Book Awards Reading Challenge II - DONE!!!

I did i did. I did read award winning books and for most of it, actually liked the books as well.

So this is one more challenge over and done with.


I am about 25 books behind in my reviews, and I've finally accepted that I'm not going to be reviewing all of them
But that still leaves me with 3 more reviews to write for this challenge which ends today. Since i wanna do a good job on those, I'm just jotting a 2 line review for now to mark this post as complete and then I'll link the review later on this week once I've finally finished typing 'em.

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) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Irish Book Award - Children's, 2007)

8) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize for Literature (1954) A book which started out so well for me and then that damn thing with the fish went on and on. Yes, i know, its about the human spirit, testing yourself, self-validation and all the other fancy words. And i did just that by enduring till the end of the book.

9) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Man Booker Prize 2008) As an Indian, i have too many things that i wanna say about this book, but as a book this did make interesting reading. I surprised myself by really liking the style of writing too. See review here

10) Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Man Booker Prize, 2002) The best of 'em all this one was. I've never heard a name lovelier than Richard Parker. A story within stories, as amazing a read as it was every page, its when you realise the book is more than just the surface adventure that it truly moves to the number One position on a 'will read again' list.