Some Progress Reports

I have been paying attention to some of the reading awards this year. Here is a progress report of sorts of how successful I am. I was concentrating on the Giller, but since I own all the Governor General nominees in fiction, I will likely end up reading those too. The Booker, at this point I will read the few I have and maybe the rest of the short list. I plan to read the winner but the bookstores do not seem to have it.

Booker Awards:

• Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate) - Getting for Christmas
• Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) - Waiting for the bookstore to get it back
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
• What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street)
• Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann) - Own but have not read.
• Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster) - Still need to track down a copy.
• Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
• Winnie & Wolf by A.N.Wilson (Hutchinson)

Giller Award:

• David Chariandy for his novel "Soucouyant" (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Sharon English for her short-story collection "Zero Gravity" (The Porcupine's Quill)
• Barbara Gowdy for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins Canada)
• Elizabeth Hay for her novel "Late Nights on Air" (McClelland & Stewart)
• Lawrence Hill for his novel "The Book of Negroes" (HarperCollins Canada) - Own
• Paulette Jiles for her novel "Stormy Weather" (HarperCollins Canada) - Own
• D.R. MacDonald for his novel "Lauchlin of the Bad Heart" (HarperCollins Canada) - Own
• Claire Mulligan for her novel "The Reckoning of Boston Jim" (Brindle & Glass Publishing)
• Mary Novik for her novel "Conceit" (Doubleday Canada) - Own
• Daniel Poliquin for his novel "A Secret Between Us," translated by Donald Winkler (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Michael Winter for his novel "The Architects Are Here" (Penguin Books Canada)
• Alissa York for her novel "Effigy" (Random House Canada) - Own
• Richard Wright for his novel "October" (HarperCollins Canada)
• Michael Ondaatje for his novel "Diversadero" (McClelland & Stewart)
• M.G. Vassanji for his novel "The Assassin's Song" (Doubleday Canada)

Governor Generals Award:
Fiction:
David Chariandy, Vancouver, for Soucouyant
Barbara Gowdy, Toronto, for Helpless
Michael Ondaatje, Toronto, for Divisadero
Heather O’Neill, Montreal, for Lullabies for Little Criminals - Own
M.G. Vassanji, Toronto, for The Assassin’s Song - Own

Non-fiction:
Rodrigo Bascuñán and Christian Pearce for Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent
John English for Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968
Stephanie Nolen for 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Karolyn Smardz Frost for I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Bridget Stutchbury for Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World’s Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them