September PrizeCAT - A September CAT/KIT that won a prize

The September theme is to explore the prizewinners that are also responsive to a CAT or KIT this month. "Prizewinners" includes longlisted or shortlisted books.

This month's CATs and KITs include

*HistoryCAT - World War I or II
*CalendarCAT - August
*MysteryKIT - Upstairs/Downstairs
*AlphaKIT - V and C
*RandomKIT - Weather
*ScaredyKIT - Stephen King and family
*SFF-KIT - Gods/mythology

And don't forget to add your choice to the wiki!

Oh my, I think I can make a triple play this month! I plan on reading The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth for 2 other kits/cats (History and Calendar) and it won the PEN Translation prize in 2014. Yeah!

>2 Tess_W: A CAT trick!

I've checked whether my treebook and virtual TBR ROOTs have own anything but I don't think I have anything that fits

I’m planning to read The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino for the SFFKit, and it’s won the 2014 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize and the 2020 Russian Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award for Foreign Literature (neither a prize I’d heard of before).

Many thanks to DeltaQueen for discovering Australia's Flag Day. I'm planning to read Blackwattle Creek by Geoffrey McGeachin, an Australian crime novel which won a Ned Kelly Award and, thanks to Judy, also qualifies for the CalendarCAT. And it's available in KoboPlus!

The Danger Within (aka Death in Captivity) by Michael Gilbert won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (International Prize) in 1955. Set during World War II in a prisoner-of-war camp, it fits with this month's HistoryCAT challenge.

I finished The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers which won the Red Tentacle award for best novel and was nominated for the Hugo and fits for AlphaKIT C for this month.

I completed The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth which won the Pen Translation Prize in 2014.

I read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway which won the Pulitzer and works for CalendarCAT since it takes place in September.

Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger fits RandomKIT: Weather

This was my first book by Krueger. I enjoyed the American Native story that took Cork O’Connor to Thunder Bay in Canada to connect an elderly father with the son he’d never met.

My thanks to DeltaQueen50 for the BB.

Anthony Award (Nominee – Novel – 2008)
Audie Award (Finalist – Mystery – 2008)
Dilys Award (Winner – 2008)
Lovey Award (PI / Police Procedural – 2008)
Minnesota Book Awards (Winner – Genre Fiction – 2008)

I read The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown, which won the Edgar for best first novel in 1947, the only Edgar given at that time. It also has the C for AlphaKIT.

I read Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan which won the Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize in 2022 and the author's first name begins with C for AlphaKI.

I read Night Fall by Joan Aiken. Aiken was born in September and the book won an Edgar Alan Poe Award.

Currently reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. It fits the AlphaKIT and won the 2022 Hugo for Best Novella

COMPLETED A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.

Moving on the same author's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, which also fits the AlphaKIT and won the 2023 Locus for Best Novella

COMPLETED A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

I read The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino, a retelling of the Japanese creation myth of Izanami and Izanaki for the SFFKit. It won the 2014 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize and the 2020 Russian Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award for Foreign Literature.

Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1970, and it's got a C for AlphaKIT.

Bertie and the Seven Bodies by Peter Lovesey was shortlisted for the CWA's Last Laugh Dagger in 1990. It's also an upstairs/downstairs mystery for MysteryKIT.

I read Timothy Findley's The Wars for this month's HistoryCAT. It has received two Canadian prizes: the Governor General's Literary Award and the Toronto Book Award.

Starting City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop for the AlphaKIT. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel

Notes From an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell fit this month's RandomKIT and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year.

COMPLETED City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop for the AlphaKIT. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel

I read Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan for this month's challenge. The book fits this month's SFFKIT: Gods, godlike beings, and mythology

I just finished Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran, which won the 2011 Anthony Award for Best Critical Nonfiction--though frankly I'm surprised, as I thought it was pretty disorganized and had several typos. But the book also fits this month's AlphaKIT (C) and CalendarCAT (Christie was born on September 15).