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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Awards for Water for Elephants

Is Water for Elephants a contemporary classic? Maybe we'll all have a better opinion on this after we read it for the September meeting. Meanwhile, here is a list of the many awards this novel has brought home:

* 2006 Quill Award nominee for General Fiction
* 2007 Alex Awards selection
* Entertainment Weekly Best Novel of 2006 nominee
* New York Times Best Seller list for 12 weeks in 2006
* Book Sense #1 pick for June 2006
* Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse award for most popular book
* The paperback hit #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list on July 8, 2007

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