Awards in your library

Summary: 24 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong (2001)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong ( What Ails you?, 2006)

Ambassador Book Award

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (American Studies, 2005)

BBC's Big Read

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Best loved novel, 2003, No 94)

Colorado Book Award

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

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

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean (Ethics)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (2005)

IPPY Bronze

• Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel C. Esty (Environment/Ecology/Nature, 2007)

Lectrices de Elle

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Roman, 1995)

LOST Book Club

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 1)
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 2)

National Book Award finalist

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1958)
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (Nonfiction, 2004)
• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times bestseller

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1943)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1957)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (Nonfiction, 2004)
• 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)

Prometheus Award

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Hall of Fame, 1983)

Pulitzer Prize

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (History, 2005)

Quill Award

• 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough (History/Current Events/Politics, 2005)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (43)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (92)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (General, 2006)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (55)

William Hill Sports Book of the Year

• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong (2000)