Book Awards II

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:

1. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Alex Awards) – SEPTEMBER
2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Alex Awards) – OCTOBER
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Alex Awards) – OCTOBER
4. B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (Anthony Awards) – NOVEMBER
5. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Nebula Award) – NOVEMBER
6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Alex Awards) – NOVEMBER
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hugo Award) – DECEMBER
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey  Niffenegger (Alex Award) – DECEMBER
9. Stiff by Mary Roach (Alex Award) – DECEMBER
10. Middlesex (Pulitzer) – JANUARY