Awards in your library

Summary: 33 Awards.

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

• Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore (Phoenix ed.) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
• Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. von Hayek (1943)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008 Edition)
• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• What to listen for in music by Aaron Copland (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)
• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan (Social Sciences, 2004)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2007) Stanley Lombardo translation

• Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore (Phoenix ed.) by Homer

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)
• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2007)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton (Spiritual Classics)
• Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton (Spiritual Classics)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
• The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

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

• Prejudices : a selection by H. L. Mencken

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Wall Street)

Guardian 1000

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (State of the nation)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (State of the nation)
• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (18)

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

• Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt (8)
• Free to choose : a personal statement by Milton Friedman (14)
• The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. von Hayek (16)
• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell (71)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (The Board's List, 19)

National Book Award

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1953)
• Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick (Philosophy and Religion, 1975)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (1978)
• Genome by Matt Ridley (2000)

New York Times bestseller

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1952)
• The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. von Hayek (General, 1943)
• Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt (General, 1946)
• Mencken Chrestomathy (Vintage) by H.L. Mencken (General, 1949)
• Minority report : H.L. Mencken's notebooks by H. L. Mencken (General, 1956)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Nonfiction, 2006)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2009, No. 6)
• Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore (Phoenix ed.) by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (2009, No. 32)
• Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes (2009, No. 33)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore (Phoenix ed.) by Homer
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2003)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (2007)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Novel, 2000)

Prix Renaudot

• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (2004)

Pulitzer Prize

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Fiction, 1998)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (24)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

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

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley (General, 1994)
• The Origins of Virtue : Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley (General, 1997)
• Genome by Matt Ridley (General, 2000)
• The Agile Gene : How Nature Turns on Nurture by Matt Ridley (General, 2004)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Genome by Matt Ridley (2000)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (2008)
• Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore (Phoenix ed.) by Homer (2008)
• Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Fiction (4), 1997)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison