NPR Book News: On Your Marks

November 11, 2014 — On Your Marks: The National Book Foundation, GoodReads, Mashable and Penguin Random House have partnered to launch a National Readathon Day on Jan. 24, 2015 . . . Keep reading at NPR.

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