Tag: literary prizes

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

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• 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.
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This week’s topic is Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon. Oh my goodness, how do I narrow it down to just ten? Rather than pick out some of my oldest unread books (that would be way too embarrassing), I’m focusing on books I need to – as well as want to – read soon. So my ten comprise the seven books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction that I haven’t yet read, two books that publish next month and my book club’s pick for May. I can get through those, can’t I? Hollow laughs all round…

1. For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy on my Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie
2. Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson
3. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
4. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
5. Mister Timeless Blyth by Alan Spence
6. In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
7. Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
8. Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
9. The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley 
10. The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Which books from your TBR pile do you hope to read soon?

Top 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.

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This 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