The Book Awards Reading Challenge
Join this challenge?
Heck yeah! And thanks to Nancy, NP.
Since I'm a die-hard reader anyway, I might as well shoot for some quality, right? I have an Excel spreadsheet of books I've read and books I want to read and I thought this would be a great way to whittle that list down a bit.
My plan is to start with books I own. Since I got a late start--and--I did read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Pulitzer, 2003) in July--I'll count that as book one. Last night, I started Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (National Book Award, 1997) and in the queue are the following:
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (Gold Dagger Award, 2000 and National Book Critic's Circle, 1999)
- Lisey's Story by Stephen King (Bram Stoker Award, 2006)
- War Trash by Ha Jin (PEN/Faulkner Award, 2005)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke (Hugo Award, 2005 & World Fantasy Award 2005)
- One Thousand Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author, Nobel Prize, 1982)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Royal Society Prize, Science, 2004)
- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley ( Spur Award, 1999)
4 comments:
YOur book list looks great. I have been working on this challenge for a few months too.
What a nicely varied list! Mine will all be fiction, if I do this! =)
Just visiting from a link on Tonya's site. I read Cold Mountain last year and loved it. Open it to any page and you'll find pure poetry.
Thanks Jan for the book awards challenge. I've just joined it AND the paperback book swap club. I think I am going to make the rule that it has to be one that I haven't read before. As I read through the list, I realize that Ive read quite of few of the Pullitzers without even realizing it!
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