Awards in your library

Summary: 49 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Justine, eller Dydens ulykker by marquis de Sade (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rapporter by Michael Herr (2006/2008 Edition)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing (2008 edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Social Sciences, 2004)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2006)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Betty Trask Award

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2001)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2005)

Business Week Top Ten Books of the Year

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Best First Book, 2001)

Crossword Prize

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (non-fiction, 2005)

Crossword Prize shortlist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)

Deutscher Krimi Preis

• The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing (2005)

Deutscher Science Fiction Preis

• The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing (Roman, 2005)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman (2005)
• China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge (2006)

forbes.com Top Ten Books of the Year

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Goldene Feder

• The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing (2005)

Guardian 1000

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (State of the nation)

Guardian First Book Award

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)

Hugo Nominee

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (Novel, 2006)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Fiction, 2000)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2006)
• Infoquake: The Jump 225 Trilogy: v. 1 (Jump 225 Trilogy) by David Louis Edelman (2007)

Kiriyama Prize

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Nonfiction, 2005)

Kurd Laßwitz Preis

• The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing (Bester Roman, 2005)

Locus

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (SF Novel, 2006)

Locus Award

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (Best Science Fiction Novel, 2006)

Locus Recommended Reading

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (Science Fiction Novel, 2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Science and Technology, 1996)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Rapporter by Michael Herr (General Nonfiction, 1977)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Rapporter by Michael Herr (1977)

New York Times bestseller

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Fiction, 2000)
• Salvador by Joan Didion (General, 1983)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Nonfiction, 1996)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)

Orange Prize Shortlist

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)

Prometheus Award nominee

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (Novel, 2006)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (General Non-Fiction, 2005)

Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris

• Berlinerpoplene by Anne B Ragde (2004)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (General, 2004)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond (General, 2006)

Salon Book Award

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Fiction, 2000)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)

SF Site Editor's Choice

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2005)

SF Site Reader's Choice

• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2005)

Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2001)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Faster: Our Race Against Time by James Gleick (Non-fiction (3), 1999)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Fiction (5), 2000)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Vanguardia Prize

• The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor

Warwick Prize for Writing

• The Meaning of the 21st Century: A VItal Blueprint of Ensuring Our Future by James Martin (2009, longlist)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1997, No 91)

Whitbread

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (First Novel, 2000)

Whitcoulls top 100

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2008, #77)