Awards in your library

Summary: 19 Awards.

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

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (3rd century BCE)
• The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (1988)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace (1997)

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

• Religion and the decline of magic by Keith Thomas

Guardian 1000

• Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace (Family and self)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Cost of Discipleship (A powerful attack on "easy Christianity" by a brilliant teacher and thinker.) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• d'Aulaires' Trolls by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (1973)
• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (1989)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace (Shortlist, 1999)

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

• The White Goddess; a historical grammar of poetic myth by Robert Graves (59)

National Book Award

• The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (Science (Paperback), 1981)

National Book Award finalist

• The Forgotten Language (An Evergreen Book) by Erich Fromm (Nonfiction, 1952)

New York Times bestseller

• Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld (General, 1964)
• The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (General, 1979)

Newbery Honor

• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (1989)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (2009, No. 86)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (General Non-Fiction, 1980)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (2008)

Whitbread

• Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace (Novel, 1997)

Wolfson History Prize

• Religion and the decline of magic by Keith Thomas (1972)

Århundrets bibliotek

• The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud
• A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud