Awards in your library

Summary: 41 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman (Biography, 1999)
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen J. Hawking (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

American Book Award

• Blowback by Chalmers Johnson (2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (Great Minds Series) by Thorstein Veblen

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

British Fantasy Award Nominee

• The Granta Book of the American Long Story (Anthology, 1999)

Carl Sandburg Award

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro, Robert a. , Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) by Robert A. Caro (2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The idea of a university by John Henry Newman (Literary Classics)

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

• The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Journals of Lewis and Clark (American Heritage Library) by Meriwether Lewis (002)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy by Howard Zinn (Politics, 1998)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Globalization)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (2002)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Brooks Adams

Heartland Prize

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Non-Fiction, 2001)

James Fenimore Cooper Prize

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2005)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2005)

Lionel Trilling Book Award

• The ELegant Universe by Brian Greene (2000)

Locus Recommended Reading

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Science Fiction Novel, 2004)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro, Robert a. , Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 2002)
• Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: Wheels of Commerce v. 2 (Civilization & Capitalism 1400-1800) by Fernand Braudel (History, 1983)

Michigan Notable Books

• Booking Passage by Thomas Lynch (2006)

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

• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) by R.H. Tawney (66)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Finalist, 2005)

National Book Award

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro, Robert a. , Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) by Robert A. Caro (Nonfiction, 2002)

National Book Award finalist

• Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal (Fiction, 1974)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro, Robert a. , Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) by Robert A. Caro (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Fiction, 2004)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (2001)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2004)

New York Times bestseller

• Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal (Fiction, 1973)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Fiction, 2003)
• The power elite by C. Wright Mills (General, 1956)
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The Downing Street years by Margaret Thatcher (Nonfiction, 1993)
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris (Nonfiction, 1999)
• The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon by Anthony Summers (Nonfiction, 2000)
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen J. Hawking (Nonfiction, 2001)
• The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Multiple Votes)

Pulitzer Prize

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro, Robert a. , Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) by Robert A. Caro (Biography or Autobiography, 2003)
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (History, 2002)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The ELegant Universe by Brian Greene (General Non-Fiction, 2000)
• The Blank Slate (Allen Lane Science) by Steven Pinker (General Non-Fiction, 2003)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Ralph J. Bunche Award

• Multicultural Citizenship: Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford Political Theory) by Will Kymlicka (1996)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• The ELegant Universe by Brian Greene (General, 2000)
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen J. Hawking (General, 2002)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen J. Hawking (2002)
• The Blank Slate (Allen Lane Science) by Steven Pinker (General, 2003)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes (1999)

Sidewise Award

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Long Form, 2004)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2007, No 5)

WH Smith Literary Award

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2005)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (7)
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (97)