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2016- Prize Winners - COMPLETED1. 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
Ah, good - I'm glad we're doing this one again. I have several in mind I didn't get to last year.
*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)
Kristen wrote: "Would the stonewall award count?"Yes, it counts. It is a legitimate literary award, sponsored by the ALA.
Just thought I'd double check, thanks! :)
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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
Got my first one with Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman. This book won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel 2015
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.
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Rhonda wrote: "Would a book that won an Audie award count? It's an audio book award."Yes, that would count.
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Yes, that would count."
Awesome! I have a particular book in mind. :)
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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)
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)
1. All the Bright Places - 9th May - won the Goodreads Choice Award for YA Fiction 20152. 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
I'm not sure if I can count this or not - Smile - winner of the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.
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!
Finished my second for this with Their Eyes Were Watching God which won the Audie Award for Solo Narration - Female (2001).
And I've got my third for this with Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2014
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
I'll finish this category with number five - this year's National Book Award winner - The Underground Railroad.
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Read up to 5 books that have won a literary award (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Man Booker Award, etc).