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Back for a second year of the category challenge!
1. Debut Books
Ablutions Patrick deWitt
The Man With the Dancing Eyes Sophie Dahl
In the Shadow of the Banyan Vaddey Ratner
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
Wonder R.J. Palacio
The Gift of Rain Tan Twan Eng
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair Nina Sankovitch
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara
2. 2013 Prize Winners
National Book Critic's Circle
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain
Caldecott Medal
This Is Not My Hat Jon Klassen
Pulitzer for Fiction
The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
Pulitzer for Biography
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the
Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss
Stella Prize
Mateship with Birds Carrie Tiffany
Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature David George Haskell
Orwell Prize
A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa A.T. Williams
National Book Award
The Good Lord Bird James McBride
3. History
Thunderstruck Erik Larson
Farming the Dust Bowl Lawrence Svobida
Philadelphia: Historic Exteriors and Interiors Gus Spector
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Denise Kiernan
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink
The Spririt Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Anne Fadiman
4. Biographies and Memoirs
Gift From the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and
an Unlikely Bride Alyssa Harad
What It Is Like To Go To War Karl Marlantes
Dear, Dear Brenda Henry Miller, Brenda Venus
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary
Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child
Who Became Theodore Roosevelt David McCullough
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller
Mortality Christopher Hitchens
Time's Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas
Arnold Bauer
The Mistress's Daughter A.M. Homes
Dreams in a Time of War Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey
from North Korea to Freedom in the West Blaine Harden
Grace: A Memoir Grace Coddington
Wave Sonali Deraniyagala
Grandfather's Journey Allen Say
Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami Gretel Ehrlich
5. RL Group Reads
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan
Last Night at the Lobster Stewart O'Nan
Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British Sarah Lyall
A Good American Alex George
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
6. LT Group or Shared Reads
419 Will Ferguson
Ashes and Diamonds Jerzy Andrzejewski
Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy who Became
Mark Twain Ron Powers
Juliet's Moon Ann Rinaldi
Stone Upon Stone Wieslaw Mysliwski
Last Friends Jane Gardam
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Regeneration Pat Barker
The Cardturner Louis Sachar
7. Orange Prize Nominees and Winners
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
NW Zadie Smith
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple
May We Be Forgiven A.M.Homes
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid Shani
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
8. Man Booker Prize Nominees and Winners
TransAtlantic Colum McCann
The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin
We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
Harvest Jim Crace
Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw
The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Madeline's Monthly TIOLI Challenge
In Red Magdalena Tulli
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and
War, 1937-1948 Madeleine Albright
The zigzag kid David Grossman
Restoration Rose Tremain
Wesley the Owl Stacey O'Brien
The Hired Man Aminatta Forna
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
The Amputated Memory Werewere Liking
10. Nobel Prize Winners
Herta Muller The Land of Green Plums
Isaac Bashevis Singer The Collected Stories
Imre Kertesz Fateless
Elie Wiesel The Accident
Mario Vargas Llosa Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
11. Companion Reads
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin
Case Histories Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn Kate Atkinson
Paradise of the Blind Duong Thu Huong
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer
1953 Elizabeth Winder
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Class Conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Claudia Johnson
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Therese Fowler
Mr. Bridge Evan S. Connell
Mrs. Bridge Evan S. Connell
How the Light Gets In Louise Penny
12. Miscellaneous
Mozart's Journey to Prague Eduard Morike
The People on Privilege Hill Jane Gardam
Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson
Splendors and Glooms Laura Amy Schlitz
The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout
Mary Coin Marisa Silver
The German Mujahid Boualem Sansal
Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien
The House of Special Purpose John Boyne
The Sign on Rosie's Door Maurice Sendak
A Sick Day for Amos McGee Philip Stead, Erin Stead
Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey
In the Lake of the Woods Tim O'Brien
Benediction Kent Haruf
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Maggie O'Farrell
Merivel: A Man of His Time Rose Tremain
The Silver Star Jeanette Walls
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love ed. Anne Fadiman
My Ideal Bookshelf ed. Thessaly LaForce, art by Jane Mount
The Colors of Imfamy Albert Cossery
Americanah Chimamanda Adichie
The Bottom of the Jar Abdellatif Laabi
Pure Andrew Miller
The Maid's Version Daniel Woodrell
13. The Baker's Dozen: Foodie Authors
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
Apricots on the Nile Colette Rossant
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes Elizabeth
Bard
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Ruth
Reichl
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant
Families in One New York Tenement Jane Ziegelman
1. Debut Books
Ablutions Patrick deWitt
The Man With the Dancing Eyes Sophie Dahl
In the Shadow of the Banyan Vaddey Ratner
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
Wonder R.J. Palacio
The Gift of Rain Tan Twan Eng
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair Nina Sankovitch
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara
2. 2013 Prize Winners
National Book Critic's Circle
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain
Caldecott Medal
This Is Not My Hat Jon Klassen
Pulitzer for Fiction
The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
Pulitzer for Biography
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the
Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss
Stella Prize
Mateship with Birds Carrie Tiffany
Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature David George Haskell
Orwell Prize
A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa A.T. Williams
National Book Award
The Good Lord Bird James McBride
3. History
Thunderstruck Erik Larson
Farming the Dust Bowl Lawrence Svobida
Philadelphia: Historic Exteriors and Interiors Gus Spector
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Denise Kiernan
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink
The Spririt Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Anne Fadiman
4. Biographies and Memoirs
Gift From the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and
an Unlikely Bride Alyssa Harad
What It Is Like To Go To War Karl Marlantes
Dear, Dear Brenda Henry Miller, Brenda Venus
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary
Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child
Who Became Theodore Roosevelt David McCullough
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller
Mortality Christopher Hitchens
Time's Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas
Arnold Bauer
The Mistress's Daughter A.M. Homes
Dreams in a Time of War Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey
from North Korea to Freedom in the West Blaine Harden
Grace: A Memoir Grace Coddington
Wave Sonali Deraniyagala
Grandfather's Journey Allen Say
Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami Gretel Ehrlich
5. RL Group Reads
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan
Last Night at the Lobster Stewart O'Nan
Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British Sarah Lyall
A Good American Alex George
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
6. LT Group or Shared Reads
419 Will Ferguson
Ashes and Diamonds Jerzy Andrzejewski
Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy who Became
Mark Twain Ron Powers
Juliet's Moon Ann Rinaldi
Stone Upon Stone Wieslaw Mysliwski
Last Friends Jane Gardam
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Regeneration Pat Barker
The Cardturner Louis Sachar
7. Orange Prize Nominees and Winners
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
NW Zadie Smith
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple
May We Be Forgiven A.M.Homes
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid Shani
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
8. Man Booker Prize Nominees and Winners
TransAtlantic Colum McCann
The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin
We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
Harvest Jim Crace
Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw
The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Madeline's Monthly TIOLI Challenge
In Red Magdalena Tulli
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and
War, 1937-1948 Madeleine Albright
The zigzag kid David Grossman
Restoration Rose Tremain
Wesley the Owl Stacey O'Brien
The Hired Man Aminatta Forna
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
The Amputated Memory Werewere Liking
10. Nobel Prize Winners
Herta Muller The Land of Green Plums
Isaac Bashevis Singer The Collected Stories
Imre Kertesz Fateless
Elie Wiesel The Accident
Mario Vargas Llosa Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
11. Companion Reads
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin
Case Histories Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn Kate Atkinson
Paradise of the Blind Duong Thu Huong
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer
1953 Elizabeth Winder
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Class Conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Claudia Johnson
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Therese Fowler
Mr. Bridge Evan S. Connell
Mrs. Bridge Evan S. Connell
How the Light Gets In Louise Penny
12. Miscellaneous
Mozart's Journey to Prague Eduard Morike
The People on Privilege Hill Jane Gardam
Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson
Splendors and Glooms Laura Amy Schlitz
The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout
Mary Coin Marisa Silver
The German Mujahid Boualem Sansal
Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien
The House of Special Purpose John Boyne
The Sign on Rosie's Door Maurice Sendak
A Sick Day for Amos McGee Philip Stead, Erin Stead
Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey
In the Lake of the Woods Tim O'Brien
Benediction Kent Haruf
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Maggie O'Farrell
Merivel: A Man of His Time Rose Tremain
The Silver Star Jeanette Walls
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love ed. Anne Fadiman
My Ideal Bookshelf ed. Thessaly LaForce, art by Jane Mount
The Colors of Imfamy Albert Cossery
Americanah Chimamanda Adichie
The Bottom of the Jar Abdellatif Laabi
Pure Andrew Miller
The Maid's Version Daniel Woodrell
13. The Baker's Dozen: Foodie Authors
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
Apricots on the Nile Colette Rossant
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes Elizabeth
Bard
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table Ruth
Reichl
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant
Families in One New York Tenement Jane Ziegelman
3lkernagh
Welcome back! Good categories - what a great way to capture all the reading you will be participating in!
5thornton37814
Dropping my star now that I've found you!
6owltype
Welcome back! I'm interested to see what kind of books you read this year, as you've got a lot of prize-winning categories.
7LittleTaiko
Loved Gift from the Sea! Something I palm to reread every few years.
