Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Maybe you like to read lesser known books or think that the typical book awards are over-rated. But it’s hard to argue that the most coveted awards don’t sometimes pick a true “winner”. So this week we’re giving ten of the most popular awards to choose from.

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Suggestions:

ATY Group Listopia

The Specsavers National Book Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Booker Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize
Costa Book Awards
Neustadt International Prize for Literature <
Hugo Awards
Guardian First Book Award
National Book Award
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction

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Optional Questions
1. What are you reading for this category?
2. Which award did it get nominated for?
3. Is it a winner?

I'm going to read Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award.

I was going to read Girl Woman Other but I can’t wait till next year! I might wait and select from the 2020 shortlists.

Hey Laura, the listopia you linked to is the New York Times Notable Books Lists one.

Has anyone read Danse Macabre by Stephen King. It won the Hugo Award.

So, after going through my shelves for Women's Prize nominees, I had so many options that I'm not even going to explore any of the other awards!

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Carry Me Down
Disobedience
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Five Quarters of the Orange
Fugitive Pieces
Half of a Yellow Sun
How to Be Both
Normal People
So I Am Glad
The Little Friend
The Night Circus
The Power
The Private Parts of Women
White Ghost Girls
White Teeth

I’m doing Milkman by Anna Burns, which won the 2018 Booker.

Jackie wrote: "Hey Laura, the listopia you linked to is the New York Times Notable Books Lists one."

I noticed this as well and did a quick listopia search.
Here is what came up for ATY 2020 in general https://www.goodreads.com/search?page...

and the Listopia for this promt https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I'll read All Systems Red which won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

I can also recommend Spinning Silver (Hugo nominee) and The Calculating Stars (Hugo winner).

https://bookmarks.reviews/the-award-w...

I decided I finally needed to read The Complete Maus, the first volume of which won the 1992 Pulitzer

"The Specsavers National Book Awards"? Never heard of that.

For this prompt, I read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. It won the 2018 Costa First Novel Award.

For this prompt, I read Bring Up the Bodies which won the Man Booker Prize award. I wanted to catch up on this trilogy in anticipation of her third and final novel on Thomas Cromwell coming out in 2020.

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
2. Which award did it get nominated for?
Man Booker Prize in 2007
3. Is it a winner?
negative

I read So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell, which was nominated for the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. Honestly, I think I missed something with this book because I just found it rather boring and pointless.

1. What are you reading for this category? Every Heart a Doorway
2. Which award did it get nominated for? Hugo Award
3. Is it a winner? It won in 2017 for the novella

I hadn't planned on reading it this year but I came across it in the library and realized it would fit this prompt. The other book I had picked for this prompt I wasn't crazy about so I was glad I found it.

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read Snap by Belinda Bauer

2. Which award did it get nominated for?
It was nominated for the SpecSavers National Book Award

3. Is it a winner?
Yes, it won in the Crime/Thriller category. And well deserved!

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Age of Innocence
2. Which award did it get nominated for?
Pulitzer Prize
3. Is it a winner?
Yes, it won in 1921

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - 4 stars
It can also be used for the fantasy, or the can be read in a day prompts.

2. Which award did it get nominated for?
The Specsavers National Book Award

3. Is it a winner?
Yes, for 2013

1. What are you reading for this category?
Witness

2. Which award did it get nominated for?
National Book Award for Nonfiction

3. Is it a winner?
No, just a finalist.



People rave about this book, especially in political circles, but I don't get it. This book bored me to near death. It's supposed to be "sensational" and "groundbreaking", but found myself forgetting in so many moments forgetting that it is a nonfiction book and not a work of fiction that was adequately written. It's possible that at the time of it's release (1952) it was mind-blowing, but now these things just phase us as they used to. #ThanksInternet

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Nom and won Pulitzer in 2018. It's a fun book.

I read The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
This was nominated for and a finalist for the National Book Award, also a nominee for the Kirkus Prize. It unfortunately did not win. It was a very enjoyable novel.

1. What are you reading for this category? The Calculating Stars
2. Which award did it get nominated for? Hugo Award
3. Is it a winner? It won in 2019 for Best Novel, and also received the Nebula Award in 2018 for Best Novel

I haven't started the book, and won't start it until October, but I'm excited to begin!

I read American Gods. It won the Hugo, Nebula and a bunch more awards. I really enjoyed the surreal take on many Midwestern locations I am familiar with.

This might be the time for Atonement by Ian McEwan. But I really have to be in the mood....

I also might go with something that won a Hugo or Nebula...

Or I see that Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is in the listopia...pretty sure we are reading that for book club this month

I read Spinning Silver for this. It was a Hugo Award in 2019.

I just found out today, in another GR thread, that the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to an author not for a particular book. So, I assume that any book by that author works for this award.

1)Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
2)Hugo
3)yes

1. What are you reading for this category?


2. Which award did it get nominated for?
Costa

3. Is it a winner?
Yes. 2017 Costa Book Award for First Novel

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read Saga, Vol. 9

2. Which award did it get nominated for?
Hugo Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2019.

3. Is it a winner?
No, just a nominee.

Ana A wrote: "1. What are you reading for this category?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - 4 stars
It can also be used for the fantasy, or the can be read in a day prompts.

2. Wh..."

Great, I have that on audio and never got around to listening.

1. What are you reading for this category?

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

2. Which award did it get nominated for?

It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991.

3. Is it a winner?

Yes, it won.

Just FYI the wrong listopia is linked in the top post. It goes to the 100 Notable Books NYT prompt listopia.

EDIT:

Here's the link to this prompt's listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Also, I removed my vote from the book on the NYT list, but it's still showing up so I guess a mod might need to delete it. Sorry about that!

I had to read Too Like the Lightning (Hugo nominee 2017) for a book club. Through a comedy of errors I skimmed the whole thing in three hours, finishing just before the start of book club, only to discover that it's the book for next month. Enjoyed it, but will definitely need to reread it to actually get the point.

1. What are you reading for this category? The Grapes of Wrath
2. Which award did it get nominated for? Pulitzer Prize
3. Is it a winner? Yes

I read Middlesex, which I was going to read for a different prompt, but when I saw it won the Pulitzer in 2003, I decided to assign it to this category instead.

It was pretty good. I think the last three parts were far more interesting than the first two, but it was definitely well-written and an interesting story.

I ended up going with Redshirts by John Scalzi. It won a Hugo.
It was exactly what I needed right now! Hilarious, thoughtful and fun!
I ordered a copy for a friend before finishing the book.

1. What are you reading for this category? Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2. Which award did it get nominated for? Pulitzer Prize
3. Is it a winner? Yes

Read this for my book group - probably wouldn't have discovered it otherwise. Enjoyed the hapless Arthur Less and his journey around the world to avoid his ex's wedding.

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge

Which award did it get nominated for?
Booker Prize 1974
Is it a winner? No. It got to the short list

I read Steven Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole for this prompt, shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2008, and a stunning debut novel. I can't remember where, or why, I picked it up and it had been on my TBR for a very long time. I'll ceruanly look out for a copy of Toltz's second novel.

I read Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2019. It's a play, and I think I would have much rather watched it performed, but it was definitely thought-provoking.

Um, listopia link goes to list for "A book from the New York Times ‘100 Notable Books’ list for any year" ^^'

1. What are you reading for this category? Such a Fun Age
2. Which award did it get nominated for? Booker
3. Is it a winner? don't know- the winner won't be announced until October

1. What are you reading for this category? My Sister, the Serial Killer
2. Which award did it get nominated for? Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2019)
3. Is it a winner? I think it was just a nominee.

This book got so much hype it kind of put me off but I didn't plan for this prompt and suddenly I needed a book for it. When I saw I could get this from the library without waiting on hold I decided to give it a go. I am so glad I did it deserves all the hype!

I am planning on reading one of these 2 books, both of which I have listed on my 12+4 challenge in another GR group:
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - Winner of the 2010 Women's Prize
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - Winner of the 1954 National Book Prize

What are you reading for this category?
Dune, by Frank Herbert


Which award did it get nominated for?
The Hugo Awards

Is it a winner?
Yes, in 1966

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I’m currently reading (well, listening to) Half of a Yellow Sun, which is on a lot of awards lists. I chose it for this prompt last year, but now that I’m looking, it may not have won the right awards!

ETA: The Orange Prize was renamed the Women’s Prize, and it did win in 2007.

For my 2nd time, I read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, nominated for National Book Award and several others, though it looks like it didn't win. My impression was the same as with many award-winning books. I can see why it was admired (very poetic, somewhat unusual style) but there wasn't enough of it to grab me. It was really short, which was good for the Readathon!

I just started The Submission by Amy Waldman for this category. The book was nominated for many awards; among them were the Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist (2012), the Guardian First Book Award (2011) and the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2011). In addition, it was a PEN/Hemingway Finalist and was rated #1 Book of the Year for both Entertainment Weekly and Esquire magazines. It's the "imagining of what would have happened if a Muslim architect had won the design contest for the 9/11 Memorial" in NYC. Sounds promising.