Award-Winning Reading Challenge

I am so excited to announce that I will be participating in the

Award-Winning Reading Challenge hosted by Insatiable Booksluts.

I figured it's about time that I actually read some of the books off the award lists (okay, other than the Newbery and Caldecott, because I read books off those lists all the time). This challenge allows me to pick and choose from when off which list I read, just the way I like it.

For this challenge, I will be doing a Full Frontal, with a little Genre Buster and Extra Credit thrown in (because I'm a hopeless overachiever).

Full Frontal:
You are not fucking around here—you want to read the best and the brightest, and a lot of them, even if it kills you. Your challenge is to read:

• three (3) full-length books written by Nobel laureates 
• three (3) full-length novels that won the Pulitzer Prize
• three (3) books that won the Man Booker Prize
• one (1) book (or one book from one author) each from the following: 
• the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
• the National Book Award for Fiction
• the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Genre Buster:
Hey, there are other awards besides literary awards. Read one book from each of the following lists:

• Hugo Award (sci-fi/fantasy)
• Nebula Award for Novels (sci-fi/fantasy)
• World Fantasy Award 
• Bram Stoker Best Novel Award (horror)
• Aurealis award for best horror novel
• Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger (crime fiction)
• Mystery Writers of America 
• RITA awards (romance–fuck yeah, we’re going there)

Extra Credit:
Read one book from these random-ass awards that we found around the internet. This particular challenge may be subject to change as we find more oddball awards, but when/if I update, I’ll include the date so that you know if they were part of your original challenge or not:

• Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year 
• Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award
• Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award  (chosen because Theakston’s is a brewery with its own book award–badass)
• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards (because I love the word “Gaylactic” so much I want to marry it–but I’d have to move to New York for that, fucking anti-gay activist bastards)

I have not chosen a first book yet, because I need to spend a little time with these lists. Needless to say, I will be continuing to blog about my choices, and encourage you to sign up for this reading challenge, too.