Well, none of the categories are 0/10 any longer:
1. Shakespeare-related (2/10)
Shakespeare: The World As a Stage, Bill Bryson
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, James Shapiro
2. Poetry (1/10)
Red Bird, Mary Oliver
3. Biography (1/10)
Shakespeare: The World As a Stage, Bill Bryson
4. Contemporary young adult (9/10)
Sweet, Hereafter, Angela Johnson
A Wish After Midnight, Zetta Elliott
The Clearing, Heather Davis
The Things a Brother Knows, Dana Reinhardt
The Six Rules of Maybe, Deb Caletti
Extraordinary, Nancy Werlin
Kissing Tennessee, Kathi Appelt
My Most Excellent Year, Steve Kluger
Habibi, Naomi Shihab Nye
5. Children's non-fiction (4/10)
Honeybees: Letters From the Hive, Stephen Buchmann
The Boys' War, Jim Murphy
How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space?, William Pogue
Bloody Scotland, Terry Deary
6. Science fiction (1/10)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
7. History (9/10)
Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews, Melvin Konner
The Boys' War, Jim Murphy
The Imperial Cruise, James Bradley
Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides
Playing the Enemy, John Carlin
The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
Helluva Town, Richard Goldstein
Hellhound on his Trail, Hampton Sides
A Nation Rising, Kenneth C. Davis
8. Mystery (5/10)
Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie
The Seven Dials Mystery, Agatha Christie
The Mapping of Love and Death, Jacqueline Winspear
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley
A River in the Sky, Elizabeth Peters
The God of the Hive, Laurie R. King
9. Written before 1900 (3/10)
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Roughing It, Mark Twain
10. Pulitzer winners (3/10)
Among Schoolchildren, Tracy Kidder
The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
Red Bird, Mary Oliver
(Post pic from my collection; location unknown but probably Yosemite.)
2 comments:
If I read a Man Booker Prize or NBA fiction winner (or finalist) chances are very high that I will really like it. That is not always true of pulitzer winners.
I just finished the Pam Grier biography. It was very good. My manager enjoyed the Carol Burnett bio.
I'm usually not a big fan of Pulitzer fiction winners (exceptions: Gilead and People of the Book; both awesome), but the non-fiction categories are often awesome. (Have you read The Hemingses of Monticello? It's loooong, but so worth it!)
I've heard good things about both the Grier and the Burnett bios (and know virtually nothing about either woman!) so I'll keep an eye out for them. Thanks!
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