Book Award Winners A Great Way to compile a list of possibles

http://needmoreshelves.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-because-i-can-never-stop-at-just.html

Elizabeth ran this on her blog and it's a great way to compile a list of possible books to read as a challenge. I will be commenting on these titles if and when I read them or read reviews of them.

Starters:Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Samuel Johnson prize) finished 8/12/08The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Newbery) - finished 2/16/09, rated 9/10Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda Belli (Biblioteca Breve) finished 3/19/09, rated Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Man Booker)

I am going to join this one too. (See, I knew as soon as I did one the
floodgates would open.) For this challenge I have to pick 10 award winners to
read over 10 months, from at least 5 different award categories. I don't have to
have my final list yet, so here are the current list of
possibilities:Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Arthur C. Clarke)Midnight's
Children by Salman Rushdie (Man Booker) - finished 4/23/09, rated 6/10An
Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Costa/Whitbread)The In-Between
World of Vikram Lal by M.G. Vassanji (Giller)Mercy Among the Children by David
Adams Richards (Giller)The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy (Governor General)Jonathan
Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Hugo)This Blinding Absence of Light
by Taher Ben Jelloun (IMPAC Dublin)The Known World by Edward P. Jones (IMPAC
Dublin)Sacred Country by Rose Tremain (James Tait Black)The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai (NBCC)Atonement by Ian McEwan (NBCC)Doomsday Book by Connie
Willis (Hugo and Nebula)Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie (Orange)The
Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Samuel Johnson prize)
finished 8/12/08The
Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Newbery) - finished 2/16/09, rated 9/10Infinity in the Palm
of Her Hand by Gioconda Belli (Biblioteca Breve) finished 3/19/09, rated