My Reading Lists and Challenges

My 2020 Reading Projects and challenges. 

Updated:08/19/20

I.

Read the current Pulitzer Prize winner for literature. Read previous books that interest me.

Year	Title	Author	Read
2020	The Dutch House (finalist)	Patchett, Ann	Nov. '19
2020	Nickel Boys	Whitehead, Colson	Sep. '19
2019	The Overstory	Powers, Richard	Aug. ‘19
2019	There There (finalist)	Orange, Tommy	Feb. ‘19
2019	The Great Believers (finalist)	Makkai, Rebecca	Apr. ‘19
2018	Less	Greer, Andrew	Mar ‘18
2017	The Underground Railroad	Whitehead, Colson	Jul ‘17
2016	The Sympathizer	Nyugen, Viet	Sep. ‘16
2015	All the Light We Cannot See	Doerr, Anthony	Aug '15
2014	The Goldfinch	Tartt, Donna	Dec '14
2013	Orphan Master's Son	Johnson, Adam
2013	The Snow Child (Finalist)	Ivey, Eowyn	May ‘12
2011	A Visit from the Goon Squad	Egan, Jennifer
2010	Tinkers	Harding, Paul	Aug '20
2009	Olive Kitteridge	Strout, Elizabeth	Mar '10
2008	A Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Diaz, Junot	Jan ‘16
2007	The Road	McCarthy, Cormac
2006	March	Brooks, Geraldine	Apr '08
2005	Gilead	Robinson, Marianne	Apr ‘19
2004	The Known World	Jones, Edward
2004	Evidence of Things Unseen (Finalist)	Wiggins, Marianne	Mar ‘11
2003	Middlesex	Eugenides, Jeffrey	Oct '06
2002	Empire Falls	Russo, Richard	Apr '05
2001	The Amazing Kavalier and Clay	Charbon, Micahel
2000	Interpreter of Maladies	Lahiri, Jhumpa
2000	Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Finalist)	Proulx, E. Annie	2015
1999	The Hours	Cunningham, Michael
1999	The Poisonwood Bible (Finalist)	Kingsolver, Barbara	1999
1995	Stone Diaries	Shields, Carol	1995
1994	Shipping News	Proulx, Annie	1997
1992	A Thousand Acres	Smiley, Jane	1993
1991	The Things They Carried (Finalist)	O’Brien, Tim	2009
1989	Breathing Lessons	Tyler, Anne
1988	Beloved	Morrison, Toni	2010
1986	Lonesome Dove	McMurty, Larry	Apr 2020
1983	The Color Purple	Walker, Alice	2009
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces	Toole, John Kennedy	2013
1977	Roots (Special Pulitzer)	Haley, Alex	1977
1973	The Optimist’s Daughter	Welty, Eudora
1972	Angle of Repose	Stegner, Wallace	1995
1961	To Kill a Mockingbird	Lee, Harper	2008
1953	The Old Man and the Sea	Hemingway, Ernest	1972
1948	Tales of the South Pacific	Michener, James	May ‘17
1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John
1939	The Yearling	Rawles, Marjorie K.	Jan ‘16
1937	Gone with the Wind	Mitchell, Margaret	1974
1932	The Good Earth	Buck, Pearl S.	1973
1928	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Wilder, Thorton
1925	So Big	Ferber, Edna	May '20
1921	Age of Innocence	Wharton, Edith	Apr ‘16

II.

My National Book Award Challenge (click hyperlink)

My goal is to read two books for each award year

2019 completed

III.
Read the Printz Award and honor books each year
Highlighted titles=READ
2020 Awards go to: 

  Michael L. Printz Award (Best YA literature of the year) 2020

• Dig by A.S. King- Award
• The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi- Honor
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki- Honor
• Ordinary Hazards: a Memoir by Nikki Grimes-Honor
• Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean- Honor

IV.
2020 Audiobook Challenge

My goal is to listen to more books than last year, which was 42.

1. Blowout by Rachel Maddow, read by the author

2. Normal People by Sally Rooney, read by Aoife McMahan

3. Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor, read by Steve West

4. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham, read by Geoffrey Cantor

5. Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart, read by Christina Moore

6. Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton

7. East of Eden by John Steinbeck, read by Richard Poe

8. Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart, read by Christina Moore

9. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman, read by Michael Sheen

10. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, read by Jayne Entwistle

11. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, read by Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Tantoo Cardinal, and Bryce Dallas Howard

12. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, read by Allyson Ryan

13.  Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais, read by Katherine Lee McEwan and Bahni Turpin
14. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, read by Robert Glenister
15. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, read by Peter Coyote
16. The Restaurant at the End of the World by Douglas Adams, read by Martin Freeman
17. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart, read by Christina Moore
18. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coats, read by Joe Morton
19. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, read by Robert Glenister
20. Hinds Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard, read by Nadia May
21. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, read by Rebecca Lowman and Abigail Levasch
22. Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore, read by Brittany Pressley
23. Weather by Jenny Offill, read by Cassandra Campbell
24. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore, read by Cassandra Campbell
25. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, read by Will Patton