Book Awards Reading Challenge
Jun 12th, 2007 by TooHotty
With the looming conclusion of the Once Upon a Time challenge, I figured I’d sign up for something new. The Book Awards Challenge is low-stress. Just 12 books from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008, and they all have to be prize winners. There’s an approved list of prizes.
I decided to try and get as diverse a list as possible by picking 12 different awards and doing one from each. The best part is, 9 of the 12 books are already sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, so this’ll be a nice way to get my act in gear with those.
I’m not hyperlinking these to Amazon because that takes a babillion years and it’s getting late. Go do a search if you’re so interested in a title, I’ll have your back next time.
- Murphy’s Law / Rhys Bowen (Agatha Award)
- American Gods / Neil Gaiman (this won every award ever, but I’m having it count as the Bram Stoker Award)
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves / Lynne Truss (British Book Award)
- Amsterdam / Ian McEwan (Booker Prize)
- Dune / Frank Herbert (Hugo Award)
- Speaker for the Dead / Orson Scott Card (Nebula Award)
- The Shipping News / Annie Proulx (National Book Award)
- My Name Is Red / Orhan Pamuk (IMPAC Dublin Award)
- The Other Wind / Ursula K. LeGuin (World Fantasy Award)
- On Beauty / Zadie Smith (Orange Prize)
- Air / Geoff Ryman (Arthur C. Clarke Award)
- The Tale of Desperaux / Kate DiCamillo (Newbery Medal)
So there you go. Easy peasy. I’ll probably end up reading a lot more award-winning books than this over the next year because I have such fantastic taste.
Nice list! I’ve read American Gods, Dune, Speaker for the Dead, and The Shipping News.
I love that you picked American Gods for the Bram Stoker award. So fitting, yet not (I believe) how this book is generally classified.
And, I’m assuming you’ve read Ender’s Game already? You’re in for a nice change of pace with Speaker for the Dead; it shifts gears completely.
Welcome to the blogging world; I’ve been enjoying your Once Upon a Time Challenge reviews!
Thanks! I’m technically not new to the blogging world, just new to this blog, writing with a real theme, and using complete sentences. I have an unfocued, rambly, crappy blog that I love over at http://inthewhat.blogspot.com The theme of that blog is comma splices.
ANYWAY, I read Ender’s Game years ago, so I’ll need some crib notes to refresh myself. And by ‘crib notes’ I mean Wikipedia.
P.S. I like your writing, so as soon as I get my butt in motion with a blogroll, you’re so invited.
Ooh, you’re reading my two favorite books ever! No pressure there. Speaker for the Dead is my favorite book, by my favorite author and American Gods is my favorite book of Gaiman’s. Excellent choices…I may do this challege too. Your list rocks!
Speaker of the Dead I actually picked up because you were so enthusiastic about it, so really, the pressure is on you.
American Gods I have a solid feeling about. I think my list rocks too, thanks.
Lol! I try to bury my comma splices (or hide them by distracting readers with flashier punctuation) instead of showing them off.
Thanks for the blogroll!
Don’t mention it, your blog is great, I especially like the name, I’ll be looking out for your flashy punctuation, that’s hilarious.
I swore I’d stay away from challenges for a bit this summer because I want to just whim read, but I may be able to do this one and read on a whim at the same time!!!
Yeah, I was surprised how many things have won awards about which I had no idea. I bet you could complete this without even trying.