Awards in your library

Summary: 9 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner (Non-fiction, 1999)

And/Or Book Award

• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte (Moving Image, 1995)

Books for a Better Life Award

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (2008)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins (The Corporation)
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)

IPPY Finalist

• The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living by Randy Komisar (Business/Career, 2001)

Jolt Awards

• Code Complete (Microsoft Programming) by Steve McConnell (1993)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (21)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (75)

New York Times bestseller

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2008)
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (General, 1959)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Nonfiction, 2001)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Paperback Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 1990)