Awards in your library

Summary: 26 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (3)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (3)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1969)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1970)
• The world of soul; Black America's contribution to the pop music scene by Arnold Shaw (1970)
• Gather Together in My Name (Virago Paperback Original) by Maya Angelou (1974)
• Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Chr by Maya Angelou (1976)
• Brown Sugar (A Da Capo Paperback) by Donald Bogle (1980)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Biography, 1999)
• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Biography, 1999)
• The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (Non-fiction, 1999)

American Book Award

• Lost Highway : Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicans by Peter Guralnick (1983)
• I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues by Jeff Hannusch (1986)
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis (1998)

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

• The country blues by Samuel Barclay Charters
• The Gospel Sound - Good news and bad times by Anthony Heilbut
• Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues by Paul Oliver
• Deep Blues: A Musical And Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
• Blues People - Negro music in white America by LeRoi Jones
• The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

Francis Parkman Prize

• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (1998)

Herbert Feis Award

• Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music by Benjamin Filene (2001)

IPPY

• Josh White: Society Blues by Elijah Wald (Performing Arts, 2001)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael Gray (Biography, 2007)

Lillian Smith Award

• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (1997)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Promised Land: Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (History, 1991)

Michigan Notable Books

• Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America by Nick Salvatore (2006)

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

• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Penguin Classics) by Booker T. Washington (3)
• The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (31)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax (General Nonfiction, 1993)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George (Criticism, 1988)

New York Times bestseller

• His Eye is on the Sparrow. An autobiography by Ethel Waters, with Charles Samuels. [With portraits.] by Ethel WATERS (General, 1951)
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday (General, 1956)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (General, 1970)
• Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Aretha From These Roots by Aretha Franklin (Nonfiction, 1999)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (2009, No. 44)

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• The Promised Land: Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (1991)

OAH Merle Curti Award

• Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson (2007)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

• Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky (1997)
• The Promised Land: Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (Honorable Mention, 1992)

Salon Book Award

• Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick (2005)

Southern Book Critics Circle Award

• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (1997)

Wesley-Logan Prize

• Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo (1996)