Awards in your library

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100 Essential New England Books

• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (Boston Globe)

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

• The Iliad of Homer; (Classics club library) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Kidnapped (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006 Edition)
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (2006 Edition)
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1775-1817 (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (2008 Edition)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

• The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor E. Challenger... (Puffin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle (10)

1952 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (17)

1956 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (34)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1775-1817 (1998, 12)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2004, 87)

Agatha Award Nominee

• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: A Novel by Laurie R. King (Novel, 1994)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan (1966)
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven (1974)
• The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (1982)
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1992)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: A Novel by Laurie R. King (1995)
• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (1997)
• The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (1998)
• The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) (v. 3) by Philip Pullman (2002)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: A Novel by Laurie R. King (Fiction, 1999)
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen William Hawking (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (History, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ( Books for the Soul, 1997)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: A Novel by Laurie R. King (Adult Mysteries for Teens, 1998)
• The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (Changing Dimensions, 1999)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1775-1817 ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (Flights of Fantasy: Beyond Harry and Frodo, 2003)

Alan Paton Award

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Alex Award

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1999)

Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize

• The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force by Douglas Porch (1992)

Allied Irish Bank Fiction Prize

• Kepler: A novel by John Banville

Ambassador Book Award

• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography/Autobiography, 1995)
• In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike (Fiction, 1997)
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography, 1998)

American Library Association Notable Book

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1993)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Bancroft Prize

• The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood (1970)
• The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 by Morton J. Horwitz (1978)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nation Series) by Eric Foner (1989)

Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)

BBC's Big Read

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1775-1817 (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (Best loved novel, 2003, No 18)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 36)
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 58)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Best loved novel, 2003, No 128)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (Best loved novel, 2003, No 149)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (1996)
• The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (1997)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (American Presidency Series) by Phillip Shaw Paludan (1995)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2005)

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

• The Iliad of Homer; (Classics club library) by Homer

Best Books 2006 Awards Finalist (Lombardo, Unabridged Audio) Parmenides Publishing

• The Odyssey by Homer

BILBY

• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (secondary, 1996)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Books, 2007)

Booker Prize Longlist

• The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) (v. 3) by Philip Pullman (2001)

British Book Award

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (Children's Book of the Year, 1997)
• The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) (v. 3) by Philip Pullman (Children's Book of the Year, 2001)

Carnegie Medal

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (1995)

Carnegie of Carnegies

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (2007)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

CBA Libris Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2003)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2004)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky (Contemporary Issues, No. 3, 1993, Critics' Choice)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• American Colonies (Penguin History of the United States) by Alan Taylor (Nonfiction, Gold, 2001)

Compton Crook Award Nominee

• Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) by Jim Butcher (2001)

CWA

• Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (Gold Dagger, 1997)
• Hostage: A Novel by Robert Crais (Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, shortlist, 2002)

CWA Gold Dagger

• Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (1997)

Duff Cooper Prize

• A History of Warfare by John Keegan (1993)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2001)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (Novel, 1998)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr (Negotiating & Managing)
• The Complete Art Of War: Sun Tzu/sun Pin (History and Warfare) by Sun-tzu (Strategy)
• Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (Strategy)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (1966)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nation Series) by Eric Foner (1989)
• Truman by David McCullough (1993)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands (honorable mention, 2001)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (honorable mention, 2005)

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