Book Awards Reading Challenge

I’ve only recently discovered Kinsey Millhone, and while I’m very late to do so, its true what they say - better late, than never. This is a series that I will continue to follow.

For anyone else who is unfamiliar with Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, these soft-boiled mysteries follow Kinsey Millhone, a 30-something, no-nonsense, one-time cop turned PI as she navigates herself through one case after another.

You can read my reviews, here

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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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My list for the challenge is:

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - 1997 Pulitzer (Biography/Autobiography)
B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton - 1986 Anthony
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly - 1992 Edgar Award (First Novel)
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak - 2007 Book Sense (Children's Lit)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - 2001 National Book Award
Eldest by Christopher Paolini - 2006 Quill Awards (Young Adult/Teen)
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald - 1997 Commonwealth Writers (First Book)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 2007 Pulitzer (Fiction)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - 1990 Newbery Award
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 1962 Nobel Prize
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 2004 Prix Renaudot
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - 2007 Alex Award