My Head Is Full of Books: Another Personal Challenge: The Women's Prize

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Another Personal Challenge: The Women's Prize

Women's Prize for Fiction, a personal challenge:

A. 2020 and forward -- read two of the finalists/winners for each year

B. 2010-2019 -- read one of the finalists/winners for each year.

The Women's Prize for Fiction (sometimes called The Orange Prize) is one of U.K.'s most prestigious literary awards. It is annually awarded to a female author of any nationality as long as their book was in English and it was published in the United Kingdom the previous year.

For the past four years, 2020-23, I've read seven Women's Prize winners/finalists. (The books circled in yellow.) For 2021 I need to read one more book.

From 2010-14 I've read eight books (red stars). The yellow starred books are ones I've already committed to read this year.

For the challenge I need to read at least one more book from 2015 and from 2016. I have the yellow circled books on my TBR, but if you would like to make a recommendation from any of the 12 listed books, I'd appreciate it.

2024 Key Dates for Women's Prize: