Challenge: Book Awards II Challenge
August 30, 2008
I may not have been around for the first Book Awards Challenge, but I am here now for the Book Awards II Challenge (hosted by 3M) .
The basic rules: read 10 award winning books in10 months (deadline (June 2009). The list must include winners from at least 5 different awards.
My tentative starter list at this point (again in no particular order and some of these overlap with the 1% challenge list):
1: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (Booker Prize 1994)
2: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Bram Stoker Award 2001)
3: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (Hugo Award 1973)
4: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Nebula Award 1992)
5: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Pulitzer Prize 1993)
6: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Pulitzer Prize 1972)
7: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Spur Award 1985)
8: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (World Fantasy Award 2006)
9: The Master by Colm Tóibín (IMPAC Dublin 2006)
These are all books that I already have on my shelf. The rest of the list ist yet to be decided.
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Kathy | August 30, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Good Luck with this. We don’t have any books in common and I haven’t read any of the books on your list.
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tanabata | September 2, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Your list has a nice variety. I read Kafka on the Shore earlier this year and loved it! I also enjoyed The Master when I read it a few years ago.
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mangomissives | September 3, 2008 at 2:34 am
tanabata— Yes it is quite a varied list, isn’t it??? I have read quite a few of the winners on some of the awards lists (Booker and Pulitzer) so I picked this rag-tag assortment based on unread books I had sitting on my shelf.
I have been looking forward to reading Kafka on the Shore since Murakami is one of my favorite authors.
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