Lizzy's Midpoint Progress
Saturday, January 12, 2008 by Lizzy Siddal
18 so far for me. I am loving this challenge! Reading some great books and reducing the TBR - marvellous!
1) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer 1937)
2) Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth (Booker Prize 1990)
3) The Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly (Orange First Novel Award 2006)
4) The Boy and The Sea - Kirsty Gunn (Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year 2007)
5) Consolation - Michael Redhill (Toronto Book Award 2007)
6) Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones (Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007)
7) The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney (Costa Debut Novel and Book of the Year 2006)
8) Joseph Knight - James Robertson (Saltire Book Award 2003)
9) The Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (Whitbread First Novel Award 1989)
10) Foreign Parts - Janice Galloway (McVitie's Prize Scottish Writer of the Year 1994)
11)A Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam - Chris Ewan (Long Barns Book's First Novel Prize 2006)
12) The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt - Wilhelm Genazino (Georg-Buchner Prize 2004)
13) Restless - William Boyd (Costa Novel 2006)
14) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore (Author's Club Award for First Novel 1955)
15) Set In Stone - Linda Newbery (Costa Children's Novel 2006)
16) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell (Good Housekeeping Book of the Year 2007)
18) What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn (Costa Debut Novel 2007)
17) The Bower Bird - Ann Kelley (Costa Children's Novel 2007)
P.S I read this year's Costa Novel of the Year winner before the challenge began. But in case you're wondering what it's like:
Day - A L Kennedy
1) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer 1937)
2) Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth (Booker Prize 1990)
3) The Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly (Orange First Novel Award 2006)
4) The Boy and The Sea - Kirsty Gunn (Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year 2007)
5) Consolation - Michael Redhill (Toronto Book Award 2007)
6) Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones (Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007)
7) The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney (Costa Debut Novel and Book of the Year 2006)
8) Joseph Knight - James Robertson (Saltire Book Award 2003)
9) The Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (Whitbread First Novel Award 1989)
10) Foreign Parts - Janice Galloway (McVitie's Prize Scottish Writer of the Year 1994)
11)A Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam - Chris Ewan (Long Barns Book's First Novel Prize 2006)
12) The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt - Wilhelm Genazino (Georg-Buchner Prize 2004)
13) Restless - William Boyd (Costa Novel 2006)
14) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore (Author's Club Award for First Novel 1955)
15) Set In Stone - Linda Newbery (Costa Children's Novel 2006)
16) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell (Good Housekeeping Book of the Year 2007)
18) What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn (Costa Debut Novel 2007)
17) The Bower Bird - Ann Kelley (Costa Children's Novel 2007)
P.S I read this year's Costa Novel of the Year winner before the challenge began. But in case you're wondering what it's like:
Day - A L Kennedy
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