Guantánamo Bay library's most wanted books? Anything but Barack Obama
JK Rowling, John Grisham and Agatha Christie vie with Islamic texts for favour at centre with 18,000 film and print items for loan
He has sold millions of copies of his books around the world, but it turns out that President Barack Obama's memoirs are near the bottom of prisoners' reading lists at Guantánamo Bay.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 25 August, 2010
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