#TopTenTuesday Books I’ve Read That Have Won Literary Prizes #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

Prize Winner AwardThis week’s ‘official’ topic is Characters I’d Like to go on Vacation With. I’m afraid this had me stumped so I’ve gone off-piste (at least alluding to the vacation theme) with my own topic – Books I’ve Read That Have Won Literary Prizes.

  1. The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction – The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
  2. The Women’s Prize for Fiction – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
  3. The Booker Prize – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  4. The Dylan Thomas Prize – God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
  5. The Nobel Prize in Literature – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (prize awarded to author not single work)
  6. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  7. The Goldsmiths Prize – The Long Take by Robin Robertson
  8. The Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger – Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
  9. Costa Book Awards (now defunct) – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
  10. The ‘Nibbies’ Fiction Book of the Year – Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

17 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Books I’ve Read That Have Won Literary Prizes #TuesdayBookBlog”

    1. Equally there are any number of prize winning books I’ve not read! I struggled to find some I had read for a number of the prizes and had to omit the International Booker Prize completely.

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    1. I thought about it but I’m not sure the majority of people who take part in TTT read the sort of books that get nominated for literary prizes. That’s not me being snobbish, there are books that get nominated that I’d never think about reading! Fantasy & romance which are so popular seem to get overlooked for prizes apart from maybe Goodreads Choice Awards.

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  10. Fun twist!
    I have loved your #6.
    I have read quite a few old Nobel Prizes in lit, and also more recent French literary awards, oh and Japanese as well. and of course the trilogy by Hilary Mantel, other than that, nothing rather recent comes to mind

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  11. This is a wonderful spin for this week’s post! I’ve heard of a few of these, and have them on my TBR, but this may just be the motivation I need to get these books read already.

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  12. I’ve discovered over the years that I don’t usually like books that have won literary prizes, which makes sense since I’m not big on literary fiction in general. Not surprisingly, I haven’t read any of these. I did start ALL THE LIGHT YOU CANNOT SEE. While it was beautifully written, I also found it really boring, so I DNF’d it. I might give it another go at some point. We’ll see.

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan

    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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