Dates: August 1st, 2008 through June 1st, 2009
Host: 3M
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The challenge (put simply): Read 10 award winners. Must encompass winners from at least 5 different awards.
My list of possibles:
*The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (Arthur C. Clarke Award 1997)
*Lisey's Story by Stephen King (Bram Stoker Award 2006)
*lost boy, lost girl by Peter Straub (Bram Stoker Award 2003)
*Bag of Bones by Stephen King (Bram Stoker Award 1998)
*Fax From Sarajevo by Joe Kubert (Eisner Award: Best Graphic Album 1997)
*A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Carnegie Medal 2003)
*The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (Carnegie Medal 2001)
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Costa/Whitbread 2003 and Alex Award 2004)
*Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Hugo Award 1987 and Nebula Award 1986)
*The Road by Cormac McCarthy (James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2006 and Pulitzer Prize 2007)
*Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (Nebula Award 2000)
*Dune by Frank Herbert (Nebula Award 1965 and Hugo Award 1966)
*The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Newbery Award 1979)
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Newbery Award 1959)
*The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Christopher Award 2007)
*American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Printz Award 2007)
*Looking for Alaska by John Green (Printz Award 2006)
*How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Printz Award 2005)
*The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Pulitzer Prize 1975)
*All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Pulitzer Prize 1947)
*A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Royal Society Prize 2004)
*Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (World Fantasy Award 2005 and Hugo Award 2005)
*The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (Alex Awards 2007)
*The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Alex Awards 2007)
*Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Alex Awards 2006)
*Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Alex Awards 2006)
*The Class Castle by Jeannette Walls (Alex Awards 2006)
*Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan (Alex Awards 2005)
*The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Alex Award 2004)
*Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (Alex Award 2003)
*Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (Alex Award 2002)
*Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Alex Award 2000)
*The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007)
*The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (Pulitzer Prize 2007)
*What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Costa First Novel Award 2007)
