Awards in your library

Summary: 48 Awards.

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

• The I Ching or Book of Changes by C.F. Baynes (1 - 14th century BCE)
• Complete Writings: The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• Discourse on Method And The Meditations by Rene Descartes (1637)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan (1684)
• The New Science of Giambattista Vico (Cornell Paperbacks) by Giambattista Vico (1725)
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
• An Essay on the Principle of Population by T. R. Malthus (1803)
• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky (1957)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan (2006 edition)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Accumulation on a World Scale by Samir Amin (scholarship/non-fiction)

AKO Literatuurprijs Nominatie

• Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria by Tijs Goldschmidt (1995)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern (Social Sciences, 2009)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) by Peter Novick (1989)

Ambassador Book Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (American Studies, 1993)

American Sociological Association Section Award for Distinguished Scholarship

• Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1990)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam by Lawrence Freedman (Silver medal, 2002)

Bancroft Prize

• Deterrence in American Foreign Policy by Alexander George (1975)

BBC's Big Read

• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (Best loved novel, 2003, No 149)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (1993)

C. Wright Mills Award

• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China by Theda Skocpol (1979)
• Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier (1999)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff (2000)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William A. Dembski (Christianity and Culture, 2000)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Galaxy Books) by Leo Marx
• The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste. Croix
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
• What Is History? by Edward Hallet Carr
• The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste. Croix (1982)
• Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations by Justin Rosenberg (1994)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea by Leon V. Sigal (1998)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Globalization)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Strategy)

George Louis Beer Prize

• A Constructed Peace by Marc Trachtenberg (2000)

The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order

• Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers by Richard E. Neustadt (1988)
• The Real World Order: Zones of Peace, Zones of Turmoil (Comparative Politics & the International Political Economy,) by Max Singer (1996)
• Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret E. Keck (2000)

Guardian 1000

• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (War and travel)

IPPY

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

J. David Greenstone Prize

• Unsettled States Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Wilder House Se by Ian S. Lustick (1995)
• The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change (Princeton Studies in International History and P by Hendrik Spruyt (1996)

James Henry Breasted Prize

• The World of Thought in Ancient China by Benjamin I. Schwartz (1986)

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize

• The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization by Walter Mignolo (1995)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff (1994)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (Current Interest, 1987)
• Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger (Current Interest, 1994)
• Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier (Current Interest, 1999)
• The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century Volume 2) by Fernand Braudel (History, 1983)
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Science and Technology, 1994)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library) by Alfred North Whitehead (23)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)
• The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) by Ian Hacking (98)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (16)
• Death by Government by R. Rummel (24)
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye (47)
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (76)

National Book Award finalist

• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore, JR. (History and Biography, 1967)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Kenneth E. Boulding (Philosophy and Religion, 1970)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (Criticism, 1992)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Criticism, 1978)
• Forms of Talk (University of Pennsylvania Publications in Conduct & Communication) by Erving Goffman (General Nonfiction, 1981)
• Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould (General Nonfiction, 1987)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (1992)
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (1994)

New York Times bestseller

• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (General, 1943)
• The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, 2005)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Complete Writings: The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (2009, No. 34)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan (2003)

Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History

• A Constructed Peace by Marc Trachtenberg (2000)

Phi Beta Kappa Award

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Science, 1997)

Pulitzer Prize

• On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (General Non-Fiction, 1979)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (General Non-Fiction, 1993)
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (General Non-Fiction, 1995)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (General Non-Fiction, 1998)
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (General Non-Fiction, 1999)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General Non-Fiction, 1988)
• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (General Non-Fiction, 1990)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (History, 1993)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (General, 1991)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (General, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (1998)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General, 1989)
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (General, 1995)
• Fire In The Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George Johnson (General, 1997)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (General, 2006)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• On War by Carl von Clausewitz (2008)
• Complete Writings: The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (2008)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (2008)

Victoria Schuck Award

• War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa by Joshua S. Goldstein (2002)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1997, No 91)