This challenge is in honor of the National Book Foundation's 60th Anniversary of the National Book Award.The Foundation will be celebrating the month of July with a blog (will link soon) paying tribute to the past award winners. The blog's tributes will be written by a select group of commentators composed of past Winners, Finalists, judges, and other prominent writers, editors, bloggers, librarians, booksellers, and critics.
Rachel from A Bohemian's Book Reviews and I are co-hosting this challenge.
Please head over to our National Book Awards Challenge site and sign up! You can also post a link to your reviews here.
Option 1: Bronze Medal
Read one book from the list between June 15th and December 31st.
Option 2: Silver Medal
Read three books from the list between June 15th and December 31st.
Option 3: Gold Medal
Read five books from the list between June 15th and December 31st.
Amanda's National Book Awards List
**Going for the Gold**
1. Europe Central - William T. Vollmann
2. Charming Billy - Alice McDermott (Finished June 23, 2009)
3. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (Finished July 3, 2009)
4. Three Junes - Julia Glass (Finished August 11, 2009)
5. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann (Finished May 25, 2009)
National Book Awards List
1950 The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
1951 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952 From Here to Eternity - James Jones
1953 Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
1954 The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
1955 A Fable - William Faulkner
1956 Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara
1957 The Field of Vision - Wright Morris
1958 The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
1959 The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud
1960 Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth
1961 The Waters of Kronos - Conrad Richter
1962 The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
1963 Morte D'Urban - J.F. Powers
1964 The Centaur - John Updike
1965 Herzog - Saul Bellow
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter
1967 The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
1968 The Eigth Day - Thornton Wilder
1969 Steps - Jerzy Kosinski
1970 Them - Joyce Carol Oates
1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow
1972 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor
1973 Chimera - John Barth
1973 Augustus - John Williams
1974 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1975 Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
1975 The Hair of Harold Roux - Thomas Williams
1976 JR - William Gaddis
1977 The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner
1978 Blood Tie - Mary Lee Settle
1979 Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
1980 Stained Glass - William F. Buckley, Jr.
1980 The World According to Garp - John Irving
1980 Bendigo Shafter - Louis L'Amour
1980 The Green Ripper - John D.Mac Donald
1980 Jem - Frederick Pohl
1980 Sophie's Choice - William Styron
1980 The Book of Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin, Jr.
1981 Birdy - William Wharton
1981 Sister Wolf - Ann Arensberg
1981 The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
1981 Plains Song - Wright Morris
1982 Dew Dales Loves Sophie to Death - Robb Forman
1982 So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
1982 Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
1983 The Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor
1983 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1983 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty
1984 Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr
1984 Victory Over Japan - Ellen Gilchrist
1985 White Noise - Don DeLillo
1985 Easy in the Islands - Bob Shacochis
1986 World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow
1987 Paco's Story - Larry Heinemann
1988 Paris Trout - Pete Dexter
1989 Spartina - John Casey
1990 Middle Passage - Charles Johnson
1991 Mating - Norman Rush
1992 All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
1993 The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
1994 A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis
1995 Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett Ship
1997 Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
1998 Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
1999 Waiting - Ha Jin2000 In America - Susan Sontag
2001 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
2002 Three Junes - Julia Glass
2003 The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
2004 The News from Paraguay - Lily Tuck
2005 Europe Central - William T. Vollmann
2006 The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
2007 Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
