3M is hosting this again, I signed up last year then had loads of problems getting internet access in my new place so I'm going to try again this time. The aim is to read 10 award winners over 10 months, the books must come from at least 5 different awards. This will run from August 1 2008 till June 1 2009.
I'm just coming up with a list of possibilites at the moment:
1. The Gathering by Anne Enright - Booker (2007)
2. The Sea by John Banville - Booker (2005)
3. The Famished Road by Ben Okri - Booker (1991)
4. Wild Swans - Chang - British Book Award (1994)
5. Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy - Commonwealth Writers' Prize (1994)
6. Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang -Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2001)
7. Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish - Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2002)
8. Andrea Levy, Small Island -Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2005) Costa (2004)
9. Charles Frazier Cold Mountain - National Book Award (1997)
10. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson - Pulitzer (2005)
Alternatives/Extras
1. Fugitive Pieces - Michaels - Orange (1997)
2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - World Fantasy Award (2006)
3. Alice Munro — Runaway -Giller Prize (2004)
4.Mal Peet, Tamar -Carnegie 2005
5. Mary Norton, The Borrowers - Carnegie 1952
6. Spell of Winter - Dunmore -Orange 1996
7. The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman - Pulitzer
8. Sunshine, Robin McKinley (Mythopoeic)
9. The Fair Folk, Marvin Kaye, World Fantasy
10. The Hours, Cunningham
2 comments:
Moon Tiger, Small Island and Gilead almost all made it onto my list but there were too many to pick from!! I hope you reading experience is a great one. :)
*smiles*
Kim
(page after page)
The only one on your list I've read is The Gathering, and I liked it.
You'll do it this year!
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