42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’

[Evelyn]

1. What are you reading for this category?

2. Which award did it get nominated for?
2018 National Books Awards
3. Is it a winner?
No it was just a nominee.

[Marie]

I read The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. It was Fiction Book of the Year 2008 in the British Book Awards (aka The Specsavers National Book Awards).

[Ruth]

What are you reading for this category?
I've just read Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls
2. Which award did it get nominated for?
The women's Prize for Fiction last year
3. Is it a winner?
Didn't win the prize but as far as I'm concerned it's a five star read, an absolutely gripping story, a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of a captured and enslaved Briseis. Highly readable though very grim in places.

[Virginia]

1. What are you reading for this category? The Graveyard Book.


2. Which award did it get nominated for? Hugo

3. Is it a winner? Yes, 2009.

[Joanne]

I read Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. I didn't enjoy the book that much but it was on my tbr for a long time, so I was glad to finally get to it.