AwardsCAT General Thread

Here are the monthly topics and hosts for the AwardsCAT:

January -- Year's Best lists and Costa Book Award -- hosted by DeltaQueen50
February -- Canada Reads competition and The Morning News Tournament of Books -- hosted by RidgewayGirl
March -- The Newbery and Caldecott medals and other Genre Awards (any genre prize not already featured) -- hosted by cbl_tn
April -- International Dublin Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize -- hosted by luvamystery65
May -- Man Booker International Prize and the Edgar Awards -- hosted by jonesli
June -- The PEN Literary Awards and the National Book Award (USA) -- hosted by clue
July -- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and any Science Fiction/Fantasy award -- hosted by sturlington
August -- Miles Franklin Award and the Stonewall Book Award -- hoisted by LisaMorr
September -- Man Booker Prize and O. Henry Award -- hosted by Kristelh
October -- Nobel Prize for Literature and the Giller Prize -- hosted by rabbitprincess
November -- Local Awards (a regional prize of your choice) -- hosted by Chrischi_HH
December -- International awards (a prize from a country you aren't living in) -- hosted by Kistelh

Just posting to make it easier to follow. :-)

I am going to be putting up January's AwardCat in a day or so but I have no idea how to set up a Wiki page. Anyone here who knows how and would like to go ahead and set one up for this Cat would be greatly appreciated.

I'll start one for you.

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/2017CC_AwardsCAT#2017_AwardsCAT_Chall...

I don't have time right now to fill in all the categories, but that should be fairly easy.

>3 DeltaQueen50:, >5 majkia: I added the categories.

Thank you so much, Majkia and Casvelyn - You two deserve a treat:



Looks like we are all set. :)

January's AwardCat Thread is up and can be found at: http://www.librarything.com/topic/243420

February's AwardCAT thread is live!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/246684#

I found this while browsing through award book lists for 2017 long list PEN Literature https://pen.org/2017-pen-america-literary-awards-longlists/ if anyone wants to do some long range planning for June.

Apparently this is the last year Baileys is going to be sponsoring the Women's Prize for Fiction

The March thread is up for Newbery & Caldecott Medals and genre awards!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/249065

Completed Up a Road Slowly, the 1967 Newberry winner.

April AwardsCAT thread is up

https://www.librarything.com/topic/252082

This year's Bailey's short list

>15 Robertgreaves: Thanks, Robert! I'm always excited to see this list.

I originally posted to the Random thread (oops), it has been a long day! I posted the May AwardsCAT thread a little early, because I won't be near a computer this weekend and I didn't want to forget.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/254804

The June thread for the Awards CAT is up (The National Book Award and the PEN Award),

http://www.librarything.com/topic/257228

The July thread is up (Bailey's/Orange Price and SF/F Awards): http://www.librarything.com/topic/259626

The August thread is up (Stonewall Book Awards and Miles Franklin Literary Award: August AwardsCAT

The October AwardsCAT thread is up. This month's awards will be the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Giller Prize. http://www.librarything.com/topic/269391

I can't believe it's the middle of the month already?...again?...

>23 rabbitprincess: I know! It's crazy. I posted a day early because I will be travelling a lot today.

Voting has begun on the 2018 CATs. There are two polls:

List of proposed new (or new-ish) CATs: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y88PSFM
Poll gauging interest in RandomCAT and whether you'd be OK with turning it into a KIT for 2018 if necessary: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YVG3679

You have until October 16 at 11:59 PDT to vote on the proposed CATs. Once the results are in, we'll be in a better position to decide whether to keep the RandomCAT as a CAT or turn it into a KIT.

If you're wondering about how the CATs would be structured (or could be structured), you can discuss them on the 2018 CATs Planning Thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/269263

I'll post the November thread on Sunday or Monday, please be a bit patient with me. :) (If you want to start planning for November, the RandomCAT thread is already up!)

The November thread is up! I'm looking forward to see which awards and books you'll choose. :)

Thought I would give everyone a heads up:

RE: the wikis.

I posted here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/274788#6241961

And was referred to another thread where the wikis have been turned off due to spam? Until they get some kind of fix.

I posted the December thread for AwardsCat today; http://www.librarything.com/topic/274832#