Awards in your library

Summary: 20 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)

Ambassador Book Award

• Close Range (Wyoming Stories 1) by Annie Proulx (Fiction, 2000)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (2004)

Book Sense Book of the Year

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

Borders Original Voices

• Close Range (Wyoming Stories 1) by Annie Proulx (2000)

British Book Award

• Billy by Pamela Stephenson (Book of the Year, 2002)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

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

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Red meat: A collection of Red Meat cartoons by Max Cannon (Special Recognition/Wildcard Categories, 1998)

Guardian 1000

• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Crime)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• The high window by Raymond Chandler (31)

IPPY Bronze

• Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World by Christopher Mark O'Brien (Business/Career/Sales, 2007)

Locus Recommended Reading

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction Novel, 2003)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Close Range (Wyoming Stories 1) by Annie Proulx (1999)

New York Times bestseller

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (Fiction, 2003)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, 2005)
• My life in France by Julia Child (Nonfiction, 2006)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Close Range (Wyoming Stories 1) by Annie Proulx (Fiction, 2000)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

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

SF Site Editor's Choice

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (2003)

SF Site Reader's Choice

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (2003)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (Fiction (3), 2003)