Awards in your library

Summary: 42 Awards.

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

• The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (400 AD)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Faces in the water by Janet Frame (2006/2008 Edition)
• The immoralist by Andre Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
• The last temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 5↑)

Adam Award

• In a fishbone church by Catherine Chidgey (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller (Drama, 1999)
• Civilisation: a personal view by Kenneth Clark (Non-fiction, 1999)

ALS Gold Medal

• The burnt ones by Patrick White (1965)

Betty Trask Award

• In a fishbone church by Catherine Chidgey (1999)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Greek myths by Robert Graves

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The love of learning and the desire for God : a study of monastic culture by Jean Leclercq (History and Culture)
• Apologia pro vita sua. (Fourth impression.) by John Henry Newman (Holy Men and Women)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)
• The problem of pain by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• The City of God by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)
• Introduction dar Vuez Devot by Francis de Sales (Spiritual Reading)
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis (Spiritual Reading)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• In a fishbone church by Catherine Chidgey (Best First Book, 1999)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlist

• The scornful moon : a moralist's tale by Maurice Gee (2004)

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

• Seven types of ambiguity by William Empson
• Religion and the decline of magic studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by Keith Thomas

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• The immoralist by Andre Gide

Guardian 1000

• The immoralist by Andre Gide (Family and self)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The love of learning and the desire for God : a study of monastic culture by Jean Leclercq

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The fat man by Maurice Gee (1998)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Plumb by Maurice Gee (Fiction, 1978)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• The romantic agony. [A study of the morbid tendencies of romantic literature, 1800-1900] by Mario Praz (1977)

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

• Aspects of the novel by E. M. Forster (14)

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

• The white goddess : a historical grammar of poetic myth by Robert Graves (59)

Montana Book Award

• Bulibasha : king of the gypsies by Witi Tame Ihimaera (1995)

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Shortlist

• Ellie and the shadow man by Maurice Gee (2002)

Montana NZ Book Awards

• In a fishbone church by Catherine Chidgey (First Book of Fiction, 1998)
• My real life and other stories by Julian Novitz (First Book of Fiction, 2005)
• The dictionary of New Zealand English : a dictionary of New Zealandisms on historical principles by H. W. Orsman (History & Biography Winner and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 1998)
• My sunshine by Bill Manhire (Poetry, 1996)
• Seeing You Asked by Vincent O'Sullivan (Poetry, 1999)
• Nice morning for it, Adam by Vincent O'Sullivan (Poetry, 2005)

Montana NZ Book Awards Runner-up

• The scornful moon : a moralist's tale by Maurice Gee (Fiction, 2004)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award

• From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers by Marina Warner (General Myth and Fantasy Studies, 1996)

National Book Award

• The Uses of Enchantment: Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim (Contemporary Thought, 1977)

National Book Award finalist

• The life of the drama by Eric Bentley (Arts and Letters, 1965)
• Beyond Culture by Lionel Trilling (Arts and Letters, 1966)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Uses of Enchantment: Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim (Criticism, 1976)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller (American Play, 1948-1949)
• Travesties by Tom Stoppard (Play, 1975-1976)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Uses of Enchantment: Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim (1976)
• Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (1980)

New York Times bestseller

• The last temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (Fiction, 1960)
• Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller (General, 1949)
• Civilisation: a personal view by Kenneth Clark (General, 1969)
• Cultural literacy : what every American needs to know by E. D. Hirsch (Nonfiction, 1987)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Sir Gawain and the green knight by Ronald Alan Waldron (Simon Armitage translation) (Fiction & Poetry, 2008)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (2009, No. 11)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2009, No. 32)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Orange Prize Longlist

• In a fishbone church by Catherine Chidgey (1999)

Pulitzer Prize

• Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller (Drama, 1949)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Le morte Darthur : the Winchester manuscript by Thomas Malory, Sir (2008)
• The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (2008)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2008)

Tony Award

• Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller (Play, 1949)
• Travesties by Tom Stoppard (Play, 1976)

Tony Award Nominee

• Translations by Brian Friel (Revival of a Play, 2007)

Wattie Book of the Year Award

• The matriarch by Witi Tame Ihimaera (1986)

Wolfson History Prize

• Religion and the decline of magic studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by Keith Thomas (1972)

Århundrets bibliotek

• Mother Courage and her children;: A chronicle of the Thirty Years War (Methuen's modern plays) by Bertolt Brecht
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre