Awards in your library

Summary: 37 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics) by Guy de Maupassant (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)

Agatha Award Nominee

• Shocking Murder, Suspense with a Courtroom Drama and a Detective Extraordinaire. (Real Life Whodunit) by Kate Summerscale (Non-Fiction, 2008)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie ( Guess Again: Mystery and Suspense!, 2004)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (#46)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)

Bancarella

• The Past Is A Foreign Country by Giovanni Carofiglio (2005)

Barry Award Nominee

• A Simple Act of Violence by R.J. Ellory (British Crime Novel, 2009)

Barry Award nominee

• 'Tis a cruelty To load a falling man. - Shakespeare - Henry VIII (Shardlake) by C.J. Sansom (British Crime Novel, 2007)

Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (1943)

Bokhandlerprisen

• The Redbreast: A Novel by Jo Nesbo (2000)
• Nemesis: A Novel (Harry Hole) by Jo Nesbo (2007)

CWA

• The Redbreast: A Novel by Jo Nesbo (Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, Shortlist, 2007)
• The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) by Andrea Camilleri (Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, Shortlist, 2008)
• Dissolution by C. J. Sansom (Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist, 2003)
• 'Tis a cruelty To load a falling man. - Shakespeare - Henry VIII (Shardlake) by C.J. Sansom (Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist, 2006)
• Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom (Ellis Peters Historical Award, 2005)
• The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett (Gold/Silver Dagger Shortlist, 2006)

Den norske leserprisen

• Nemesis: A Novel (Harry Hole) by Jo Nesbo (2007)

Edgar Award

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Novel, 1955)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Shocking Murder, Suspense with a Courtroom Drama and a Detective Extraordinaire. (Real Life Whodunit) by Kate Summerscale (Fact Crime, 2009)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin (2009, shortlist)
• And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. - Book of Revelation. (Shardlake) by C.J. Sansom (2009, shortlist)

Galaxy British Book Awards

• Shocking Murder, Suspense with a Courtroom Drama and a Detective Extraordinaire. (Real Life Whodunit) by Kate Summerscale (Book of the Year, 2009)

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

• The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (International Prize, 2008)

Guardian 1000

• A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory (Crime)
• Dissolution by C. J. Sansom (Crime)
• Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin (Crime)
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Crime)
• The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot (Love)
• Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics) by Guy de Maupassant (State of the nation)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

• Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie (2009)
• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (2009)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (49)

Martin Beck Award

• Instance of the Fingerpost [Paperback] by Pears by Iain Pears (1999)

New York Times bestseller

• Instance of the Fingerpost [Paperback] by Pears by Iain Pears (Fiction, 1998)
• A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell (Fiction, 2005)
• The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P.D. James (Fiction, 2008)
• The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Fiction, 2009)

Orange Prize Longlist

• Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (2005)

Publishers Weekly's Best Books: 2009

• The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Fiction)
• Nemesis: A Novel (Harry Hole) by Jo Nesbo (Fiction)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell (2005)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald, 1896-1940 (96)

Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

• Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (31)
• Medusa: A Novel by Michael Dibdin (60)

Salon Book Award

• Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (2004)
• Shocking Murder, Suspense with a Courtroom Drama and a Detective Extraordinaire. (Real Life Whodunit) by Kate Summerscale (2008)

Saltire Society

• Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (Scottish Book of the Year, 2005)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction

• Shocking Murder, Suspense with a Courtroom Drama and a Detective Extraordinaire. (Real Life Whodunit) by Kate Summerscale (2008)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise (2005)
• Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I & His Art Collection by Jerry Brotton (2006)

Tidenes beste norske krimroman, kåring i Nitimen

• The Redbreast: A Novel by Jo Nesbo (2004)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Shocking Murder, Suspense with a Courtroom Drama and a Detective Extraordinaire. (Real Life Whodunit) by Kate Summerscale (Non-fiction (5), 2008)

Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (15)
• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (47)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (13)
• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (59)

Whitbread Shortlist

• Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (Novel, 2004)

Årets bästa deckare 1996

• Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries) by Hakan Nesser