Society and Reading: "100 Books that Changed Lives" Project Started in Russia

Designed to increase young people's interest in reading and to select by online voting ten best Russian and foreign literary works, "100 Books that Changed Lives" project has launched in Russia. “Public Readership Initiative” organization and Rospechat originated this action.

As the head of the "Public Readership Initiatives" Sergei Kuznetsov said at the press conference, "100 popular among teenagers Russian actors, directors, writers, athletes, and broadcasters have joined the project. They shared their readers' tastes with the authors of the initiative, and what is how a list of hundreds of works that already changed someone's lives has came out."

According to Sergei Kuznetsov, the audience will vote for a month at the specially created project website (www.100starbooks.ru). The follow-up will determine a list of the top 100 books that teenagers should’ve been read. Voting results will be announced on November 30, 2013, at the International Fair of Intellectual Non-fiction Literature, which will be held in Moscow from the 27th of November to the 1st of December.

Rospechat CEO Vladimir Grigoriev stated: "This project is one more step to draw young people's attention to literature and to prove that no competitive generation would be raised without reading."