While randomly browsing trying to join a competition (that I will write about later) I found this great blog: Book Award Challenge and I decided to participate in this book reading chalange!
For the rules of the challenge please look here.
My 12 books are:
1. 2006 J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (British Book Award) (English) ✘
2. 2005 Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code (British Book Award) (English) ✘
3. 2004 Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves (British Book Award) (English)
4. 2000 Nicola Barker - Wide Open (INPAC Dublin Award) (English)
5. 1998 Ian McEwan - Amsterdam (Man Booker Prize) (English)
6. 1981 Dick Francis - Whip Hand (Edgar Award) (English)
7. 1978 Iris Murdoch - The Sea (Man Booker Prize) (English)
8. 1957 Albert Camus - La Mort heureuse (A Happy Death) (written 1936-1938, published posthumously 1971) (Nobel Prize) (French)
9. 1954 Ernest Hemingway - Across The River And Into The Trees (Nobel Prize) (English)
10. 1944 Pär Lagerkvist Dvärgen (Dwarfs) (Nobel Prize) (Swedish)
11. 1942 Mikhail Sholokhov - Oni Srazhalis Za Rodinu (They Fought for Their Country) (Nobel Prize) (Russian)
12. 1932 Hermann Hesse - Die Morgenlandfahrt (Journey to the East) (Nobel Prize) (German)
My Bonus books are:
1. 2005 Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin (Orange Prize) (English)
2. 2000 Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times (Orange Prize) (English)
3. 1996 Helen Dunmore - Spell of Winter (Orange Prize) (English)
To make the challenge even more interesting I decided to read all the books in the original language except the Pär Lagerkvist's Dvärgen as I do not read, nor understand Swedish. All the other books without an exception will be read in the language they were written in.
I can't believe Harry Potter book is at the top, but the order is according to the date the author got the prize or for nobel prize winner the year the book was published. Well wish me good luck I have a lot of reading to do!
2 comments:
Looks interesting. Do you have to read the books in a certain amount of time? For me, it is too difficult to pinpoint which books I'll read in which order. I have gone out and purchased a stack of classics I know I want to read but it really comes down to finishing a book and then just "feeling" which one I want next.
Of course, we love our Hemingway, don't we? And I really like Albert Camus. In fact, I have A Happy Death sitting on my shelf right now, waiting to be read. Perhaps we could read that simultaneously sometime? I know we've talked about doing that together. Once you have consistent internet, maybe we should give it another go?
As always, thinking of you and wishing you much happiness.
Yes B I do have to read it in a certain amount of time, within a year. I don't think I will read them in the order I listed them it just looked a lot more tidy the way I did it.
But as I read six books at the same time the order is not the problem.
Yes we do love our Hemingway, if I could all of the 12 books would be Hemingway's! I'd love to read a book simoultaniously with you it would be so interesting to compare our views and opinions.
As for internet I am going to have it continiously for a month so we can chat, write and read together!
Thanks for everything B great to see you are reading my blog!
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