My Picks
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 by alisonwonderland
I'm alisonwonderland, and I blog about books at So Many Books, So Little Time. I blog about the rest of my life at We're All Mad Here.
This was a hard list for me to create. First, there are just so many possibilities to choose from, and second, because the challenge lasts a whole year, I'm tempted to bite off more than I can chew but I'm forcing myself to be somewhat reasonable (one book a month, for a total of 12). Here's my list:
This was a hard list for me to create. First, there are just so many possibilities to choose from, and second, because the challenge lasts a whole year, I'm tempted to bite off more than I can chew but I'm forcing myself to be somewhat reasonable (one book a month, for a total of 12). Here's my list:
- Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace (Giller Prize 1996)
- Jung Chang - Wild Swans (British Book Award 1994)
- Beverly Cleary - Dear Mr. Henshaw (Newbery 1984)
- Karen Cushman - The Midwife's Apprentice (Newbery 1996)
- John Grogan - Marley & Me (Quill Award in Biography/Memoir 2006)
- E. L. Konigsburg - The View from Saturday (Newbery 1997)
- Yann Martel - Life of Pi (Man Booker Prize 2002)
- Susan Patron - The Higher Power of Lucky (Newbery 2007)
- Louis Sachar - Holes (Newbery 1999)
- Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 1972)
- Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves (British Book Award 2004)
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize in History 1991)
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The Midwive's Tale is VERY interesting - I can't imagine giving birth to my children in those conditions though they seemed to make the best of it. Her insight into the villages was very revealing. A great pick!
Happy Reading!
=) Jill