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message 1: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Another popular challenge from 2015:

Read up to 5 books that have won a literary award (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Man Booker Award, etc).


message 2: by Tawallah (last edited Jun 11, 2016 09:06AM) (new)

Tawallah 2016- Prize Winners - COMPLETED

1. Flowers for Algernon- Nebula 1966
2. Beloved- Pulitzer 1988
3. The Color Purple-Pulitizer 1983/ National Book Award
4. The English Patient- Man Booker 1992/ Governal General's Literary Award 1993
5. The Narrow Road to the Deep North- Man Booker Prize 2014


message 3: by Melki (new)

Melki Ah, good - I'm glad we're doing this one again. I have several in mind I didn't get to last year.


message 4: by Kristen (last edited Apr 26, 2016 02:02AM) (new)

Kristen (kitslittlelibrary) *completed*
Five winners
1) The Martian (Seiun Award)
2) The Outsiders (Margaret Edwards Award)
3) I'll Give You the Sun (Printz award)
4) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Stinewall Award)
5) Every Secret Thing (Barry Award)


message 5: by Kristen (new)

Kristen (kitslittlelibrary) Would the stonewall award count?


message 6: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Kristen wrote: "Would the stonewall award count?"

Yes, it counts. It is a legitimate literary award, sponsored by the ALA.


message 7: by Kristen (new)

Kristen (kitslittlelibrary) Just thought I'd double check, thanks! :)


message 8: by Sam (new)

Sam (ecowitch) | 320 comments Got my first for this with Room which has won a plethera of awards (didn't know so many existed!)


message 9: by Connie (last edited Nov 28, 2016 01:26PM) (new)

Connie Cote | 596 comments Mod
Completed!

My Prize Winners:
1) Us Conductors by Sean Michaels Giller Prize 2014
2)Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler Pulitzer Prize 1989
3)The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pulitzer Prize 1939
4)Room by Emma Donoghue Rogers writers Trust Fiction Prize
5)The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Pulitzer Prize 1994


message 10: by Stephanie (last edited Jan 30, 2016 11:43AM) (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Got my first one with Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman. This book won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel 2015


message 11: by Melki (new)

Melki Though it could also go under Young Adult, I think I'll count The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian here. It won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2007.


message 12: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda | 446 comments Mod
Would a book that won an Audie award count? It's an audio book award.


message 13: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Rhonda wrote: "Would a book that won an Audie award count? It's an audio book award."

Yes, that would count.


message 14: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda | 446 comments Mod
Stephanie wrote: "Rhonda wrote: "Would a book that won an Audie award count? It's an audio book award."

Yes, that would count."


Awesome! I have a particular book in mind. :)


message 15: by Rhonda (last edited Dec 03, 2016 03:28PM) (new)

Rhonda | 446 comments Mod
FINISHED

1. To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee (4/28/16) - Pulitzer Prize - a first time read for me
2. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (7/29/16) - Audie award for science fiction (2012)
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (8/1/16) - Pulitzer Prize (1983)
4. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - Newbery Medal (2010)
5. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (12/3/16) - National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2014)


message 16: by Susan (last edited Jun 19, 2016 10:23PM) (new)

Susan 1. The Silver Pigs (Authors' Club Best First Novel, 1989)
2. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (APSA Woodrow Wilson Award, 2014)
3. The Silkworm (Audie, 2015)
4. Wintersmith (Locus, 2007)
5. The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer, 1921)


message 17: by Martha (last edited Sep 06, 2016 02:59AM) (new)

Martha (marthais) | 101 comments 1. All the Bright Places - 9th May - won the Goodreads Choice Award for YA Fiction 2015
2. The Firebird - 21st May - won the RITA Award by Romance Writers of America for Best Paranormal Romance 2014
3. Northern Lights - 7th July - won the Carnegie Medal in 1995
4. Life of Pi - 1st Sep - won the Man Booker Prize in 2002
5. The Girl on the Train - 5th Sep - won the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller 2015


message 18: by Cathy (new)

Cathy Correa (cathcorr) | 231 comments 1. August: Osage County - Tracy Letts won the Pulitzer prize for drama 2008


message 19: by Melki (new)

Melki Finished Ironweed, which somehow won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize.


message 20: by Melki (new)

Melki I'm not sure if I can count this or not - Smile - winner of the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.


message 21: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Melki wrote: "I'm not sure if I can count this or not - Smile - winner of the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award."

Absolutely, it's a prize winner, and for more than one award!


message 22: by Melki (new)

Melki Finished number four - The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Pulitzer Prize for Novel 1928.


message 23: by Sam (new)

Sam (ecowitch) | 320 comments Finished my second for this with Their Eyes Were Watching God which won the Audie Award for Solo Narration - Female (2001).


message 24: by Sam (new)

Sam (ecowitch) | 320 comments And I've got my third for this with Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2014


message 25: by Martha (new)

Martha (marthais) | 101 comments Complete!

1. All the Bright Places - 9th May - won the Goodreads Choice Award for YA Fiction 2015
2. The Firebird - 21st May - won the RITA Award by Romance Writers of America for Best Paranormal Romance 2014
3. Northern Lights - 7th July - won the Carnegie Medal in 1995
4. Life of Pi - 1st Sep - won the Man Booker Prize in 2002
5. The Girl on the Train - 5th Sep - won the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller 2015


message 26: by Cathy (new)

Cathy Correa (cathcorr) | 231 comments second one

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne winner of the Audie award for classics


message 27: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments This book won the Audie Award for Mystery 2016:

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith


message 28: by Melki (new)

Melki I'll finish this category with number five - this year's National Book Award winner - The Underground Railroad.


message 29: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Another Audie Award winner, Best Fiction 2011:

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell


message 30: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel 2015:

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay


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