Awards in your library

Summary: 12 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Multicultural Fiction, 1997)

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: March 2009

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (#18)

American Book Award

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1985)

Frederic W. Ness Book Award

• Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education by Peter Sacks (2009)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby (Biography, 2008)

New York Times bestseller

• The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch (Nonfiction, 2009)
• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (Nonfiction, 2009)

Publishers Weekly's Best Books: 2009

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Best Books: 2009

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (Non-fiction (10), 2009)