I am just joining this website, but have had this goal for some time. I have these little cards posted all around my desk, with lists of the Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, National and Modern Library award-winners. I got the lists at Powell’s in POrtland, which is the best bookstore on the earth. Sigh. But I live in NYC, and sorry, the Strand is a pitiful contrast.
Anyway, here are the books I”ve finished thus far:
2001 The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
1999 Waiting, Ha Jin
1993 The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Not as many as I thought. I have to get on it. Although I’m sharing my eyes with several other reading goals, so this may take a lifetime. Perhaps I should focus on one award category at at time, like they suggest you pay off your smallest credit card first, then spend all that money (time) on the other ones? hmmm. In that case I will have to finish Pulitzer first and get back to National. Now I’m getting ridiculous…
