Award Winners {Monthly Motif Apr. Check In}
Four months in and we are moving right along!! I hope you’re having as much fun with the challenge as we are! April’s theme is award winners and it’s been my goal to read more award winning books this year, so here we go…
Award Winner
“Read a book that has won a literary award or a book written by an author who has been recognized in the bookish community.”
Here are some ideas to get you started…
Let’s Talk Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees
Several of the books we mentioned won their categories.
3 Favorite Award Winning Novels From Last Year
Stay tuned for a couple more recommendation posts coming your way in April!
Be sure to comment on this post all month long with your award winning book review links!
Malin @ Malin's Blog of Books
For this month’s challenge I read 1) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, which has won a ton of awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award: http://kingmagu.blogspot.no/2017/05/cbr9-book-36-handmaids-tale-by-margaret.html
2) Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas, which won a RITA: http://kingmagu.blogspot.no/2017/04/cbr9-book-35-devil-in-winter-by-lisa.html
3) Weird Girl and What’s His Name by Meagan Brothers, which won the Gold INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for YA fiction: http://kingmagu.blogspot.no/2017/05/cbr9-book-43-weird-girl-and-whats-his.html
William
I read ‘The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson for this month. It won the Newbery Medal. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1986816612?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
Kimberly Lynne
I’ve always liked that book!
Tina Culbertson
I am adding the best selling amazing And Then There Were Nine by Agatha Christie!
https://novelmeals.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/and-then-there-were-none-by-agatha-christie/
Kimberly Lynne
Such a good book!
Cinzia
I read “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides. It won the Pulitzer prize for literature in 2003
http://quattropassisullenuvole.blogspot.it/2017/04/middlesex-jeffrey-eugenides.html
Kim
Great choice!
Dorothy Dickerson
I read Death Turns A Trick by Julie Smith. If I recall correctly it won a Poe award in mystery. Interesting read,she’s a Jewish feminist lawyer who helps out a client that runs a bordello and after nearly getting busted, goes home to find a dead prostitute in her house. It wasn’t a long book. Just seemed to take me a while to read it. Looking for suggestions on any other books I may be able to download for cheap or free :3 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1960094326
Kim
Sounds like an interesting book!
Penny Dawinter
I read The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave as it won the Waterstones Children’s book prize this year. One of my all time favorite books, Half Bad by Sally Green, was also a category winner for this prize back in 2015 so I believe the judges make good choices! It was a close one though as I was tempted by Glorious Heresies from last years Baileys’ Women’s prize 🙂
Here’s my review:
http://pebblepen.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/the-girl-of-ink-and-stars-kiran.html
Kim
I should have read a middle grade or children’s book as part of this month too! Great idea.
Julie @ Reading Life
My book was Trader by Charles de Lint. Sure, the award was given out in 1998, but the book was wonderful and I loved it!
http://jreadinglife.blogspot.com/2017/04/trader-by-charles-de-lint.html
Kim
It counts!
JoAnne Isgro
I read A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro #1) by Dennis Lehane. It won these Literary Awards: Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1995) and Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (1995).
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1966995118
Kim
I have a Dennis Lehane book I need to get to! Glad to see you liked it.
Tanya
My selection this month was the Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2016) and it has been a A New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and Best Seller; Entertainment Weekly — Thriller Round-Up; The Wall Street Journal — 5 Killer Books for 2016; Hollywood Reporter — Hot Summer Books…16 Must Reads. So, it is “a book written by an author who has been recognized in the bookish community.”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23212667-all-the-missing-girls
Kimberly Lynne
I read All the Missing Girls a few months ago. I thought it was a solid read. Not the most amazing mystery but I still liked it. Did you like it?