Ideas for the Book Awards IV Challenge

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This year I made the Book Awards Challenge quite a bit more difficult by requiring 10 different awards, but it’s okay to cheat a little, too. For instance, I’m mostly interested in the Pulitzer,  Orange, and Booker winners, but I can still find some of those winners on other lists, too. So of course it’s acceptable to use double winners in that manner. For instance Lonesome Dove (a Pulitzer) also won the Spur Award, and Bel Canto (an Orange) also won the PEN/Faulkner. There are other examples below as well. In looking at my list below, I’m really surprised that I have that many titles as possibles for the Nebula. Maybe I need to read more from that award!

Hope everyone has fun attempting this challenge.

Here is what I’m thinking about for the Book Awards IV:

• Anthony Award – She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
• Booker Prize – Disgrace by Coetzee
• Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Andrea Levy, Small Island
  OR Kate Grenville, The Secret River
  OR Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (U.S. title: Someone Knows My Name)
• Costa/Whitbread – Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves
• Edgar – Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
• Giller – Alice Munro,  The Love of a Good Woman
• Hugo – To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• IMPAC – Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down
  OR Rawi Hage, De Niro’s Game
  OR Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums
• James Tait Black – Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
• Kiriyama Prize –  Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• Miles Franklin - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
• NBCC – Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
• Nebula – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
  OR The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
  OR American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  OR Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
  OR Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  OR Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
  OR Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Newbery – Lynne Rae Perkins Criss Cross
• Orange Prize – Home – Robinson
  OR On Beauty – Smith
  OR The Idea of Perfection – Grenville
  OR Larry’s Party – Shields
• PEN/Faulkner - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• PEN/Hemingway – Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
• Printz – Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
  OR Looking for Alaska, John Green
• Pulitzer – Empire Falls – Richard Russo
  OR American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  OR Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
• Spur – Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  OR Tallgrass By Sandra Dallas
  OR The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udal
• World Fantasy Award - Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
  OR Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami