| | "The challenge for Book Awards IV will last for 10 months, from January 1 through November 1, 2010." My tentative list is below. Too many novels! The last three will probably be non-fiction.
1. Ha Jin, War Trash (PEN/Faulkner Award, 2005). Review here.
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Nobel, 2006). I had to quit at page 200, about half-way - the characters were not working for me, the love story seemed silly. I found the discussions about Western Christian and Islamic art interesting, though.
2. Rose Macauley, The Towers of Trebizond (James Tait Black Memorial, 1956). Review here.
3. Konrad Z. Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring (Pulitzer Prize - nonfiction, 1953). Review here
4. John Phillips Marquand, The Late George Apley (Pulitzer Prize - fiction, 1938) Review here.
5. Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island (Whitbread Award for Biography, 2001) Review here.
6. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Francis Parkman Prize, 1984). Review here.
7. John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (National Academies Communication Awards, 2005)
8. Jason Goodwin, On Foot to the Golden Horn (John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize, 1993)
9. Mark Jenkins, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger (L.A. Times Book Review, Best 100 Books of 1997)
10. Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (Prize for Non-Fiction awarded by the newspaper La Vanguardia, 1986)
Alternatives
Peter Carey, Jack Maggs (Commonwealth, 1998)
Christopher Koch, Highways to a War (Miles Franklin, 1996)
Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life, (Rhone-Poulenc Prize - UK's leading award for science books, 1991)
Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (LA Times Book Prize, 1997)
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