Book Awards Reading Challenge II

I never thought I'd be eagerly making a posting like this one. This seems a bit in contradiction with what i stated when i started this blog which was that award winning books will most probably not be featured here. And here i am making promises to read 10 of them by June 2009.


See, I went through the list of books that have been winning awards, and some of em i do like/wanna read.. So here goes...another reading challenge.



Rules:

1. Read 10 award winners from August 1, 2008 through June 1, 2009.
2. You must have at least FIVE different awards in your ten titles.
3. Overlaps with other challenges are permitted.
4. You don't have to post your choices right away, and your list can change at any time.
5. 'Award winners' is loosely defined; make the challenge fit your needs, keeping in mind Rule #2.
6. SIGN UP using Mr. Linky below.
7. Have fun reading!

Ok, here's my tentative list of books:

1. Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (Booker Prize)
2. Mark Haddon - The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Whitbread Book of the Year, 2003)
3. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (Scotiaback Giller Prize (1995); Booker Prize Nominee (1996); IMPAC Dublin Award Nominee (1997); Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1996))
4. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris (Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2001. )
5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Newbery Medal 2009, Cybils Award in Middle Grade Fantasy and Science Fiction 2008)
6. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Man Booker Prize 1998)
7. Ian McEwan - On Chesil beach (British Book Awards / Galaxy Book of the Year 2008)
8. Cormac MacCarthy - The Road (Pulitzer, The National Book Critics 2006)
9. Yann Martel - Life of Pi (Man Booker Prize, 2002)
10. Khalled Hosseni - The Kite Runner (Alex Awards)