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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments This is a new category for the Bookworm Challenge 2015.

Read up to 5 books that have won a literary award (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Man Booker Award, etc).


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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments First one in this category:

Jackaby by William Ritter

It won the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten for 2015.


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Rebecca Douglass (rdouglass) | 379 comments Oh! I just read Number the Stars, which is a Newbery winner.


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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Finished:

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Winner of YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten for 2012


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Sam (ecowitch) | 319 comments Finished Running the Rift which won the Bellwether Prize in 2010


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Rebecca Douglass (rdouglass) | 379 comments Another Newbery winner, from 1932: Waterless Mountain


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Connie Cote | 595 comments Mod
I just read my first one in this category. When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid. It won the Governor General's Literay Award. It was also runner-up for the Canada Reads competition. A tough subject and very graphic but a good read.


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Rebecca Douglass (rdouglass) | 379 comments And I Lived on Butterfly Hill, which won something called the Pura Belpre Award.


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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Rebecca wrote: "And I Lived on Butterfly Hill, which won something called the Pura Belpre Award."

Hi Rebecca, I just noticed that you listed this one under historical fiction and also under Prize Winners. Since you can only apply one category per book, do you want to keep this here or under Historical?


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Rebecca Douglass (rdouglass) | 379 comments Oh, geez. I did it again! Leave it where it was. If I kept up with these postings when I first read each book, I wouldn't do this. But I miss some, then go back and try to fix it. Or mess it up, as seems to be the case. Do all my books fit multiple categories?? :D


message 11: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Rebecca wrote: "Oh, geez. I did it again! Leave it where it was. If I kept up with these postings when I first read each book, I wouldn't do this. But I miss some, then go back and try to fix it. Or mess it up, as..."

Well, I missed it at first too, so it's not just you! ;-)

Okay, I removed it from the Prize Winners category and kept in under Historicals which closes out that category for you, good job!


message 12: by Melki (new)

Melki I finished (and LOVED!) The Guards winner of the 2004 Shamus Award for Best Novel.


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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Melki wrote: "I finished (and LOVED!) The Guards winner of the 2004 Shamus Award for Best Novel."

Ken Bruen is one of my very favorite authors. I can read his books in a single sitting!


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Melki Stephanie wrote: "Ken Bruen is one of my very favorite authors. I can read his books in a single sitting!"

I'll be reading a lot more of his stuff in the near future.


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Melki I'm done with a second prizewinner - Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger, winner of the 1987 Booker Prize.


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Second prize winner is:A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. It won the Pulitzer in 2011


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Michael (michaelbl) | 200 comments My first for this category is Cleopatra: A Lifeby Stacy Schiff it won the Pulitzer.


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My third one in this category is another Pulitzer winner. Tinkers by Paul Harding


message 19: by Melki (new)

Melki Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James Dickey - winner of the National Book Award for poetry in 1966.


message 20: by Sam (last edited Jun 26, 2015 07:43AM) (new)

Sam (ecowitch) | 319 comments Managed to down three for this with:

Elizabeth Is Missing by Elizabeth Is Missing - winner of the Costa Book Award for a First Novel 2014
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King - winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel 2014
Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan - winner of the Terry Pratchett Prize 2011


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Michael (michaelbl) | 200 comments My second read for this category is: Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past by Peter Balakian 1998 winner of the PEN/Albrand Prize for best memoir.


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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Heart-broken after reading:

Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

It won several prizes, one of which was the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 2005.

This one was really tough to read...


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Rebecca Douglass (rdouglass) | 379 comments Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper. It won the Coretta Scott King award in 2007.

And, I will note, in keeping with my usual pattern, could also have been in Color in the Title, not to mention Historical (except I've finished that).


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Sam (ecowitch) | 319 comments And I've got my final one for this with The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (1987) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1986)


message 25: by Melki (new)

Melki I just finished the 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. It was mostly wonderful.


message 26: by Connie (new)

Connie Cote | 595 comments Mod
My 4th is the Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt


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Stephanie (stephanie-somanybooks) | 719 comments Connie wrote: "My 4th is the Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt"

Did you love it or did you hate it, Connie? I have found there are really only two camps where this book is concerned...


message 28: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca Douglass (rdouglass) | 379 comments Stephanie wrote: "Connie wrote: "My 4th is the Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt"

Did you love it or did you hate it, Connie? I have found there are really only two c..."


I haven't read it. I'm not sure I can lift it :p


message 29: by Connie (new)

Connie Cote | 595 comments Mod
Stephanie wrote: "Connie wrote: "My 4th is the Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt"

Did you love it or did you hate it, Connie? I have found there are really only two c..."


Rebecca wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Connie wrote: "My 4th is the Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt"

Did you love it or did you hate it, Connie? I have found there are..."


I found it dragged a bit in spots but overall I liked it.


message 30: by Connie (new)

Connie Cote | 595 comments Mod
My 5th and final book in this category is True History of the Kelly Gang . It is a Booker Prize winner.

Now to work on some of my other categories.


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