Awards in your library

Summary: 19 Awards.

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

• The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) by Aristotle (4th century BCE)
• The Greek New Testament (ca. 50–100 AD)
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• Three Treatises by Martin Luther (1520)
• The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
• Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set) by John Calvin (1536)
• Pensees (Penguin Classics) by Blaise Pascal (1670)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox by G.K. Chesterton
• The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism by Louis Bouyer (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees by Blaise Pascal (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc (History and Culture)
• How the Reformation Happened by Hilaire Belloc (History and Culture)
• Apologia pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics) by John Newman (Holy Men and Women)
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
• The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, 1874-1936 (Spiritual Classics)
• The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton (Spiritual Classics)
• Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen (Spiritual Reading)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham (Biblical Studies, 2007)
• Encountering the New Testament,: A Historical and Theological Survey (Encountering Biblical Studies) by Walter A. Elwell (No. 12, 1999, tie)
• The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels by Luke Timothy Johnson (No. 22, 1996, tie)

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

• The Expositor's Bible Commentary: Hebrews through Revelation (Volume 12) (Commentaries, 1983)
• The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel (Missions/Evangelism, 1999)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• Sophocles: Antigone (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Sophocles (Tragedy, 441 BCE)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, 1874-1936

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

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (72)

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

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (56)

National Book Award

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (Religion/Inspiration (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (Criticism, 1979)

New York Times bestseller

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Fiction, 2003)
• Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI (Nonfiction, 2007)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (2009)
• The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (2009, No. 11)
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (2009, No. 26)
• The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (2009, No. 31)
• Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton (2009, No. 47)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (2008)
• The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (2008)
• Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton (2008)
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (2008)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2007, No 5)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (7)