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Read one or more classics that won a literary prize such as the Pulitzer Prize.
There is no need to list examples as lists are readily available in Goodreads. Please just state which book(s) you plan to read.

And which prize(s) they have been awarded ☺️

There was a pub quiz team with that name down the Forth. (And the winner is...) Haaaha

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1. (book title, year, author, prize received)
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"and the nominees are..."

✅ Cosmic
Karin
✅ Kathy
✅ Lynn
Jazzy
Michaela
✅ Nike
✅ Rosemarie
✅ Shaina
✅ Trisha
✅ Vicky
✅ Vit

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1. Maximka; Sea Stories - Konstantin Staniukovich (1843-1903) The Pushkin Prize. The prize was awarded to the Russian who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence.
2. Airport (1968) - Arthur Hailey California Book Award, Fiction (Silver) (1968)
3. The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene Audie Award, Audio (2013)

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1. Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington ✅
1922 Pulitzer prize
Finished 31 October

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1.Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer(1936)✅
Newbery Prize Winner 1937

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✅1. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy, 1960, National Book Award 1962

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✅1. To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite Pub 1959, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1961
✅2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Pub 1962, Newbury Award in 1963

Some awarded books become classic and some awarded books sink in oblivion…
James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fiction (1922) and Hawthornden Prize (1923):
David Garnett - Lady into Fox 1922
Prix Goncourt (1969):
Félicien Marceau - Creezy 1969
National Book Award, Fiction (1962):
Walker Percy - The Moviegoer 1962

Shaina I love To Sir, With Love and I have a battered old copy with the pages falling out!

ooh nice choices Vit!

I chose a photo of Sidney Poitier to illustrate this reading challenge because his story of learning to read is remarkable.



Once he was living in America, Poitier decided he wanted to be an actor, and made his way to New York City in 1943, at the age of 16.

There, he auditioned with the prestigious American Negro Theater in Harlem, but when they handed him a script to read, Poitier wasn’t able to make out the words. With so little schooling, he was effectively illiterate. Unfit for any other job, he went to work as a dishwasher in a New York restaurant where he met the elderly Jewish waiter who would change his life.

“There was one of the waiters, a Jewish guy, elderly man, and he looked over at me, and he was looking at me for quite a while,” Poitier recalled. “I had a newspaper, it was called Journal American. And he walked over to me, and he said, ‘What’s new in the paper?’ And I looked up at this man. I said to him, ‘I can’t tell you what’s in the paper, because I can’t read very well.’ He said, ‘Let me ask you something, would you like me to read with you?’ I said to him, ‘Yes, if you like.’”

They studied late at night in the restaurant, long after closing time. The elderly Jewish waiter – Poitier later described him as patient and bespectacled – painstakingly taught Poitier the meanings of punctuation marks and how to sound out words. Poitier later described: “He sat there with me week after week after week.” They used newspapers to sound out words. During the day, Poitier listened to the radio to expand his vocabulary and diction; at night he read with the Jewish waiter. Eventually, after about six months, Poitier was finally a fluent reader.

He tried out again for the American Negro Theater, and was accepted as an apprentice.

I will play again. My goal is at least 1 book. There are so many good choices that I won't try to list them.

“and the winner is…” (October 2022 challenge)
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1. Bullfight, 1948, Yasushi Inoue, Akutagawa Prize - 3* 10/29/2022



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Here's the review I wrote.

I readBullfight for a reading group challenge. I needed a book in translation. I chose this because the idea is to explore a culture different from my own. Also I loved The Hunting Gun by the same author and translated by the same translator.

This is a bizarre story. In the ruins of post-war Japan as society is rebuilding a fledgling newspaper editor in a fiercely competitive market decides to sponsor Sumo wrestling bulls in a tournament at a local baseball field. The story has very little to do with actual bulls wrestling - the bulls must be a metaphor. Instead we see the wrestling, or competition, of people struggling to succeed in business. They are from varying levels of social status and respectability. There is a mania and depression to the entire enterprise.

So did I manage to read something from another culture? Absolutely. Bull sumo wrestling is a thing I had never heard of. Yet, being a school teacher and coming from a family where most of us think of ourselves as being in one or another field of service (teachers, nurses, restaurants) the striving for money and position in the business world was also foreign to me, regardless of the country in which it occurs.

“and the winner is…” (October 2022 challenge)
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(book title, year, author, prize received)

1.The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman HawesNewbery Medal awarded in 1924.
✔ (16/10/21)★★★★
2. The Magnificent Ambersons13350263]byBooth Tarkingtonwon the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1919.
✔ (18/10/21)★★★★
3.Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with no FeathersbyJohn Burninghamawarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1963.
✔ (4/10/21)★★★★

Finished 19/10/21

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I'll be reading a very long classic that didn't win an individual award (the filmed version did) but the author won some awards later for the combination of his works (he did win the Pulitzer, but prior to publishing this one.)

I know this won't count, but it's so close it kills me and I have to read it for something. You posted this after I checked here yesterday :)

Ah, well, I'll see how it goes, but by this point in the month I am usually fairly well booked for what I'm going to read the next month (but sometimes additions make it.) Pun originally unintentional but left intentionally.

I do have another long classic I'm going to be reading, but it's too old for this sort of thing.

Another month perhaps!

Added to the list Lynn and Vicky!
Technically this challenge doesn't start until today (1/10/31) so if you want to read 3 books you might need to find another one! x

Karin if the author won the Pulitzer that's good enough - You're added!

I´ll read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for October, and as it won the Women´s Prize for Fiction (and other awards) in 2007, I´ll add it here. :)

“and the winner is…” (October 2022 challenge)

1/10/22 - 31/10/22


1. (book title, year, author, prize received)

Jazzy wrote: "I chose a photo of Sidney Poitier to illustrate this reading challenge because his story of learning to read is remarkable.



Wow, what a story. Such a goodhearted man who dedicated himself to teach him!

I've got a question - must the literary prize won have been awarded for the chosen book or can it be for the author's whole career like the Nobel Prize?

Michaela wrote: "I´ll read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for October, and as it won the Women´s Prize for Fiction (and other awards) in 2007, I´ll add it here. :)"

Is it okay to choose such new books? I thought they always had to be at least fifty years old. But if it's okay then the alternatives multiply 🙂

Jazzy wrote: "Added to the list Lynn and Vicky!
Technically this challenge doesn't start until today (1/10/31) so if you want to read 3 books you might need to find another one! x

Karin if the author won the P..."

Thanks!!

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Nike wrote: "Michaela wrote: "I´ll read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for October, and as it won the Women´s Prize for Fiction (and other awards) in 2007, I´ll ..."

Ah, you´re probably right, as it´s a Classics group lol! ;)
Don´t know when awards were first given, but probably the Nobel Prize for Literature since the start of the 20th century.

Michaela wrote: "Nike wrote: "Michaela wrote: "I´ll read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for October, and as it won the Women´s Prize for Fiction (and other awards) i..."


Yes, I guess so because I've been googling prizes for authors like Jukes Verne and Mark Twain and there doesn't seem to have been any literary prizes back then. Hm, I'm sorry if I spoiled something for you now - that was not my intention. (I kind of hope we could be allowed to read newer books because there are so many more prizes nowadays).

Nike, Michaela & others - please read this!

There is no need to Google - as I said, the information is available in Goodreads. At the top of your screen there are menus including Books & Browse. Click on Browse, then choose Lists. In the search box that appears, type Pulitzer (or whatever prize you want to find). The search will produce lists of books. There is a huge choice - Pulitzer has been awarded since 1918 & includes many well-known books by famous authors such as Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Thornton Wilder, Pearl S. Buck…

Please read the original challenge again in Message #1 - the challenge was to read a classic that won a literary prize. So, not a new book, & not a random book by an author who won a prize for a different book!

Thanks for clarifying Trisha... I´ll think about it, as my months are always full with books to read.

Michaela wrote: "Thanks for clarifying Trisha... I´ll think about it, as my months are always full with books to read."

No problem, Michaela. Everyone has other commitments, the challenges are there for those who have time. They are always optional!

Trisha wrote: "Nike, Michaela & others - please read this!

There is no need to Google - as I said, the information is available in Goodreads. At the top of your screen there are menus including Books & Browse. C..."

I know there are lists here at Goodreads, I often use them but I actually thought that most prizes were newer than 50 years old. And I don't know the names of all big international prizes so I thought I had to google their names. But I won't then.

I did have a question above, maybe you didn't see it or maybe I didn't express myself clear enough. I wondered about the Nobel prize, it's not for "a random other book" than the one I will read - I never asked that, it's for an entire writing career which then - at least in my mind - includes the book I'll choose. I'm sorry if I upset you in any way, that was not my intention. I do apologize.

Nike
“and the winner is…” (October 2022 challenge)

1/10/22 - 31/10/22


(book title, year, author, prize received)

1. Steppenwolf, 1946, Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize

2. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold , 1964, John le Carré, Somerset Maugham Award

Nike wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Nike, Michaela & others - please read this!

There is no need to Google - as I said, the information is available in Goodreads. At the top of your screen there are menus including Bo..."

No need to apologise, Nike. The discussion was getting a bit confusing. You are right about the Nobel prize, it is awarded differently from most of the other prizes so any book by those authors would be fine. But it’s easy to get distracted when choosing for this topic - I chose a Pulitzer book, looked at Amazon hoping to find a free copy, then nearly chose a book by the same author that looked more interesting but hadn’t won any prizes at all! I still want to read it some time, just not for this challenge.

I hope you enjoy your chosen book.

Our group has a few lists of prize winners, including those for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Miles Franklin Literary Award!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

I'm still working on the Naoki prize winners too :)

I am in, but not sure which books.
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1. The Moonstone, first published August 1st 1868) Wilkie Collins. Finish October 10, 2022
Literary AwardsCWA Best Ever Nominee for Crime Novel (2013)
2. The Organization Man, (first published 1956) William H. Whyte National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (1957)
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Added, Cosmic! x

Jazzy wrote: "Added to the list Lynn and Vicky!
Technically this challenge doesn't start until today (1/10/31) so if you want to read 3 books you might need to find another one! x

Karin if the author won the P..."

Ok Jazzy-have reread book,now an October date!

Trisha wrote: "Nike, Michaela & others - please read this!

There is no need to Google - as I said, the information is available in Goodreads. At the top of your screen there are menus including Books & Browse. C..."

That is what I thought! But since I have to long classics out plus other books, I am not going to be able to fit one in.

If it is possible to announce the challenges earlier that would really help me. I often have most of my next month's books planned before the 29th :)

If it is possible to announce the challenges announced at least a week prior that would help :)

Please remind me what year is the cut-off date for a classic in this group? Was it 50 years? 1972? LOL So many groups; so little time.


And here I am answering my own question:

Classic reads (50 years or older) only please unless requested for a challenge.

yes 50 years old :)

Three very different but equally brilliant books…
James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fiction (1922) and Hawthornden Prize (1923):
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ David Garnett - Lady into Fox 1922
Prix Goncourt (1969):
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Félicien Marceau - Creezy 1969
National Book Award, Fiction (1962):
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Walker Percy - The Moviegoer 1962

Brilliant Vit! Well done x

A very fine unexpected addition to this month challenge.
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1968):
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop 1967

Any chance we can find out what next month's challenge is before the 29th? I already have a fairly full reading slate for November and would like to be able to fit it in :)

oh yes! I think we shall post it tomorrow! x

Vit wrote: "A very fine unexpected addition to this month challenge.
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1968):
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop 1967"

Super, Vit! x

Jazzy wrote: "Shaina I love To Sir, With Love and I have a battered old copy with the pages falling out!

ooh nice choices Vit!"

Jazzy, I finished this book last night and I loved it. I can imagine how much you love this one just by the battered copy. I see myself re-reading this one in the future.

Karin wrote: "If it is possible to announce the challenges earlier that would really help me. I often have most of my next month's books planned before the 29th :)

If it is possible to announce the challenges announced at least a week prior that would help :)"

I'm with Karin on this one!! Please announce them a little before the 29th of the month.

I finished The Moviegoer by Walker Percy also, so I've finished my one book for the challenge.

Kathy wrote: "I finished The Moviegoer by Walker Percy also, so I've finished my one book for the challenge."

Well done! I've given you a tick!
I haven't ready any of mine - but i did get new glasses a few days ago and i'm over the moon! I can see to read again!

That's fantastic news, Jazzy! Reading is good!

That's great, Jazzy! I had cataract surgery a year ago and that really helped my reading.

Brilliant Kathy!! I got some varifocals and not quite sure they work correctly, but I can read my sheet music and that's such a great feeling! Thank you ladies! xx

I've forgotten to report my reading. I read Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. However I didn't finish it until November so I guess it doesn't count.