Book Awards Reading Challenge

OK. I've been slacking! I didn't have a clue which books I wanted to read. There are SO MANY good ones to choose from. So I made a list....and come down to 30! Since there is NO WAY I'd get through 30, I whittled down to 15 (with a couple of alternates! So...here we go!

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921 - Pulitzer)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (2001 Pulitzer)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (1969 Nebula and 1970 Hugo)
• Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2004 Hugo)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Suzannah Clarke (2005 Hugo)
• Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (1990 Booker)
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000 Booker)
• The March by E.L. Doctorow (2006 Pen/Faulkner)
• Boy's Life by Robert McCammon (1991 Bram Stoker)
• Lisey's Story by Stephen King (2006 Bram Stoker)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1995 Giller)
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996 Giller)
• The Chatham School Affair by Thomas Cook (1997 Edgar)
• Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson (2004 Arthur C. Clarke)

ALTERNATES:

• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919 Pulitzer)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981 Pulitzer)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (1962 Hugo)
• Life of Pi by Yann (2002 Booker)
• Runaway by Alice Munroe (2004 Giller)

Yikes. That's a lot of books!! But aren't challenges fun?