Book Awards IV Challenge

January 1 – November 1, 2010

Michelle at 1 More Chapter is once again hosting the Book Awards Challenge. I skipped the 3rd one of these, and I wish I hadn’t as I have a ton of books that meet the requirements of this challenge.

The Goal? Read 10 different books from 10 different awards

1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009 Booker) – COMPLETED February 20, 2010; rated 3/5; read my review.

Here are some possibilities which already reside on my shelves:

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordon (2009 Alex Award)
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (2005 Alex Award)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (2004 Alex Award)
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004 Booker)
• Lisey’s Story by Stephen King (2006 Bram Stoker)
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1994 Commonwealth Writers)
• Small Island by Andrea Levy (2005 Commonwealth Writers, 2004 Novel for Costa Award, 2004 Orange)
• What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (2007 First Novel for Costa Award)
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1993 Governor Generals, 1994 NBCC, 1995 Pulitzer)
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (2008 Hugo, 2007 Nebula)
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2005 IMPAC Dublin, 2003 NBCC, 2004 Pulitzer)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002 Pulitzer)
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000 Pulitzer)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
• The White Earth by Andrew McGahan (2005 Miles Franklin)
• A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (1991 NBCC, 1992 Pulitzer)
• The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973 Pulitzer)
• The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle (2008 Spur)
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (1985 NBCC)
• Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country (2008 National Book Award)
• Three Junes by Julia Glass (2002 National Book Award)
• A book by one of the Nobel Laureates (I have several on my TBR pile)
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne  Michaels (1997 Orange)
• Spell of Winter by Dunmore (1996 Orange)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2002 Orange, 2002 PEN/Faulkner)