Awards in your library

Summary: 46 Awards.

Degenerate Art by Stephanie Barron (Best Catalogue, 1991)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

Li'l Sis & Uncle Willie: A Story Based on the Life and Paintings of William H. Johnson by Gwen Everett (1992)

Benjamin Franklin Award

The Story of Painting: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art by Wendy Beckett (Arts (Art/Music/Photography), 2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)

Borders Original Voices

Close range : Wyoming stories by Annie Proulx (2000)

Christopher Award

The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle by Gay Matthaei (Books for Young People, 1995)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History by Thomas Albright (California, Gold, 1985)
Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones (Californiana, Gold, 1990)
Johnson~ The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland (Centennial Books) by Stephen Johnson (Californiana, Silver, 1993)
The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder (Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2002)

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

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Edgar Award

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (Fact Crime, 2004)

Eisner Award

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Best Comics-Related Book, 1994)
Crumb~ The Coffee Table Art Book by R. Crumb (Best Comics-Related Book, 1998)
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Best Graphic Album: Reprint, 2001)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition) by Jon Krakauer (009)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Graphic Novel, 2001)
Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement by Bryan Raymond Turcotte (Music, 2000)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

Photograph Collector's Guide by Lee D. Witkin (1983)
Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 by Guy C. McElroy (1991)
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)
Degenerate Art by Stephanie Barron (1992)
Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was : Selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection by Paul Johnson (1992)
A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman (1995)
Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection (copy 2) by Donald L. Fennimore (1997)
IKAT: Silks of Central Asia by Kate Fitz Gibbon (1998)
Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych by John Oliver Hand (2006)
Steichen~ Steichen's Legacy by Joanna Steichen (Honorable Mention, 2001)
Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization (Honorable Mention, 2002)
The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820 (The Frank L. Horton Series) by Bradford L. Rauschenberg (Honorable Mention, 2004)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (General Nonfiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Family and self)
Candide [Illustrated By Rockwell Kent] by Jean Francois And Arouet De Voltaire And Illustrated By Rockwell Kent Marie (War and travel)

Guardian First Book Award

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (2001)

Harvey Award

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Graphic Album of Original Work, 1994)
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Graphic Album of Previously Published Work, 2001)

Ignatz Award

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Outstanding Story, 2000)

Ignatz Award nominee

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection, 2001)

IPPY

Wolfe~ The Living Wild by Art Wolfe (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2001)
Museum of Flight, 100 Years of Aviation History: From the Wright Brothers to the Moon by Abe Aisling (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2003)
The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2003)
Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame: The Story of the Boy Who Traveled into the Past by Stepping Through the Pictur by Michael S. Class (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2006)

IPPY Finalist

Partridge~ Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge by Rondal Partridge (Photography, 2003)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Nonfiction, 1999)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project by Cindy Ruskin (AIDS, 1988)
Sargent~ John Singer Sargent by John Singer Sargent (Photography/Visual Arts, 1999)

National Book Award finalist

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (Nonfiction, 2003)

National Book Critics Circle Award

Sontag~ On Photography by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 1977)
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler (Criticism, 2006)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition) by Jon Krakauer (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York City Book Award

Terra-Cotta Skyline: New York's Architectural Ornament by Susan Tunick (1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

New York Times bestseller

I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People in the Years of Peace: 1918 to Pearl Harbor by Agnes Rogers (General, 1947)
Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead (General, 1962)
The Home Planet (Nonfiction, 1988)
Rolling Stone: The Photographs (Nonfiction, 1989)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition) by Jon Krakauer (Nonfiction, 1997)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (Nonfiction, 2003)
Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (Paperback Nonfiction, 2001)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

Close range : Wyoming stories by Annie Proulx (Fiction, 2000)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition) by Jon Krakauer (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript by Eloise Quinones Keber (1996)

Salon Book Award

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition) by Jon Krakauer (Nonfiction, 1997)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (2003)

Squiddy Award

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Graphic Novel, 1993)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition) by Jon Krakauer (Non-fiction (1), 1997)

Time's 10 All-Time Graphic Novels

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

Washington State Book Award Finalist

Shoot the Buffalo by Matt Briggs (2006)

Whitbread Shortlist

Matisse~ The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse : The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Henri Matisse (Biography, 1999)

A YALSA Best of the Best Books 1970-1983

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

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