The Book Vipers discussion

Let us know what you are going to be reading for the challenge here

My book list:

Fiction Prize Winner The White Tiger
Non-Fiction Winner Underland
Poetry Prize Winner Brand New Ancients
Crime (fiction on non winner) The Dry
History (fiction on non winner) Days Without End
Debut Prize Winner Before I Go to Sleep
Female Prize Winner May We Be Forgiven
Any Shortlisted Book The Lost Words
Any Shortlisted Book The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
Natural History Prize Winner The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
Children's/YA Winner Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Any Shortlisted Book Water Shall Refuse Them
Any BAME Longlist Book
Any Shortlisted Book The Salt Path
Memoir/Autobio Winner The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner A Horse Walks into a Bar
Any Longlisted Book Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
Science Fiction or Non winner The City & the City
A Nobel Prize Winners Book Night
Any Longlisted Book Hag-Seed
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men

What is the challenge?

I'm planning to read 18 books in 2019.
-- At least 9 of them must be in German
-- At least 3 of them must be about or related to the history of Morocco
-- At least 3 of them must be about developing my lifestyle and health
-- 3 manga comics are allowed but no more.

Jazzy wrote: "What is the challenge?"

Will be announced on the 28th, Jazzy

V keen Jason! Thanks Paul, looking forward to signing up and taking part.

Aiming for 21...

Fiction Prize Winner Bring Up the Bodies (Booker Prize Winner 2012) READ
Non-Fiction Winner The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (Samuel Johnson Winner 2008) READ
Poetry Prize Winner Birthday Letters (T S Eliot Prize 1998) READ
Crime (Fiction or Non Fiction) Winner The Axeman's Jazz (CWA New Blood Dagger Winner 2014) READ
History (Fiction or Non Fiction) Winner Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy (Wolfson History Prize 2013) READ
Debut Prize Winner The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Costa First Novel 2018) READ
Female Prize Winner Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Women's Prize for Fiction 2018) READ
Any Shortlisted Book Real Tigers (CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel shortlist 2016) READ
Any Shortlisted Book A Fine Balance (Booker shortlist 1996) READ
Natural History Prize Winner The Outrun (Wainwright Prize 2016) READ
Children's/YA Winner The Witches (Whitbread Award for Children's Novel 1983) READ
Any Shortlisted Book This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017) READ
Any BAME Longlisted Book Another Day in the Death of America (Jhalak Prize 2017) READ
Any Shortlisted Book Alias Grace (Orange Prize for Fiction 1997) READ
Memoir/Autobiography Winner Negroland: A Memoir (National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography 2015) READ
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner Flights (Man Booker International 2018) READ
Any Longlisted Book Kindred (Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 1980) READ
Science (Fiction or Non Fiction) Winner The Underground Railroad (Arthur C. Clarke award 2017) READ
Nobel Prize Winner's Book Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize for Literature 1988) READ
Any Longlisted Book The Strangler Vine (Women's Prize for Fiction 2014) READ
Travel (Fiction or Non Fiction) Winner The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot (Dolman Best Travel Book 2013) READ

Fiction Prize Winner - The Passion of Artemisia. Susan Vreeland
Non-Fiction Winner - Eat,pray,love. Elizabeth Gilbert
Poetry Prize Winner - Assurances. J.O.Morgan
Crime (fiction on non winner) - Sidetracked. Henning Mankell.
History (fiction on non winner) - Warlight. Michael Ondaatje
Debut Prize Winner - Everything under. Daisy Johnson
Female Prize Winner - The afterlife of Walter Augustus. Hannah. M. Lynn
Any Shortlisted Book - Wilding. Isabella Tree
Any Shortlisted Book - Exit West. Mohsin Hamid
Natural History Prize Winner - The wild places. Robert Macfarlane
Children's/YA Winner - Mockingjay. Suzanne Collins
Any Shortlisted Book - Oryx and Crake. Margaret Atwood.
Any BAME Longlist Book - The tenderness of Wolves. Stef Penney
Any Shortlisted Book - crucifixion creek. Barry Maitland
Memoir/Autobio Winner - Dadland. Keggie Carew
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner - The Frozen woman. Jon Michelet
Any Longlisted Book - Melmoth. Sarah Perry
Science Fiction or Non winner - The beautiful cure. Daniel M Davis.
A Nobel Prize Winners Book - The old man and the sea. Ernest Hemingway
Any Longlisted Book - The Green Road. Anne Enright
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner - What is the what. Dave Eggers

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For those trying to link to the challenge from Paul’s message, if you are in the app unfortunately the shortcomings of the app means it doesn’t work! Works fine main web page.

I'm looking forward to this challenge and seeing what everyone else is reading! Here is my list:

Fiction Prize Winner - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Non-Fiction Winner - What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018 Great Lakes Great Read Non-Fiction Award)
Poetry Prize Winner
Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner
Debut Prize Winner - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014 Debut Book of the Year, British Book Awards)
Female Prize Winner - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (2019 Women's Prize for Fiction)
Any Shortlisted Book - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century)
Any Shortlisted Book - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Finalist for 1999 Pulitzer Prize in fiction)
Natural History Prize Winner - Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush(2018 Natural History Literature Award, National Outdoor Book Awards)
Children's/YA Winner - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (2015 Printz Award)
Any Shortlisted Book - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Finalist, National Book Awards 2018 for Fiction)
Any BAME Longlisted Book
Any Shortlisted Book - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Shortlist, Women's Prize for Fiction 2019)
Memoir/Autobio Winner - Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (2014 PEN Ackerley Prize)
Translated Fiction/Non-Fiction Winner - The Door by Magda Szabó, translated by Len Rix (2006 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize)
Any Longlisted Book - Educated by Tara Westover (Longlisted for 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal)
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award)
A Nobel Prize Winner's Book - Runaway by Alice Munro (Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Any Longlisted Book - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019 Booker Prize for Fiction)
Travel Fiction or Non-fiction Winner - Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova (2018 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year)

Read: 17/21

I don't think I will be doing all this Challenge this year due to the fact that I've spent about 6 hrs so far looking for books and I wasn't planning on buying a lot of books this year (I wanted to slot in books I already owned) and a few of the categories are difficult for me. I will read what I can. :) Aiming for 14/21.

My Books for the 2019 Challenge:

Fiction Prize Winner The Luminaries
Non-Fiction Winner H is for Hawk *READ* 16.01.2019
Poetry Prize Winner NOT READING
Crime FICTION (fiction or non-fiction winner) Fox Evil
History FICTION (fiction or non-fiction winner) Oscar and Lucinda
Debut Prize Winner The Loney
Female Prize Winner NOT READING
Any Shortlisted Book Alias Grace
Any Shortlisted Book Atonement
Natural History Prize Winner NOT READING
Children's/YA Winner Wicked Lovely
Any Shortlisted Book The Driver's Seat *READ* 05.10.2019
Any BAME Longlist Book NOT READING
Any Shortlisted Book The Accidental
Memoir/Autobiography Winner NOT READING
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner NOT READING
Any Longlisted Book The Blue Tango
Science FICTION (Fiction or Non-Fiction - Science Facts!) winner American Gods
A Nobel Prize Winners Book The Old Man and the Sea *READ* 03.10.2019
Any Longlisted Book The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Travel Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner NOT READING

GOING TO READ 14/21

I will edit to my exact editions of books as I go along. And I will edit what awards they won, etc also.

03/14

My list

Fiction Prize Winner:

Non-Fiction Prize Winner:
Poetry Prize Winner:

Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner:
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner:
Debut Prize Winner:

Female Prize Winner:
Any Shortlisted Book: Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner by Maria Navarro Skaranger. Shortlisted Tarjei Vesaas debutantpris 2015.
Any Shortlisted Book:
Natural History Prize Winner:

Children's/YA Prize Winner: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire. Alex Award 2018.
Any Shortlisted Book:
Any BAME Longlisted Book:
Any Shortlisted Book:
Memoir/Autobiography Prize Winner:

Translated Fiction/Non-Fiction Prize Winner:
Any Longlisted Book: The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh. Longlisted Man Booker 2018.
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner:
A Nobel Prize Winner's Book:
Any Longlisted Book:
Travel Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner:

My brain already hurts trying to figure out books I want to read for this challenge! Trying to use books I have on my shelves and ones I can get from the library! I think this list may be changed along the way! And can't wait to see what others come up with! good luck everyone!

Fiction Prize Winner - Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Non-Fiction Winner - H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Poetry Prize Winner - Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
Crime (fiction on non winner) -
History (fiction on non winner) -
Debut Prize Winner - The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
Female Prize Winner - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Any Shortlisted Book - The Clocks in this House by Xan Brooks
Any Shortlisted Book - Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Natural History Prize Winner - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte
Children's/YA Winner - The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan
Any Shortlisted Book - Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Any BAME Longlist Book - The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Any Shortlisted Book - The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Memoir/Autobio Winner -
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner -
Any Longlisted Book -
Science Fiction or Non winner
A Nobel Prize Winners Book - Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Any Longlisted Book -
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner -

Award Winner Challenge 2019

Books read: 5/19

✅Fiction Prize Winner:
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
National Book Award for Fiction (1938), Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century (2000)

Non-Fiction Prize Winner

✅ Poetry Prize Winner
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Emily Dickinson First Book Award is designed to recognise an American poet of at least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection of poetry.

✅ Crime (Fiction or Non Fiction) Winner:
4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
To honour her many literary works, Agatha Christie was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club.

History (Fiction or Non Fiction) Winner
The Drink And Dream Teahouse - Justin Hill
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2003), Betty Trask Award (2001)

Debut Prize Winner
The Axeman's Jazz - Ray Celestin
CWA New Blood Dagger (2014), ITW Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2015)

Any Shortlisted Book
The Book of Aron - Jim Shepard
Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2016), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2015)

Any Shortlisted Book
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
British Book Award for Book of the Year (2017), Costa Book Award Nominee for Novel (2016), Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2017)
Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017), Waterstones Book of the Year (2016), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2018), RSL Encore Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017), HWA Endeavour Ink Gold Crown Nominee for Shortlist (2017)

Natural History Prize Winner

Children's/YA Winner

Any Shortlisted Book
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
Man Booker Prize (2014), Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2014), Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction (2014), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year (2014), Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)
The Athens Prize for Literature - Περιοδικό (δέ)κατα (2016), Prix Relay des Voyageurs Nominee (2016), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Queensland Literary Awards for Fiction Book (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2014), International DUBLIN Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015)

Any Shortlisted Book

Memoir/Autobiography Winner

Translated Fiction/Non-Fiction Winner

✅ Any Long-listed Book
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel of the Century (2000)

Science (Fiction or Non-Fiction) Winner

Nobel Prize Winner's Book:
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Any Long-listed Book

✅ Travel (Fiction or Non-Fiction) Winner
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Little Prince Literary Award for Persian fiction by writers under the age of 15, commemorating the title of Saint-Exupéry's famous work, was created in Iran by the Cheragh-e Motale'eh Literary Foundation.

Books read: 18 of 20

I’ve added (mostly previously unread) books from my shelves to the challenge categories, but of course some will change as 2019 turns up more possibilities.

01 READ FICTION - Carlos Maria Dominguez (Argentine/Uruguay) The Paper House, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
Foundación Lolita Rubial (Uruguay) winner 2005
02 READ NON FICTION - Patrick McGuinness Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
Duff Cooper Prize winner 2014, & Wales Book of the Year winner 2015, & James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlist 2015, & PEN Ackerley Prize Shortlist 2015, & Thwaites Wainwright Prize Longlist 2014
03 READ POETRY - Jane Clarke The River
Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry winner 2016, RSL Ondaatje Prize Shortlist 2016
04 READ CRIME (FICTION) - Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Man Booker International Prize Shortlist 2019, & Transatlantyk Award 2018 winner, translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones
05 READ HISTORY - Svetlana Alexievich (Nobel Laureate 2015) Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future, translated from the Russian by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 1998, & National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction 2005
06 READ DEBUT (POETRY) - Niall Campbell Moontide
Saltire First Book Award winner 2014, & Edwin Morgan Poetry Award winner 2014, & Forward Prize for Best First Collection Shortlist 2014, Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2014, & Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlist 2015
Female Prize Winner - I’m skipping this one ... there are plenty of female prize winners elsewhere in this list. Also, see my footnote.
07 READ SHORTLISTED (TRAVEL/MEMOIR) - Andrew Grieg At the Loch of the Green Corrie
Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year (Non-fiction) Shortlist 2011, & Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award Shortlist 2010
08 READ SHORTLISTED (POETRY/translation) - Matthew Francis The Mabinogi
The Roland Mathias Poetry Award Shortlist 2018
09 READ NATURAL HISTORY (POETRY) - Kathleen Jamie The Tree House
Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection) 2004 & T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry nominee 2004
10 READ SHORTLISTED (ESSAYS) - Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlist 2012
11 READ SHORTLISTED (POETRY) - Roger Robinson A Portable Paradise
The T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2019
12 READ CHILDRENS’ - Jon Klassen I Want My Hat Back
E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books winner 2012 READ with my toddler grandson 28.12.18
Any BAME Longlisted Book - I’m skipping this one too ... categorising books is fine but I’m uncomfortable categorising authors.
13 READ MEMOIR - Elizabeth Tova Bailey The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Nonfiction winner 2012 & John Burroughs Medal winner 2011
14 READ TRANSLATED (FICTION) - Edgardo Franzosini (Italy) The Animal Gazer, translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore
From the cover: “… won two distinguished Italian literary awards in 2016, the Premio Comisso and the Premio Dessi.”
15a READ LONGLISTED (TRAVEL/MEMOIR) - Emmanuel Iduma A Stranger's Pose
The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Longlist 2019
AND
15b READ LONGLISTED (FICTION) Pedro Mairal The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
BTBA Best Translated Book Award (Fiction) Longlist 2014
16 READ SCIENCE - Brad Watson Miss Jane
National Book Award Fiction Shortlist 2016, & Wellcome Book Prize Longlist 2017 (slight cheat as only longlisted for a science prize)
17 READ NOBEL WINNER (FICTION) - JM Coetzee (Nobel Laureate 2003) The Lives of Animals
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered at Princeton University, October 15 & 16, 1977
18 READ LONGLISTED (TRAVEL/MEMOIR) - Robert Macfarlane & Dan Richards, illustrated by Stanley Donwood Holloway
The Wainwright Golden Beer Prize Longlist 2014
19 READ TRAVEL (FICTION) - Charif Majdalani Moving the Palace, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin

Re. ‘Female Prize Winner’, in my view Charlotte Bronte nailed it - “To you I am neither Man nor Woman — I come before you as an Author only — it is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.”
See https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/bo...

Annie wrote: "Re. ‘Female Prize Winner’, Charlotte Bronte nailed it - “To you I am neither Man nor Woman — I come before you as an Author only — it is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.”"

Very true and I feel the same.

Jazzy wrote: "Very true and I feel the same."

So pleased I’m not the only one.

I’m thinking similar thoughts about the BAME category too.

Annie wrote: "Female Prize Winner - I’m skipping this one. There are plenty of female prize winners elsewhere in this list. Also, see my footnote.

‘Female Prize Winner’, Charlotte Bronte nailed it - “To you I am neither Man nor Woman — I come before you as an Author only — it is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.”

Fair enough, Annie.

My List below. Will be added to later on too

Fiction Prize Winner - Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Non-Fiction Winner -
Poetry Prize Winner - Assurances by J.O. Morgan
Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
Debut Prize Winner - Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
Female Prize Winner - On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Any Shortlisted Book - Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott
Any Shortlisted Book - The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas READ
Natural History Prize Winner - Wainwright Prize Winner
Children's / YA Winner - The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Any Shortlisted Book -
Any BAME Longlisted Book - In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Any Shortlisted Book -
Memoir / Autobiography Winner - In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott
Translated Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner -
Any Longlisted Book -
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
A Nobel Prize Winners Book The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing OR Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
Any Longlisted Book - Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Travel Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner Hunting Mr Heartbreak: A Discovery of America by Jonathan Raban OR City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple

Annie wrote: "Jazzy wrote: "Very true and I feel the same."

So pleased I’m not the only one.

I’m thinking similar thoughts about the BAME category too."

I'm taking this as meaning a Women's Prize for Fiction winner (ie a specific award) rather than a general category for women. Likewise the BAME - the Jhalek Prize etc. The Guardian reported this week that of the UK's 100 bestselling books of 2018, only 35 were by women, and 2 by BAME writers. So I reckon the categories are valid, in context. But each to their own, of course! ☺️

My little list, minus two categories I definitely won't get to:

Fiction Prize Winner: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer 2011) READ
Non-Fiction Winner - This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay (Winner: Non Fiction, Books are my Bag Awards 2018) READ
Crime (fiction or non-fiction winner) – Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson (CWA New Blood Dagger/CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Nominee 2011) – READ
History (fiction or non-fiction winner) – The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (GoodReads Choice nominee for Historical Fiction) – READING
Female Prize Winner - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Women's Prize for Fiction Winner 2018) READ
Any Shortlisted Book - My Sister, the Serial Killer- Oyinkan Braithwaite (Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 shortlist) – READ
Children's/YA Winner – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (Children's Book Award 2001. Also won the Hugo that year – who knew?!) READ
Any Shortlisted Book – Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (New Writer of the Year, Galaxy National Book Awards 2012/Crimefest Award 2012) READ
Any Shortlisted Book - Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (Shirley Jackson Award finalist 2010) READ
Any Longlisted Book – Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling et al (Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2018)) – READ
Any Longlisted Book – Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction long list 2005) – READ

Poetry Prize Winner –
A Nobel Prize Winner's Book –
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction (Science Facts!) winner –
Memoir/Autobiography Winner –
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner –
Debut Prize Winner –
Any BAME Longlist Book –
Any Shortlisted Book –

Lisa wrote: “I'm taking this as meaning a Women's Prize for Fiction winner (ie a specific award) rather than a general category for women. Likewise the BAME - the Jhalek Prize etc. The Guardian reported this week that of the UK's 100 bestselling books of 2018, only 35 were by women, and 2 by BAME writers. So I reckon the categories are valid, in context. But each to their own, of course!”

I completely agree, the diversity deficit in publishing is shameful. But, as outlined in the piece I linked to, there is disagreement regarding the best way to address this and I’m among those who remain unconvinced by the value of ‘women only’ or ‘people of colour only’ prizes.

But as you say, each to their own :)

Tough Challenge for me this year. Will be slow going the first half of the year due to me getting married in February (so much to do!) and our honeymoon in April.

I'll try for 10 books.

Fiction Prize Winner - Snow Falling on Cedars - PEN/Faulkner Winner 1995
Non-Fiction Winner - Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 - Pulitzer Prize 2005
Poetry Prize Winner
Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner
Debut Prize Winner - Heart-Shaped Box - Bram Stoker Award for First Novel 2007
Female Prize Winner
Any Shortlisted Book - The Snow Child - Pulitzer Finalist 2013
Any Shortlisted Book - Mystic River - Hammett Prize Finalist 2001
Natural History Prize Winner
Children's/YA Winner - Holes - National Book Award 1998
Any Shortlisted Book
Any BAME Longlisted Book
Any Shortlisted Book
Memoir/Autobio Winner - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - Pulitzer Prize 2013
Translated Fiction/Non-Fiction Winner
Any Longlisted Book
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner
A Nobel Prize Winner's Book - Love in the Time of Cholera - Nobel Prize Winning Author
Any Longlisted Book
Travel Fiction or Non-fiction Winner - Annapurna - National Outdoor Book Award Winner Classic 2010

Many congratulations, Gidget!

Fiction Prize Winner
Non-Fiction Winner
Poetry Prize Winner
**Crime (fiction on non fiction) IQ by Joe Ide (Anthony Award 2017) 1/5
History (fiction on non fiction)
Debut Prize Winner
Female Prize Winner
Any Shortlisted Book
Any Shortlisted Book
Natural History Prize Winner
Children's/YA Winner
Any Shortlisted Book
Any BAME Longlist Book
Any Shortlisted Book
Memoir/Autobio Winner
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner
**Any Longlisted Book - Chemistry by Weike Wang1/1 (Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Longlist 2018)
Science Fiction or non fiction
A Nobel Prize Winners Book
Any Longlisted Book
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner

Lisa wrote: "Annie wrote: "Jazzy wrote: "Very true and I feel the same."

So pleased I’m not the only one.

I’m thinking similar thoughts about the BAME category too."

I'm taking this as meaning a Women's Priz..."

I don't know what BAME means :)

It is Black, Asian, and minority ethnic, Jazzy

Huh - I hate all the ManBooker winners I've ever read (as far as I can recall - too many white men feeling stuck, doing nothing and feeling sorry for themselves, because they can't pull themselves together - unfortunately makes me want to kill the main character...), however I usually enjoy the Nobel Prize Winners, so I will give this a go, but skip some categories (incl. YA, and I suspect Poetry - but let's see).
Note to self: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Not sure about the categories yet...
19 read in total

Gay Prize winner Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala - Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2019)
Fiction Prize Winner Ar by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Nordic Council Literature Prize 2018.
Non-Fiction Winner All That Remains: A Life in Death Saltire Society Literary Award for Book of the Year (2018)
Crime Transcription - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2018)
History The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney - The McIlvanney Prize 2018 (best Scottish Crime book of the year).
Debut Prize Winner Killing Floor by Lee Child - Barry Award for Best First Novel 1998.
Female Prize Winner Eve out of Her Ruins - Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie (2006)
Any Shortlisted Book Lethal White by Robert Galbraith - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2018)
Any Shortlisted Book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis - Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2017)
Children's/YA Winner Coraline by Neil Gaiman (all the prizes!)
Any Shortlisted Book My Year of Rest and Relaxation Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2019).
Any Shortlisted Book Men Explain Things to Me Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
Memoir/Autobio Winner Mit halve liv by Anita Furu - Bogforums Debutantpris 2018.
Translated Fiction Winner The Great Passage 本屋大賞 for 1st place (2012) (No idea what the prize is, Japanese.)
Any Longlisted Book The Long Drop (winner too)
Science Fiction Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess by Juli Zeh. The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2012)
A Nobel Prize Winners Book Rejsende by Olga Tokarczuk
Any Longlisted Book: Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar
BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2009)
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2017) (Migration is a kind of travel!)

I'd like to join, will post my list when I've had a chance to check some awards and see if any of then match up to my already massive TBR tower. I'm just about to finish This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor so can tick off either debut or biography already.

Fiction Prize Winner
Non-Fiction Winner
Poetry Prize Winner
Crime (fiction on non winner)
History (fiction on non winner)
Debut Prize Winner
Female Prize Winner
Any Shortlisted Book
Any Shortlisted Book
Natural History Prize Winner
Children's/YA Winner
Any Shortlisted Book
Any BAME Longlist Book
Any Shortlisted Book
Memoir/Autobio Winner
Translated Fiction/Non Fiction Winner
Any Longlisted Book
Science Fiction or Non winner
A Nobel Prize Winners Book
Any Longlisted Book
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner

My book list:

Fiction Prize Winner The Tenderness of Wolves - READ
Non-Fiction Winner
Poetry Prize Winner
Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner All the Light We Cannot See
Debut Prize Winner The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Female Prize Winner
Any Shortlisted Book A Gentleman in Moscow
Any Shortlisted Book Becoming
Natural History Prize Winner
Children's/YA WinnerThe Sleeper and the Spindle
Any Shortlisted Book
Any BAME Longlisted Book
Any Shortlisted Book
Memoir/Autobio Winner Educated
Translated Fiction/Non-Fiction Winner
Any Longlisted Book
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
A Nobel Prize Winner's Book
Any Longlisted Book
Travel Fiction or Non-fiction Winner

Looking to make 18 of these categories if I can. Handily my first book of 2019 ticks off the SF category, as it's not a genre I read often. Great challenge as usual Paul.

Fiction Prize Winner: Normal People by Sally Rooney (Costa Novel winner)

Non-Fiction Prize Winner: Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga (PEN - Hessell Tiltman)
Poetry Prize Winner:

Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner: Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People by Julia Boyd (LA Times Prize)
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens (Caroline Bancroft History Prize)
Debut Prize Winner: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (Whiting Award)

Female Prize Winner: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (First female winner of the Booker)
Any Shortlisted Book: A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (Booker shortlisted)
Any Shortlisted Book: Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh (International Booker)
Natural History Prize Winner:

Children's/YA Prize Winner:
Any Shortlisted Book: The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (Booker shortlisted)
Any BAME Longlisted Book:
Any Shortlisted Book: Circe by Madeline Miller (Women's Fiction Prize)
Memoir/Autobiography Prize Winner:

Translated Fiction/Non-Fiction Prize Winner: A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman (International Booker)
Any Longlisted Book: The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming (Baillie-Gifford)
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Nebula Award)
A Nobel Prize Winner's Book:
Any Longlisted Book: A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism by Caroline Moorehead (Baillie-Gifford)
Travel Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner:

Richard wrote: "Looking to make 18 of these categories if I can. Handily my first book of 2019 ticks off the SF category, as it's not a genre I read often. Great challenge as usual Paul..."

Thank you, Richard

Paul wrote: "It is Black, Asian, and minority ethnic, Jazzy"

No, i'm not comfortable with that either so removed it from my list.

Also I won't fill in that bookshelf thing because I don't like it. But I AM doing the challenge, thanks Paul!

Wonderful! I'm going to aim for six books. I'm still suffering from PTBPS (post-traumatic Booker prize syndrome) after reading The Luminaries several years ago. Still, I do need to read more widely, so challenge partially accepted!

I loved The lumineries. However Booker is usually awful.

Pat wrote: "I loved The lumineries. However Booker is usually awful."

Pat - I did as well, though yes, other experiences less enjoyable (given up in other words and now don't bother!)

This is why I suggested the award winners, cos so many have been bad in the past in my opinion that it must be worth looking deeper as they must have got some right in the past.

And why I didn't have booker as a specific selection too.

Ahaha so glad I am not the only one hating the boring Booker winners :) Thank you all for that!
I've updated msg 28 today - have read these 7 Prize winners so far:
Fiction Prize Winner Ar by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Nordic Council Literature Prize 2018.
History The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney - The McIlvanney Prize 2018 (best Scottish Crime book of the year).
Debut Prize Winner Killing Floor by Lee Child - Barry Award for Best First Novel 1998.
Translated Fiction Winner The Great Passage 本屋大賞 for 1st place (2012) (No idea what the prize is, Japanese.)
Science Fiction Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess by Juli Zeh. The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2012)
Any Longlisted Book: Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar
BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2009)
Travel Fiction or non Prize Winner Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2017) (Migration is a kind of travel!)

I really recommend the first one, it's been translated into English as Hotel Silence - if anyone is looking for a nordic prize winner (Icelandic). While I'm at it let me recommend the Finnish/Estonian winner from 2010 Purge by Sofi Oksanen

Actually just looked up on Wikipedia and have read about 20+ Booker prize winners. Liked about 15+. I didn’t know they were Bookers! So I’m wrong I guess. Strangely the winners by a particular author were not always my favourite by that author, in fact often my least favourite, even if I generally like that author eg Iris Murdoch.

I tend to find with Booker prize ones that they are either really good or dreadful. There are a lot of other prizes out there that are much better though.

You're right, Pat! I've just googled and had no idea that half of those were Booker winners/shortlisted when I read them. I haven't really fancied the winners in recent years; the last one I read was Sense of an Ending, although I really should take on the Hilary Mantels again (abandoned Wolf Hall as I couldn't focus on it due to very small children at the time).

I've read quite a few of the shortlisted – there have been some brilliant books over the years. For example, The Sisters Brothers, which I only read because of this group and would usually not be my genre at all, was FAB.

Latest list of books below:

Fiction Prize Winner - Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Non-Fiction Winner -
Poetry Prize Winner - Assurances by J.O. Morgan READ
Crime Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding
History Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
Debut Prize Winner - Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
Female Prize Winner - On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Any Shortlisted Book - Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott READ
Any Shortlisted Book - The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas READ
Natural History Prize Winner - Wainwright Prize Winner
Children's / YA Winner - The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Any Shortlisted Book -
Any BAME Longlisted Book - In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne READ
Any Shortlisted Book -
Memoir / Autobiography Winner - In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott
Translated Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner -
Any Longlisted Book -
Science Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
A Nobel Prize Winners Book The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing OR Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
Any Longlisted Book - Sight by Jessie Greengrass READ
Travel Fiction or Non-Fiction Prize Winner Hunting Mr Heartbreak: A Discovery of America by Jonathan Raban OR City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple

Finished! My final list can be found above in Post #7.

Good job Pamela! I've read none of the same books, but may add Flights as my Nobel Prize winner (newly minted!).

I've completed 18, list in Message 28 (incl. YA to my own surprise) - I'll add a Nobel Prize winner and quit while I'm ahead - I don't see the Natural History or poetry happening this year :)