Jans Award Winning Challenge

Hi, I only recently discovered this group and I really have enjoyed reading some of the category challenge threads over the last few days

I thought I would join in for 2016 and focus on reading books that have won awards. I've chosen 8 different categories and I'm aiming for 5 books in each category, so 40 in total, leaving me room to keep plugging away at the 1001 books challenge.

I'm looking forward to discovering some new authors and great books. Not sure how the wiki works though if someone could explain that would be great, thanks.

Categories

Autobiography/ Biography

Children/ Teen

Translated

Indigenous Author

Debut Novel

Historical Fiction / Non Fiction

Controversial

1001Books to Read Before You Die ( not award winners)

Autobiography / Biography


1. Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Life Joan Hendrick
1995: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin
2006: Pulitzer Prize Biography
2006 Ambassador Book Award
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award

3. The Happiest Refugee Anh Do
Winner, ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Book of the Year.
Winner, ABIA Biography of the Year 2011.
Winner, ABIA Newcomer of the Year 2011.
Overall Winner, Indie Book of the Year Award 2011.
Winner, Non-fiction Indie Book of the Year 2011.
Winner, The 2011 Nielsen BookData Booksellers' (ABA) Choice Award.

4. When We Were Outlaws Jeanne Cordova
2011 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD winner: Lesbian Memoir/Biography
2012 PUBLISHING TRIANGLE : Judy Grahn lesbian non-fiction award
2012 GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY AWARD
2013 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD: Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
2013 RAINBOW LIST : The GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Association

5. The Auschwitz Volunteer Witold Pilecki
2012 Winner PROSE Award
2013 Winner Silver Award Benjamin Franklin Awards

Children/ Teen
1. The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time Mark Haddon
Whitbread Book of The Year
Booktrust Teenage Fiction Award
Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize

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Translated

1. Silence Shusaku Endo
1966 Tanizaki Prize

2. Confrontation Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
1999: Malay Literary Award consolation prize

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Indigenous Author

1. That Deadman Dance Kim Scott
2011 – Miles Franklin Literary Award
2011 – Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
2011 – Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

2. Snake Cradle Bobbi Sykes.
1997: Age Book of the Year
1998: National Biography Award
1998: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award

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Debut Novel
1. Our Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller
2015 Desmond Elliot Prize

2. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Elmear McBride
Winner of 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize
Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize
Winner of 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

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Historical - fiction or non-fiction

1. All That I Am Anna Funder
2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award

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Controversial

1. The Hand that Signed the Paper Helen Demidenko
1995 Miles Franklin Literary Award

2. The Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel JM Coetzee
1983 Booker Prize

3. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
1997 Booker Prize

4. The Narrow Road to The Deep North Richard Flanagan
2014 Booker Prize
2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award

5. When Everything Feels Like the Movies Raziel Reid
2014 Governor General’s Literary Award

1001 Books to Read Before You Die -(not necessarily with awards
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Welcome to the challenge! I hope you will enjoy the company!
There's a separate thread in this group where you can ask about technical details: http://www.librarything.com/topic/196074.

Welcome to the challenge. I would like to hear about your 1001 books as well so I hope you mention them here too.

Welcome. Hope you enjoy being here as much as I do.

Welcome! Looking forward to following along!

Looking forward very much to seeing your choices!

Welcome! Like the others I'm looking forward to see what books you choose to fill your categories.

Welcome to the challenge. Looking forward to following your 2016 reading.

Welcome aboard! I'll be interested to see what shows up in your translated category in particular :)

thanks everyone :) I'm getting a nice list of possible books together and finding some great reads on other challenge lists. can't wait for the new year now

Welcome! I look forward to following along, you have some quite promising categories. (I also have an award category, so I expect some inspiration ;) )

I am a little late with my "Welcome to the challenge"! Better late than never. ;-)

I am a big reader of translated, debut and historical fiction so I will be looking forward to any 'new-to-me' books you may read. Your Controversial category has also caught my eye. Looking forward to following your 2016 reading.

Welcome to LibraryThing and the 2016 Category Challenge. I'll look forward to following along.

Welcome, and have fun this year!

Welcome! I also do the 1001 list too so also interested in that.

thanks for the welcomes, I've got a huge list of possibles I'm working through and I've started listing the ones I've decided to read. I've had a great time researching for this and reading other peoples lists.
I think I might change my 'other' category to my 1001 books list.
can't wait for the new year to start :)

This looks like a great set of categories, I need to get back to the 1001 challenge as I've had a few years away from it. I look forward to seeing what you select

Great categories! I think you will enjoy Silence.