Book Awards Reading Challenge

My first reading challenge.

  1. Read 10 award winners from August 1, 2008 through June 1, 2009.
  2. You must have at least FIVE different awards in your ten titles.
  3. Overlaps with other challenges are permitted.
  4. You don’t have to post your choices right away, and your list can change at any time.
  5. ‘Award winners’ is loosely defined; make the challenge fit your needs, keeping in mind Rule #2.
  6. SIGN UP using Mr. Linky below.
  7. Have fun reading!

Right now, I am going to compile a list of possible choices which will be posted in the next few days. Here are my choices!

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (2008 Pulitzer Prize)
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones (2007 Commonwealth’s Writers’ Prize)
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle (1963 Newbery Award)
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang (2007 Printz Award)
American Gods – Neil Gaiman (2002 Hugo Award)
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein (1962 Hugo Award)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick (2008 Children’s Book Sense Award)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party – M.T. Anderson (2006 Young People’s Literature National Book Award)
Atonement – Ian McEwan (2002 National Book Critics’ Circle Award)
Jesus Land: A Memoir – (2006 Alex Award)

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