Awards in your library

Summary: 85 Awards. Page: [1] 2

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

• Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener (1948)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Oblomov (Everyman's Library; No. 878) by Ivan Alexandrovitch Goncharov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics) by Ernst Junger (2008/2010 Edition)

50 Plus One Great Books You Should Have Read

• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

501 Must-Read Books

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Science Fiction)

61 Essential Postmodern Reads

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (49)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (2008)
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (2008)
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt (2009)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Non-fiction, 1999)

Amazon.com Best Books

• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs (2004)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (2004)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2005)

And/Or Book Award

• BEING DIGITAL by NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE (Moving Image, 1995)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Neverness by David Zindell (1990)

Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (placed 23, 1952)

Audie Winner

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Business Information/Educational,2006)

Axiom Business Book Award

• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam (Communication Skills/Networking, Gold, 2009)

Bloomsbury's 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)

British Book Award

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (Book of the Year, 1997)

Classics of Science Fiction

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (57)

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

• The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud

Daniel S. Burt's Novel 100

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (28)
• Oblomov (Everyman's Library; No. 878) by Ivan Alexandrovitch Goncharov (82)

Eisner Award

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Best Comics-Related Book, 1994)

The Essential Man's Library: 100 Must-Read Books

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award

• Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David A. Mindell (2008)

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award Shortlist

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (2005)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins (The Corporation)
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini (Power)

GetAbstract International Book Award

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim (2005)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)

Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction

• The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan (Politics)

Guardian 1000

• Oblomov (Everyman's Library; No. 878) by Ivan Alexandrovitch Goncharov (Comedy)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1. Ausgabe)

Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Harvey Award

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Graphic Album of Original Work, 1994)

Hugo Nominee

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Non-Fiction, 1994)

IPPY

• Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel (Business/Career, 2001)
• Notes on Directing by Frank Hauser (Performing Arts, 2004)
• The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans by G. J. Sawyer (Science, 2008)

IPPY Finalist

• Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman (Computer/Internet, 2003)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

John Burroughs Medal

• SONG OF THE DODO: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen (1997)

Jolt Award

• Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell (1996)

Jolt Awards

• Software For Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design by Larry L. Constantine (1999)
• Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn (2006)

La Cultura del Mare

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (3)

Le Prix Faubert du Coton, France

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Library of Congress Books that Shaped America

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science & Technology, 2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally (Science & Technology, 2007)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (21)
• The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates (65)

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

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (26)
• The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates (29)
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (75)

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

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1)
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (2)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (21)

The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (1970s)
• The Human Factor (Everyman's Library) by Graham Greene (1970s)

National Book Award

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1974)
• The Soul of a New Machine (Modern Library) by Tracy Kidder (General Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1982)

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