Awards in your library

Summary: 24 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
• La Virgen de Los Sicarios by Fernando Vallejo (2008 Edition)
• Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics) by Alexander Pushkin (2008 Edition)
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008 edition)
• A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

American Library Association - Notable Books for Adults - Fiction

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Borders Original Voices

• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin (2006)

Franz Kafka Prize

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Guardian 1000

• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Family and self)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Shortlist, 2007)

Libraires du Québec

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (Current Interest, 1997)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Quarterfinalist, 2006)

National Book Award finalist

• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (Fiction, 1962)
• Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. by Walter A. McDougall (Nonfiction, 1985)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Public Library's Books to Remember list

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2005)

New York Times bestseller

• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (Fiction, 1961)
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, 2003)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Fiction, 2005)

Orange Prize Longlist

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2004)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Pulitzer Prize

• Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. by Walter A. McDougall (History, 1986)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (54)

Salon Book Award

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2005)
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (Nonfiction, 1997)

SF Site Editor's Choice

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction (4), 2003)

World Fantasy Award

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Novel, 2006)