I have taken up the "Book Awards Challenge 2010." I have to read 10 award winning books from 10 different awards from January 1 through November 1, 2010. I think it's gonna be damn good fun ! And this way I can get back into the habit of reading regularly.These are the books I have decided to read:
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3) Arthur C. Clarke award - 1997 - The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
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5) Kiriyama prize - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea (nonfiction) OR Suketu Mehta - Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (nonfiction)
6) National Book Critics' Circle award - 1988 - Bharati Mukherjee - The Middleman and Other Stories
7) PEN/Hemingway award - 2001 – Akhil Sharma - An Obedient Father
8) Agatha award - 2004 - Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart
9) Costa/Whitbread - 2007 - Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost
10) Giller prize - 1998 - Alice Munro — The Love of a Good Woman
Wow... I thought it would be easy at first, but just choosing the books was a task. And now looking at the list... wow ! I just hope I'm able to finish reading all of these books. I know most of them are by Indian authors, but I just happen to like them best. Anyways, here's to a great year ahead, full of new learning and experiences !
I already love 2010 !
P.S. Oops... I'm changing my reading list. Just today my boss gave me 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Euginides. It has won the Pulitzer prize. It is gonna replace 'Interpreter of Maladies' because that book has won the same prize.
Anyways, if I do finish all the books I plan to read, I can always add that back to the list. But for now, Middlesex it is !
I must start today, but before hat I must also finish 'Between the Assassinations' which I'm almost done with.
So here I go... reading reading.. my first love !!
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