Long Term Reading Projects

1. The Pulitzer Project

Host:3M
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juanot Díaz
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  

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2. The Printz Project (Winners and Honor Books)


Host: Suey and Jessica
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• how i live now by Meg Rosoff
• Skellig by David Almond
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• the first part last by Angela Johnson
• Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
• Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
• A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
  
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
• Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  
• Dodger by Terry Pratchett
  
• The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
  
• Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
  
• Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
  

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3. The Carnegie Medal Project

Host: N/A
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• Skellig by David Almond
• River Boy by Tim Bowler
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
• Wolf by Gillian Cross
• The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
• The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
• Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeves
• A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
• The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
• Tamar by Mal Peet
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
• Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin
• Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
  
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
• Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
• The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland
  
• The Wool-Pack by Cynthia Harnett
  
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
  
• The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
  

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4. Children's Classics Project

Host: N/A
When: No time limit
Books To Read:

• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  
• Just William by Richmal Crompton
  
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
  
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
• The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton

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5. The Newbery Medal Project

Host: N/A
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
  
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
  
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
  
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
  
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
  
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  
• The Grey King by Susan Cooper
  
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
  
• The High King by Lloyd Alexander
  
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
  
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle