Perpetual Challenges – The Award Winners

I participated in a lot of time restricted reading challenges in 2008 – and completed many of them – but, in 2009 I want to make a bigger dent in my perpetual reading challenge lists…especially those involving the award winners. To help me keep organized, I’ve decided to make a list of books I currently have on my TBR mountain AND those which I hope to purchase in 2009 which fit these challenges. Clicking on the “button” or Title for each challenge will take you to my master list.

• One More Year: Stories, by Sana Krasikov
• The Boat, by Nam Le
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer

• The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (winner 2004)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (winner 2008)
• Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (winner 2002)
• Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (winner 2000)
• American Pastoral, by Philip Roth (winner 1998)
• The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (winner 1995)
• A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (winner 1992)
• Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (winner 1989)
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison (winner 1988)
• The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty (winner 1973)
• All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren (winner 1947)
• The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (winner 1919)

The Complete Booker

• The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (winner 2008)
• Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan (winner 1998)
• Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth (winner 1992)
• True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (winner 2001)
• The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (winner 1995)
• Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie (winner 1981)

• The Road Home, by Rose Tremain (winner 2008)
• Fault Lines, by Nancy Huston (short list 2008)
• The Septembers of Shiraz, by Dalia Sofer (long list 2008)
• The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff (New Writers short list 2008)
• Digging to America, Anne Tyler (short list 2007)
• What Was Lost, by Catherine O’Flynn (long list 2007)
• The Lizard Cage, by Karen Connelly (New Writers winner 2007)
• On Beauty, by Zadie Smith (winner 2006)
• Minaret, by Leila Aboulela (long list 2006)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (winner 2005)
• The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman (short list 2005)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka (short list 2005)
• Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson (long list 2005)
• Small Island, by Andrea Levy (winner 2004)
• Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo (short list 2004)
• The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler (long list 2004)
• What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt (long list 2003)
• In The Forest, by Edna O’Brien (long list 2003)
• Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold (long list 2003)
• Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett (winner 2002)
• Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters (short list 2002)
• Five Quarters of an Orange, by Joanne Harris (long list 2002)
• The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville (winner 2001)
• Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout (short list 2000)
• Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels (winner 1997)
• A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore (winner 1996)
• Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (long list 1996)

Costa Book Award Project

• What Was Lost, by Catherine O’Flynn (First Novel winner 2007)
• Small Island, by Andrea Levy (Novel Award winner 2004)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (Novel Award winner 2003)
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson (First Novel winner 1995)
• The Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam (Novel Award winner 1991)

National Book Award Project

• Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski (short list 2007)
• Drop City, by T.C. Boyle (short list 2003)
• The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (short list 2003)
• Three Junes, by Julia Glass (winner 2002)
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (winner 2001)
• House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III (short list 1999)
• Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier (winner 1997)
• Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (short list 1995)
• Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (short list 1988)
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison (short list 1987)
• The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner (winner 1977)
• The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty (short list 1973)
• Them, by Joyce Carol Oates (winner 1970)

I have books by the following authors (who I have not yet read) on my shelf:

• Doris Lessing (2007)
• Orhan Pamuk (winner 2006)
• V. S. Naipaul (winner 2001)
• Jose Saramago (winner 1998)
• Naguib Mahfouz (winner 1988)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (winner 1982)
• William Faulkner (winner 1949)
• Hermann Hesse (winner 1946)
• Sigrid Undset (winner 1928)

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