Awards in your library

Summary: 24 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1995)
• The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Pura Belpre Medal Book Author (Awards)) by Margarita Engle (2007)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics) by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Fiction, 1999)
• The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur (Hard Knock Life, 2010)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama ( Change Your World, 2010)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur (2001)
• Tupac Shakur Legacy by Jamal Joseph (2008)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur (2001)
• Tupac Shakur Legacy by Jamal Joseph (2008)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Pura Belpre Medal Book Author (Awards)) by Margarita Engle (2006)

Bram Stoker

• On Writing by Stephen King (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, 2000)

British Book Award

• My Life by Bill Clinton (Biography of the Year, 2005)

Canada Reads

• Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill (Winner, 2009)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill (Best Book, Canada and Caribbean, 2008)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) by Benjamin Graham (Investing)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (1978)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama (2009, shortlist)

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (2008)

Hugo Nominee

• On Writing by Stephen King (Best Related Book (Nomination below cutoff), 2001)

International Horror Guild Nominee

• On Writing by Stephen King (Best Non-Fiction, 2000)

Locus

• On Writing by Stephen King (Best Non-Fiction, 2001)

National Book Award

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (History, 1978)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America by Susan Faludi (Criticism, 2007)
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Fiction, 1994)
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (General Nonfiction, 1977)
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan (General Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (1977)

New York Times bestseller

• The Letter by Richard Paul Evans (Fiction, 1997)
• The Looking Glass by Richard Paul Evans (Fiction, 1999)
• The Last Promise by Richard Paul Evans (Fiction, 2002)
• A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans (Fiction, 2003)
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (General, 1977)
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong (Nonfiction, 1994)
• My American Journey by Colin Powell (Nonfiction, 1995)
• My Life by Bill Clinton (Nonfiction, 2004)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality by Jerome R. Corsi (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Nonfiction, 2009)

Pulitzer Prize

• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (General Nonfiction, 2009)

Pura Belpré Award

• The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Pura Belpre Medal Book Author (Awards)) by Margarita Engle (Narrative, 2008)