The Score

Here is my “score” for the Prize winners I’ve read. For a couple of awards it doesn’t look too bad. Most of them – I haven’t read a damn thing. If I was going to start a reading "project" based on prize-winners, I'd definitely start with the Newberry...

The Newberry Medal (4)
2004 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (not read yet, but I’ve just bought it)
1999 Holes by Louis Sachar
1978 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle

Man Booker Prize (8)
2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1998 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (5)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee