Thursday, April 17, 2008

PRIZE WINNERs (BOOKS, of course).

Pulitzers Prize Winners
Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
History: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe
Biography: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, by John Matteson
Poetry: Time and Materials, by Robert Hass and
Failure, by Philip Schultz
General Nonfiction: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, by Saul Friedlander

2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
Fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Children's Literature: The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick
Children's Illustrated: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, by Mo Willems


PS I have not read ANY of them. I do plan to read Knuffle Bunny, I believe it's one the the Summer Reading Selections.

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