Library Guides: June Madness!: Voting

Final Four - West

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
ISBN: 9780307588364
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "mercilessly entertaining" (Vanity Fair) instant classic "about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships" (Lev Grossman, Time).
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0590353403
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
After 10 miserable years with his aunt and uncle, Harry Potter is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Each book follows another year in Harry's education while more of his frightening destiny is revealed.

Your Champion - The Giver!

Congratulations to THE GIVER on winning the inaugural June Madness Championship at UD Libraries! In a 20-16 decision, The Giver arose as a champion of the modern classics, and its victory over the first title in the Harry Potter franchise is a testament to its enduring allure as one of our most beloved books.

We're still tabulating the results from your predictions, but we will have more information on the closest bracket shortly.

Final Four - East

The Giver by Lois Lowry
ISBN: 0395645662
Publication Date: 1993-04-26
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race" (Rolling Stone)

Final Four - West

Your Champion - The Giver!

Final Four - East

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