Awards in your library

Summary: 37 Awards.

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

• Tanakh = [Tanakh] : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text (13th–4th century BCE)
• The guide for the perplexed by Moses Maimonides (1190)
• I and Thou; a new translation with a prologue "I and You" and notes by Martin Buber (1923)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006 Edition)
• The drowned and the saved by Primo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (2006/2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by John Boyne (2009, No 727, Age 8 and over)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• The colonizer and the colonized by Albert. Memmi (scholarship/non-fiction)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family by Miep Gies (1987)
• I never saw another butterfly : children's drawings and poems from Terezín Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 by Hana Volavková (1994)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

Bancarella

• The Bible as history by Werner Keller (1957)

Bancroft Prize

• The might of nations: world politics in our time by John George Stoessinger (1963)

Booker Prize

• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (1982)

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

• Detroit, I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution by Dan Georgakas

Guardian 1000

• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The idea of the holy : an inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the ra by Rudolf Otto
• Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Sabbath: its meaning for modern man by Abraham Joshua Heschel
• God in search of man; a philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
• The religions of man by Huston Smith
• The star of redemption by Franz Rosenzweig
• I and Thou; a new translation with a prologue "I and You" and notes by Martin Buber

International IMPAC Dublin

• The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by John Boyne (Longlist, 2008)

IPPY

• Front of the class : how Tourette syndrome made me the teacher I never had by Brad Cohen (Education/Academic/Teaching, 2006)

Irish Book Award

• The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by John Boyne (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by John Boyne (Novel, 2007)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Twice blessed : on being lesbian, gay, and Jewish by Christie Balka (Gay Men's Anthologies, 1989)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (Fiction, 1983)

National Book Award

• A day of pleasure; stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Children's Books, 1970)
• The rise and fall of the Third Reich; a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer (Nonfiction, 1961)
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction, 1989)

National Book Award finalist

• In my father's court. by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Arts and Letters, 1967)
• Bernard Berenson : the making of a connoisseur by Ernest Samuels (Biography (Hardcover), 1980)
• The uprooted; the epic story of the great migrations that made the American people by Oscar Handlin (Nonfiction, 1952)
• Only in America by Harry Golden (Nonfiction, 1959)
• The Rothschilds : a family portrait by Frederic Morton (Nonfiction, 1963)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Patrimony : a true story by Philip. Roth (Biography/Autobiography, 1991)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• New York Jew by Alfred Kazin (General Nonfiction, 1978)

National Jewish Book Award

• Maimonides : Torah and philosophic quest by David Hartman
• A people divided : Judaism in contemporary America by Jack Wertheimer (Contemporary Jewish Life, 1994)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (1982)
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (1989)
• Balkan ghosts : a journey through history by Robert D. Kaplan (1993)

New York Times bestseller

• A guide for the bedevilled by Ben Hecht (General, 1944)
• A nation of nations by Louis Adamic (General, 1945)
• Peace of mind by Joshua Loth Liebman (General, 1946)
• Brandeis, a free man's life by Alpheus Thomas Mason (General, 1946)
• Baruch by Bernard M. Baruch (General, 1957)
• Only in America by Harry Golden (General, 1958)
• This is my God by Herman Wouk (General, 1959)
• The conscience of a conservative by Barry M. Goldwater (General, 1960)
• Enjoy, enjoy! by Harry Golden (General, 1960)
• The Rothschilds : a family portrait by Frederic Morton (General, 1962)
• You're entitle' by Harry Golden (General, 1962)
• Treblinka by Jean François Steiner (General, 1967)
• My people: the story of the Jews by Abba Solomon Eban (General, 1969)
• O Jerusalem by Larry Collins (General, 1972)
• Souls on fire; portraits and legends of Hasidic masters by Elie Wiesel (General, 1972)
• My life by Golda Meir (General, 1975)
• Wanderings : Chaim Potok's history of the Jews by Chaim Potok (General, 1979)
• When bad things happen to good people by Harold S. Kushner (General, 1982)
• When all you've ever wanted isn't enough by Harold S. Kushner (Nonfiction, 1986)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Nonfiction, 2006)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Night by Elie Wiesel (2009, No. 76)

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (1990)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• Night by Elie Wiesel (2006)

Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice

• The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by John Boyne (2009)

Pulitzer Prize

• The uprooted; the epic story of the great migrations that made the American people by Oscar Handlin (History, 1952)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Bernard Berenson : the making of a connoisseur by Ernest Samuels (Biography or Autobiography, 1980)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally (41)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

• Freedom in the ancient world by Herbert Joseph Muller (1962)

SWR-Bestenliste

• Patrimony : a true story by Philip. Roth (1992)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity by Primo Levi (2008)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity by Primo Levi (1997, No 30)