2 + 0 + 1 + 7: brenpike's 2017 Category Challenge

2017 Prize Winners

Man Booker Intl Prize A Horse Walks Into A Bar David Grossman
Bailey's Women' Prize for Fiction The Power Naomi Alderman
Wellcome Book Prize Mend the Living (The Heart) Maylis de Kerangal
National Book Award Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward
Booker Prize Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders

Booker Prize

Exit West Mohsin Hamid (2017 short list)
Days Without End Sebastian Barry (2017 long list)
Judas Amos Oz (2017 Int short list)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy
(2017 long list)
Swing Time Zadie Smith (2017 long list)
Home Fire Kamila Shamsie (2017 long list)
The History of Wolves Emily Fridlund (2017 short list)
Autumn Ali Smith (2017 short list)
Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor (2017 long list)
Elmet Fiona Mozley (2017 short list)
4 3 2 1 Paul Auster (2017 short list)

The Women's Prize for Fiction

First Love Gwendoline Riley (2017 short list)
Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo (2017 short list)
The Dark Circle Linda Grant (2017 short list)

American Authors Challenge

British Authors Challenge

Non-Fiction Reading Challenge

The Lost City of the Monkey God Douglas Preston
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith
Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 Alfred Brophy
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Kate Moore
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition Paul Watson
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island Liza Jessie Peterson

Biographies/Memoirs

Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood Trevor Noah
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A.Rey Louise Borden
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Tilar Mazzeo
Hunger Roxane Gay
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie, Jr.
Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West Sally Denton
Unbelievable: My Front-Row seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History Katy Tur

History

Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory Lydia Reeder
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For David McCullough
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes Dan Egan

Non-Conformers

The Red Collar Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Trump Survival Guide Gene Stone
Georgia Dawn Tripp
Dark at the Crossing Elliot Ackerman
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
Human Acts Han Kang
Selection Day Aravind Adiga
The Folded Earth Anuradha Roy
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer Fredrik Backman
Out of Bounds Val McDermid
Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly
What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America Ed by Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians
Signs for Lost Children Sarah Moss
Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout
The Revolution of the Moon Andrea Camilleri
The Tidal Zone Sarah Moss
The Invisible Mile David Coventry
The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery
The Weight of Ink Rachel Kadish
Quiet Until the Thaw Alexandra Fuller
Camino Island John Grisham
The Nakano Thrift Shop Hiromi Kawakami
The Velveteen Daughter Laurel Davis Huber
Glass Houses Louise Penny
The Leavers Lisa Ko
My Name is Leon Kit de Waal
Leopard at the Door Jennifer McVeigh
The Twelve-Mile Straight Eleanor Henserson
A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro
The Good People Hannah Kent
Turtles All the Way Down John Green
Five-Carat Soul James McBride
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
Lines Suzy Lee

*Pulitzer Prize winners

Have a great reading year! Nice choices of category :)

Happy 2017 reading!

Happy reading!

Hope you enjoy all the books for your challenge. Happy New Year!