I didn’t participate last year but ran across this new challenge just recently. The goal is to read 10 books from August 1, 2008 – June 1, 2009. You have to choose from at least five different eligible award lists (ie Pulitzer, Agatha, etc).
Here’s a partial list I will be choosing from:
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Alex Awards)
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Alex Awards)
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Alex Awards)
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Alex Awards)
- the Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Costa/Whitbread)
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (National Book Award)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (National Book Critics’ Circle Award)
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Pulitzer Prize)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Nebula Award)
Completed Books in Challenge:
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Alex Awards) – SEPTEMBER
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Alex Awards) – OCTOBER
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Alex Awards) – OCTOBER
- B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (Anthony Awards) – NOVEMBER
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Nebula Award) – NOVEMBER
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Alex Awards) – NOVEMBER
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hugo Award) – DECEMBER
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Alex Award) – DECEMBER
- Stiff by Mary Roach (Alex Award) – DECEMBER
- Middlesex (Pulitzer) – JANUARY