Awards in your library

Summary: 16 Awards.

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore ( Change Your World, 2010)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Gold medal, 2008)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)

Green Prize for Sustainable Literature

• Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen

Lincoln Prize

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2008)

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

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series XVII) by Joseph Campbell (93)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography, 2005)

New York Times bestseller

• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Nonfiction, 2006)
• The Long Tail : Why the Future Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before by Alastair Fothergill (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (2009)

Publisher's Weekly Best Book

• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (Non-Fiction, 2008)

Quill Award

• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore (History/Current Events/Politics, 2006)
• The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (History/Current Events/Politics, 2007)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (General, 2007)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (General, 1999)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins (1997, No 91)