Semesky on February 24, 2009 at 09:23 AM]

Looks like some interesting titles.

[veronica sandberg on February 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM]

reading is my mainstay

[Carey Hemond on February 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM]

I would love to read these books.

[Betty Mordecai on February 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM]

I love to read.

[John on February 24, 2009 at 11:54 AM]

Thanks for offering different contest and appreicate you keeping the website up to date.

[Sarah on February 24, 2009 at 01:19 PM]

Compelling readers to subscribe to this blog via email is kind of ridiculous when so many people probably already subscribe via RSS.

[Sara Amos on February 24, 2009 at 01:25 PM]

Id love to have some new books. My shelf is bare

[Alicia on February 24, 2009 at 02:06 PM]

Hi

[Jennifer B. on February 24, 2009 at 02:18 PM]

This is a great collection. Thanks for the chance.

[crystal on February 24, 2009 at 03:18 PM]

Would love to add these to my book collection

[Kathy Music on February 24, 2009 at 03:56 PM]

I can always use a book.

[denise smith on February 24, 2009 at 04:20 PM]

Love to have this set to read!

[avis fisher on February 24, 2009 at 04:21 PM]

I'm a reader, and something I don't have to buy is good!

[Arthur Lee on February 24, 2009 at 04:53 PM]

I am a book lover

[Christine V on February 24, 2009 at 06:03 PM]

How wonderful

[keith james on February 24, 2009 at 06:40 PM]

i love books

[Donna on February 24, 2009 at 08:03 PM]

so many books
so little time

[William Watkins, Jr. on February 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM]

let me win

[Victoria Kirshbaum on February 25, 2009 at 08:08 AM]

Good prize for a long winter.

[Betty Shoemaker on February 26, 2009 at 06:46 AM]

I do like to read, this would be great to win and keep me out of trouble

[Irene Yeates on February 26, 2009 at 02:39 PM]

Count me in for this Omnivoracious Sweepstakes!!

[Sandi on February 26, 2009 at 07:14 PM]

I read every chance I get and can't keep enough books around. This would be a great contest to win.

[nat88008 on February 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM]

So.......GREAT!!!!!!

[Janan Cheskis on February 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM]

Looks like a great group

[May Schultz on February 28, 2009 at 02:40 PM]

Gee, I could spend WEEKS reading books. Wouldn't I just LOVE to win something like this. it would keep me busy for awhile.

[Marie on February 28, 2009 at 07:08 PM]

Would love to win this prize. I love reading, especially best sellers!

[James Reardanz on March 01, 2009 at 08:25 PM]

Reading is the greatest enjoyment of my life the pleasure of sitting down and loseing myself in the life of another is the most gratifying pursuit I can find.

[Cathy W. on March 01, 2009 at 08:43 PM]

Thanks for the awesome giveaway opportunity! What a great addition to the personal library this would make!

[sandra on March 03, 2009 at 06:52 AM]

please enter me

[Kelly Ward on March 03, 2009 at 07:12 PM]

There is nothing better in this world that reading a good book. I hope to win!

[joyce amit on March 03, 2009 at 10:29 PM]

hope i win