We are very happy that the Award-Winning-Books Reading Challenge that we are hosting this year has really taken off. Currently, we have 46 participants who have joined the challenge. Our database (which Iphigene takes pains in updating regularly) has an average of 36-38 book reviews per month from participants coming from all over (check out our April database here). That, in itself, I feel is a measure of success! For those of you who have not joined us yet, you can still sign up here until end of November. 
Pansing Books has also kindly extended their sponsorship of book prizes until December. Here are some of the goodies that you should be expecting between July-December.
Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge
2006 Hugo Awards winner
The Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
2008 Commonwealth Best First Book
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Man Booker prize winner 1998
Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
Winner for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012
Dark Matter by Juli Zeh
The Caroline Schlegel Award, German Book Award, Bremen Literature Award, Rauris Literature Award, Hölderlin Award for Emerging Talent, Ernst Toller Award, Carl Amery Award, Per Olov Enquist Award and the French Prix Cévennes for Best European Novel.
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Booker Prize winner 1981, Booker of Bookers in 1993 and 2008
I’ll be adding another review next week. Congrats on the success!
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