Book Awards IV

10 months. 10 awards.

January 1 to November 1.
Hosted by 3M.
Rules and Sign-up on the Challenge Blog.

I don't yet know what I'll be reading, and since the rules allow me to create my list as I go, I'm going to do that. But here are a few of the books I'm currently considering:

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Giller Prize 1996)


• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 1972)


• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (National Book Award Finalist in Young People's Literature 2009)


• A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (Beehive Award Nominee 2010)


• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Printz Honor Book 2009)


• Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (Alex Award 2009)


• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Man Booker Prize 2002)


• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Pulitzer Prize in History 1991)


• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Alex Award 2002)


• Wild Swans by Jung Chang (British Book Award 1994)