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.