Challenges from Exploding Steamboats discussion

Yep, pretty much any award. Pulitzer, Agatha, Nebula, Edgar, Tiptree, Audie, Dilys, whatever. I don't think the Goodreads app shows a book's awards, but if you pull a book up on the site it usually lists any awards it has received. And there are lists all over the place. Feel free to add links to award listings as well as your picks.

I read Neil Gaiman's -The Graveyard Book- which won the Newbury and is a great romp. Also, if you type a book title into Google, over on the sidebar it will list awards.

I loved that book. Listened to this on audiobook read by the author. He is a very good narrator.
Didn't know that about google. Thanks!

Xanthi wrote: "I loved that book. Listened to this on audiobook read by the author. He is a very good narrator.

I just finished listening to the audiobook version of -View From the Cheap Seats- which is a collection of his essays, introductions, etc. It was narrated by him and was really enjoyable. He is, indeed, a very good narrator. I'd love to hear him read one of his fictional pieces (even if I've already read them all).

I recommend Neverwhere, especially if you can get the author's preferred text edition. Gaiman does a lovely job narrating and that's the story that got me hooked on him. For a long time, you couldn't get his preferred text edition in print in the US, so I spot-compared the audio to a US-edition paperback, and there are some remarkable differences. It's like US editors don't trust us to appreciate brilliance.

So far I've read Uprooted and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda for this prompt. I'm really off to a slow start, but I expect that to change soon with some of the reads I have on the TBR list.

I have just read His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet. This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Award 2016 (and was the hot favorite to win). It did win the Saltire Society Literary Award for Fiction Book of the Year 2016.

This is a piece of fiction, but it was well researched. The premise is that the author in researching his family, came across a triple murder committed in the Scottish Highlands in 1869. He researched the murder, pulled together witness statements, an account written by the killer, psychology report, newspaper reports of the trial, and the trial's outcome. It gives good insight into the plight of the Scottish crofters (small holding farmers on rented land) in the Highlands at the time, and all the prejudices against them.

I didn't really want to put the book down once I started reading it, and would recommend it. I especially think anyone interested in Scottish history would find it of interest, keeping in mind, it is fiction.

Here is a link to the Saltire Society Literary Awards: http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/awar...

Mary wrote: "I have just read His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet. This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Award 2016 (and was the hot favorite to win). It did win the Saltire Society Literary Award..."

Mary wrote: "I have just read His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet. This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Award 2016 (and was the hot favorite to win). It did win the Saltire Society Literary Award..."

Wow, that sounds fascinating!

I've read several more award-winning books since my previous post:
The Color Purple
The House of Shattered Wings
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Signal to Noise
Murder in G Major
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
All the Birds in the Sky
The Book Thief
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
The Schwa Was Here
The Ballad of Black Tom

The World Without Us -- oops, only a nominee for multiple awards

But Wildcat Under Glass won the Batchelder

In the Woods (Edgar, Barry, Macavity, and Anthony awards)

Not as good as I was expecting, given all the awards, really.

I'm making my annual list of books and noticed some I didn't realize had been awarded:

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Nonfiction )

Cemetery Girl (Prix Polar International (2013))

I ended up reading at least 2 I know for sure that are award-winning books.

All the Light We Cannot See (Pulitzer Prize Fiction 2015)

Lincoln in the Bardo (The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017)

Here are the rest of the award winners I read last year:
Poe
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
A Game of Thrones
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Girl with Ghost Eyes
Red Glass