CanadianKiwi's Book Awards Challenge List
Monday, June 4, 2007 by CanadianKiwi
I have decided to read only books in this challenge that I own. I am amazed at the number of books in our personal library that are Award Winners. My alternates are ones that I do not have to own. I will be visiting the library for those.
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (British Book Award)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (Costa/Whitbread; Orange Prize)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Newbery)
Holes by Louis Sachar (Newbery)
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (Newbery)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Nobel, 1962)
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Newbery)
Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson (Governor's General Award & Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award)
Days of Terror by Barbara Smucker (Ruth Schwartz Foundation Award & Canada Council Children's Literary Award)
The Voyages of Dr Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Newbery)
Alternates
Rudyard Kipling (Nobel, 1907)
Pearl S. Buck (Nobel, 1938)
Island of the Blue DolphinsI by Scott O'Dell (Newbery)
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Newbery)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Newbery)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (Newbery)
One Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (National Book Critics' Circle Award)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Governor General's Award)
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