I’m going to continue to add to this list until the challenge ends, but I thought I’d go ahead and mark this challenge complete so I can concentrate on the other challenges I am participating in. I had a blast doing this one, and I am very happy that I read books representing 17 different awards. There is some overlap due to some books receiving more than one award.
- Bellweather Prize: 1
- Booker Prize: 2
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book: 1
- Costa: 1
- Eisner: 1
- Glass Key Award: 1
- Governor General, Drama: 1
- Hugo: 1
- IMPAC Dublin: 1
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: 1
- Nebula: 1
- Newbery: 5
- Nobel laureates: 6
- Noma: 1
- Orange Prize: 1
- Pen/Faulkner: 1
- Spur: 1
The books I read:
- The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (Spur)
- Hotel du Lac by Brookner (Booker)
- Blankets by Craig Thompson (Eisner)
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Anne-Marie MacDonald (Governor General – Drama)
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Glass Key Award)
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Booker)
- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Newbery)
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (IMPAC Dublin, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
- Purple Hibiscus by Adichie (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book)
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (Bellwether Prize)
- Ender s Game by Orson Scott Card (Hugo, Nebula)
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Nobel laureate)
- Kristin Lavransdatter 2: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (Nobel laureate)
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (Nobel laureate)
- Thousand Cranes by Yasanuri Kawabata (Nobel laureate)
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (Orange Prize)
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Newbery Prize)
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Costa)
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (PEN/Faulkner)
- So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (Noma)
- A Tale of Two Gardens by Octavio Paz (Nobel laureate)
- Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Newbery)
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Newbery)
- Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery)
- The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Newbery)
- Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Nobel laureate)
