Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (2006/2008/2010 Edition)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The sagas of Icelanders : a selection by Jane Smiley (History, 2004)

Alan Paton Award

• The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Albert B. Corey Prize

• Canada & the American Revolution, 1774-1783 by Gustave Lanctôt (1967)
• The people of Hamilton, Canada West : family and class in a mid-nineteenth-century city by Michael B. Katz (1978)
• The invasion within : the contest of cultures in Colonial North America by James Axtell (1986)
• The lion, the eagle, and Upper Canada : a developing colonial ideology by Jane Errington (1988)
• The siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776 : an episode in the American Revolution by Ernest Clarke (1996)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• The destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg (1968)
• The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman (1985)

Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books

• We were not the savages : a Micmac perspective on the collision of European and aboriginal civilizations by Daniel N. Paul (No 55)

Bancroft Prize

• The other Bostonians; poverty and progress in the American metropolis, 1880-1970 by Stephan Thernstrom (1974)
• Cradle of the middle class : the family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 by Mary P. Ryan (1982)

CAA Award

• Historical atlas of Canada : Canada's history illustrated with original maps by Derek Hayes (Canadian History, 2003)

Carey-Thomas Award

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (Outstanding Publishing Achievement)

Cornelius Ryan Award

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (1960)

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

• The fur trade in Canada; an introduction to Canadian economic history by Harold Adams Innis
• The making of the English working class by E. P. Thompson

Cox Book Prize

• Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1989)

Dartmouth Book Awards

• The Acadians of Nova Scotia : Past and Present by Sally Ross (1993)
• Burden of desire by Robert MacNeil (1993)
• J.B. McLachlan a biography by David Frank (2000)
• In the wake of the Alderney : Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1750-2000 by Harry Chapman (2001)
• Historic North End Halifax by Paul A. Erickson (2005)

Dartmouth Medal

• Atlas of early American history : the Revolutionary era, 1760-1790 by Lester Jesse Cappon (1977)

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award

• The invasion within : the contest of cultures in Colonial North America by James Axtell (1986)

The Essential Man's Library: 50 Non-Fiction Adventure Books

• The Vinland sagas : the Norse discovery of America : Graenlendinga saga and Eirik's saga

Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction

• The Acadians of Nova Scotia : Past and Present by Sally Ross (1993)
• Landmarks : historic buildings of Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Pacey (1995)
• An illustrated history of Nova Scotia by Harry Bruce (1998)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (037)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England by William Cronon (1984)

François-Xavier Garneau Medal

• Habitants and merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal by Louise Dechêne (1980)
• Peasant, lord, and merchant : rural society in three Quebec parishes, 1740-1840 by Allan Greer (Honourable Mention, 1990)
• Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal by Bettina Bradbury (Honourable Mention, 2000)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Atlas of early American history : the Revolutionary era, 1760-1790 by Lester Jesse Cappon (1976)
• Ratification : the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier (co-winner, 2011)

George Washington Book Prize

• Ratification : the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier (2011)

Gilbert Chinard Prize

• The invasion within : the contest of cultures in Colonial North America by James Axtell (1985)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Colony to nation; a history of Canada by Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower (Non-fiction, 1946)
• The writing of Canadian history : aspects of English-Canadian historical writing since 1900 by Carl Berger (Non-fiction, 1976)
• Louisbourg portraits : life in an eighteenth-century garrison town by Christopher Moore (Non-fiction, 1982)

Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction

• The making of the English working class by E. P. Thompson (History)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Harold Adams Innis Prize

• Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal by Bettina Bradbury (1994)

Hillman Prize

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (Book, 1960)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Palatines, liberty, and property : German Lutherans in colonial British America by A. G. Roeber (1993)

John Lyman Book Award

• The many landfalls of John Cabot by Peter Edward Pope (Canadian Naval and Maritime History, 1997)

Lambda Literary Award

• Eleanor Roosevelt : volume two, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Lesbian Nonfiction, 1992)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Eleanor Roosevelt : volume two, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Lesbian Biography/Autobiography, 1999)

Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society

• Ratification : the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier (2011)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• George, Nicholas and Wilhelm : three royal cousins and the road to World War I by Miranda Carter (Biography, 2010)

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

• The making of the English working class by E. P. Thompson (30)
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (58)

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

• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (36)

National Book Award

• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (Nonfiction, 1961)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Breaking the spell : religion as a natural phenomenon by Daniel Clement Dennett (Criticism, 2006)
• The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman (General Nonfiction, 1984)
• Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (General Nonfiction, 1986)
• Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (General Nonfiction, 1996)

National Jewish Book Award

• None is too many : Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 by Irving M. Abella (Holocaust, 1983)
• The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman (Holocaust, 1985)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman (1985)

New York Times bestseller

• Cake wrecks : when professional cakes go hilariously wrong by Jen Yates (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2009)
• Go the fuck to sleep by Adam Mansbach (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2011)
• Politically correct bedtime stories by James Finn Garner (Fiction, 1994)
• Once upon a more enlightened time : more politically correct bedtime stories by James Finn Garner (Fiction, 1995)
• Politically correct holiday stories : for an enlightened yuletide season by James Finn Garner (Fiction, 1995)
• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (General, 1960)
• Majesty : Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor by Robert Lacey (General, 1977)
• The Windsor story by J. Bryan (General, 1980)
• The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman (Nonfiction, 1985)
• Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler (Nonfiction, 1985)
• The National Geographic Society : 100 years of adventure and discovery by C. D. B. Bryan (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Nonfiction, 1996)
• My story by Duchess of York, Sarah Mountbatten-Windsor (Nonfiction, 1996)
• Eleanor Roosevelt : volume two, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother : the official biography by William Shawcross (Nonfiction, 2009)
• Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch by Sally Bedell Smith (Nonfiction, 2012)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Ratification : the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier (Nonfiction, 2010)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Njal's saga by Magnus. Magnusson

Philip Ward's Lifetime Reading Plan

• Njal's saga by Magnus. Magnusson (Year 33)

Psi Phi Award

• Star Trek star charts by Geoffrey T. Mandel (Best Nonfiction, 2002)

Psi Phi Hall of Fame

• Star trek chronology : the history of the future by Michael Okuda (Nonfiction Inductee, 2001)
• Star Trek star charts by Geoffrey T. Mandel (Nonfiction Inductee, 2003)

Publishers Weekly Bestseller

• My story by Duchess of York, Sarah Mountbatten-Windsor (Nonfiction, 1996)

Pulitzer Prize

• Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (History, 1987)

Sir John A. MacDonald Prize

• None is too many : Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 by Irving M. Abella (1983)
• Peasant, lord, and merchant : rural society in three Quebec parishes, 1740-1840 by Allan Greer (1986)
• Historical atlas of Canada : volume I, from the beginning to 1800 by R. Cole Harris (1988)
• Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal by Bettina Bradbury (1994)

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