Really...this is the last challenge I'm going to join...maybe! lol!! This one takes place over at the Book Awards Reading Challenge blog and the theme is award-winning books. You have a year to complete 12 books and there are prizes! I'm going to throw in one extra book 'cause it's a "skinny" book!
Here's my list:
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall (Spur Novel of the West 2002)
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer Prize 2005)
The Inheritance of Loss-Kiran Desai (NBCC Award 2006)
Eucalyptus- Murray Bail (Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999)
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (Arthur C. Clarke Award 1987)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Man Booker Prize 2002)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin -Louis de Bernières (Commonwealth Writer's Prize 1995)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon(Costa/Whitbread 2003)
Bel Canto - Patchett (Orange Prize 2002)
Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Newberry Award 1947)
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (Pulitzer Prize 1995)
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen - 2007 Alex Award
and
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices - Paul Fleischman (Newberry 1989)
2 comments:
I need to follow suit and start reading again. I use to read constantly. Now when people ask me what is my favorite book, I have a hard time remembering. Read? A book? Huh?
Where did all of my free time go?
I really liked The Stone Diaries.
Welcome to the challenge!
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