Chapter Adventure Reading Challenges (Formerly GXO) discussion

Your task this month is to read at least 1 book that WON a book award in JULY - any year.

Awards that have been announced in JULY include:

* Arthur C. Clarke Award
* Thriller Awards
* Shirley Jackson Awards were given out in July between 2009-2019

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(1) the name book you're reading for the challenge,
(2) the name and year of the award it won
(3) CHALLENGE COMPLETE if you've finished reading the book

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke award

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

A well written story with rather unique take on animal companions and a healthy dose of social realism

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

My reading got seriously derailed in July! I ran out of time to read the novel I had originally decided to read for the challenge, so I had to change my plan in the eleventh hour.

I read "'The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains ...'," the Neil Gaiman story from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances that received the Shirley Jackson Award in the novelette category in 2011.

It was excellent (like everything I've ever read by Gaiman) ... and I read it on THE last day of the month.

Sarah wrote: "CHALLENGE COMPLETE

My reading got seriously derailed in July! I ran out of time to read the novel I had originally decided to read for the challenge, so I had to change my plan in the eleventh hou..."

Gaiman is just awesome! My favorite from him is still Neverwhere.

Tanya wrote: "My favorite from him is still Neverwhere. ..."

Neverwhere was great, and it's probably high time I re-read it. TBH I've never read anything by him that I didn't *at least* like a lot. My top Gaiman title remains American Gods, though.

My read in July won the Orange Prize 2012 for Fiction: The Song of Achilles