tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806649299337708692011-08-02T11:54:31.406-07:00Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13978371169108528359noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880664929933770869.post-75631331637781599422009-06-18T11:33:00.000-07:002009-09-01T11:28:53.321-07:00<div align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WE6Zjj0fTks/SkPsb-J8BVI/AAAAAAAAKgM/5bdiJYn0QgY/s1600-h/national_book_award_medal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351380747531584850" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 160px; cursor: pointer; height: 160px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WE6Zjj0fTks/SkPsb-J8BVI/AAAAAAAAKgM/5bdiJYn0QgY/s320/national_book_award_medal.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Welcome to the National Book Awards Challenge hosted by <a href="http://rodolfosreviews.blogspot.com/">Rachel</a> and <a href="http://lifeandtimesofanewnewyorker.blogspot.com/">Amanda</a>.<br /><br />This challenge is in honor of the <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/">National Book Foundation's</a> 60th Anniversary of the <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008.html">National Book Award</a>.<br /><br />The National Book Foundation will be celebrating the anniversary all of July with various people commenting on past winners. (I will post a link as soon as their blog is up.) The blog's tributes will be written by a select group of commentators composed of past Winners, Finalists, judges, and other prominent writers, editors, bloggers, librarians, booksellers, and critics.<br /><br />If you'd like to participate, here are some options for you:<br /><br /><strong>Option 1: Bronze Medal</strong><br />Read one book from the list between June 15th and December 31st.<br /><br /><strong>Option 2: Silver Medal</strong><br />Read three books from the list between June 15th and December 31st.<br /><br /><strong>Option 3: Gold Medal</strong><br />Read five books from the list between June 15th and December 31st.<br /><br />Please post links to your <a href="http://nationalbookchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/06/link-to-your-review.html">reviews here</a>.<br /><br /><strong>National Book Awards List</strong><br /><br />1950 The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren<br />1951 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner</div><div align="left">1952 From Here to Eternity - James Jones<br />1953 Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison<br />1954 The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow<br />1955 A Fable - William Faulkner<br />1956 Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara<br />1957 The Field of Vision - Wright Morris<br />1958 The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever<br />1959 The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud<br />1960 Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth<br />1961 The Waters of Kronos - Conrad Richter<br />1962 The Moviegoer - Walker Percy<br />1963 Morte D'Urban - J.F. Powers<br />1964 The Centaur - John Updike<br />1965 Herzog - Saul Bellow<br />1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter<br />1967 The Fixer - Bernard Malamud<br />1968 The Eigth Day - Thornton Wilder<br />1969 Steps - Jerzy Kosinski<br />1970 Them - Joyce Carol Oates<br />1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow<br />1972 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor<br />1973 Chimera - John Barth<br />1973 Augustus - John Williams<br />1974 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon<br />1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />1975 Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone<br />1975 The Hair of Harold Roux - Thomas Williams<br />1976 JR - William Gaddis<br />1977 The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner<br />1978 Blood Tie - Mary Lee Settle<br />1979 Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien<br />1980 Stained Glass - William F. Buckley, Jr.<br />1980 The World According to Garp - John Irving<br />1980 Bendigo Shafter - Louis L'Amour<br />1980 The Green Ripper - John D.Mac Donald<br />1980 Jem - Frederick Pohl<br />1980 Sophie's Choice - William Styron<br />1980 The Book of Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin, Jr.<br />1981 Birdy - William Wharton<br />1981 Sister Wolf - Ann Arensberg<br />1981 The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever<br />1981 Plains Song - Wright Morris<br />1982 Dew Dales Loves Sophie to Death - Robb Forman<br />1982 So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell<br />1982 Rabbit is Rich - John Updike<br />1983 The Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor<br />1983 The Color Purple - Alice Walker<br />1983 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty<br />1984 Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr<br />1984 Victory Over Japan - Ellen Gilchrist<br />1985 White Noise - Don DeLillo<br />1985 Easy in the Islands - Bob Shacochis<br />1986 World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow<br />1987 Paco's Story - Larry Heinemann<br />1988 Paris Trout - Pete Dexter<br />1989 Spartina - John Casey<br />1990 Middle Passage - Charles Johnson<br />1991 Mating - Norman Rush<br />1992 All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy<br />1993 The Shipping News - Annie Proulx<br />1994 A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis<br />1995 Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth<br />1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett Ship<br />1997 Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier<br />1998 Charming Billy - Alice McDermott<br />1999 Waiting - Ha Jin<br />2000 In America - Susan Sontag<br />2001 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen<br />2002 Three Junes - Julia Glass<br />2003 The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard<br />2004 The News from Paraguay - Lily Tuck<br />2005 Europe Central - William T. Vollmann<br />2006 The Echo Maker - Richard Powers<br />2007 Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson<br />2008 Shadow Country - Peter Matthiessen</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/880664929933770869-7563133163778159942?l=nationalbookchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13978371169108528359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880664929933770869.post-60141927643763845702009-06-18T11:30:00.000-07:002009-06-25T14:30:06.465-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WE6Zjj0fTks/SkPsWKcyWTI/AAAAAAAAKgE/7T5WtX1LNdY/s1600-h/national_book_award_medal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WE6Zjj0fTks/SkPsWKcyWTI/AAAAAAAAKgE/7T5WtX1LNdY/s320/national_book_award_medal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351380647752653106" border="0" /></a><br />Congratulations on joining the National Book Awards Challenge! Please link your reviews here.<br /><br />Please submit links for the books type your name and then the name of the book and the author in parenthesis. Here's an example: Amanda (Three Junes - Julia Glass). Please link to your review post and not to your main blog site.<br /><br />Thanks again for helping celebrate the National Book <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Award's</span> 60<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> Anniversary!<br /><br /><script src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=nycbookgirl&amp;postid=18Jun2009a" type="text/javascript"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/880664929933770869-6014192764376384570?l=nationalbookchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13978371169108528359noreply@blogger.com0