Challenge: Sunshine Smackdown - Battle of the Prizes

The list-obsessed blogger over at Rose City Reader has laid down the gauntlet & I have taken up the challenge.

Here's the deal:

Chose three books that you have not read before:

1) One that won both the Pulitzer and the National (here is a list of double dippers);

2) One that won the Pulitzer but not the National (Pulitzer winners are here); and

3) One that won the National but not the Pulitzer (National winners are here).

OPTION: For those who have already read all six of the double-dippers, or otherwise do not want to read one of those six, pick two Pulitzer winners and two National winners for a total of four books.

Read all books between May Day and Labor Day. Overlap with other challenges is allowed -- and encouraged! The Pulitzer Project and The National Book Award Project are logical crossovers. The great thing is, for those working on both these lists, completing the challenge means reading three books, but crossing four items off the lists.

I'll be reading:

1) For my double dipper - Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
2) Pulitzer - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
3) National Book Award - Sophie's Choice by William Styron (confession, I've read Sophie's Choice, but it was long ago & far away & I was younger then & skimmed chunks of it)

Cool challenge - looking forward to all 3 books.

Thanks, Rose City Reader!