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Book Awards 3 Challenge

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Ready to sign up for the third Book Awards Challenge? This one is going to be a little shorter, only 5 months, from July 1 through December 1, 2009.  That is because Book Awards 4 will be from February 1 through December 1, 2010.  Book Awards 3 will be reading 5 books from 5 different awards.  Book Awards 4 will be reading 10 books from 10 different awards, which will be a little more challenging to complete!

I hope you will consider participating in one or both!!

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My own choices:

  • How I Live Now ***1/2 by Meg Rosoff  (Printz)
  • The Optimist’s Daughter *** by Eudora Welty (Pulitzer)
  • Property stars4.gif by Valerie Martin (Orange)
  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Giller)
  • Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Booker)
  • A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold) by Louise Penny (Agatha)
  • Bonus reads:

    A Summons to Memphis ***1/2 by Peter Taylor (Pulitzer)
    The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Pulitzer)
    The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Pulitzer)
    The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Agatha)

    IMPAC Dublin and Independent Foreign Fiction Shortlists

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