Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1996)
• We shall not be moved : the women's factory strike of 1909 by Joan Dash (1997)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)
• The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt ( I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1996)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• William Cooper's town : power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic by Alan Taylor (1996)

Ambassador Book Award

• Lake Wobegon days by Garrison Keillor (Fiction, 1986)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (American Studies, 2005)

American Book Award

• Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen (1996)

Americanism Award (1985) for The Winning of America Series

• Wilderness empire : a narrative by Allan W. Eckert

Bancroft Prize

• Virgin land; the American West as symbol and myth by Henry Nash Smith (1951)
• The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood (1970)
• William Cooper's town : power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic by Alan Taylor (1996)
• The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue (1998)

BBC's Big Read

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Hiding to survive : stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust by Maxine B. Rosenberg (1994)
• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1995)

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Story of Civilization Part 3: Caesar and Christ by Will Durant (Nonfiction, Gold, 1944)
• The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (Nonfiction, Gold, 1982)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, XI) by Will and Ariel Durant (Nonfiction, Silver, 1975)

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

• North star country by Meridel Le Sueur

Cox Book Prize

• The divided ground : Indians, settlers and the northern borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor (2007)

Duff Cooper Prize

• The fatal shore by Robert Hughes (1987)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Journals of Lewis and Clark (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Meriwether Lewis (002)
• We die alone by David Armine Howarth (083)
• North American Indians by George Catlin (094)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The great crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (Booms and Busts)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash (1972)
• Truman by David McCullough (1993)
• The unredeemed captive : a family story from early America by John Demos (1995)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• A leap in the dark : the struggle to create the American republic by John E. Ferling (2004)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2005)

Great Lakes Book Award

• One man's castle : Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream by Phyllis Vine (General Nonfiction, 2004)
• Made in Detroit : a south of 8 Mile memoir by Paul Clemens (General Nonfiction, 2006)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• The living Great Lakes : searching for the heart of the inland seas by Jerry Dennis (General Nonfiction, 2003)
• Grit, noise, and revolution : the birth of Detroit rock 'n' roll by David Carson (General, 2005)

Guardian 1000

• Lake Wobegon days by Garrison Keillor (Comedy)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf (Love)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Night by Elie Wiesel

Herbert Feis Award

• The fatal shore by Robert Hughes (1987)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• America before man; by Elizabeth Chesley Baity (1954)
• The tavern at the ferry by Edwin Tunis (1974)
• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) by David Macaulay (1981)
• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1996)

IPPY Silver

• Death's door : the truth behind Michigan's largest mass murder by Steve Lehto (True Crime, 2007)

Jefferson Cup

• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1996)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Virgin land; the American West as symbol and myth by Henry Nash Smith (1950)
• The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood (1970)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Truman by David McCullough (1992)

Michigan Notable Books

• The living Great Lakes : searching for the heart of the inland seas by Jerry Dennis (2004)
• Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan by Benjamin J. Shelak (2004)
• Off the record by Tim Skubick (2004)
• A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War by Richard Bak (2005)
• Soapy : a biography of G. Mennen Williams by Thomas J. Noer (2006)
• Michigan shadow towns : a study of vanishing and vibrant villages by Gene Scott (2006)
• Made in Detroit : a south of 8 Mile memoir by Paul Clemens (2006)
• Mighty Fitz : the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher (2006)
• Grit, noise, and revolution : the birth of Detroit rock 'n' roll by David Carson (2006)
• Death's door : the truth behind Michigan's largest mass murder by Steve Lehto (2007)
• A stronger kinship : one town's extraordinary story of hope and faith by Anna-Lisa Cox (2007)

Minnesota Book Awards

• Lost Twin Cities by Larry Millett ( Information, 1993)

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

• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (77)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (The Board's List, 86)

National Book Award

• Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash (Biography, 1972)

National Book Award finalist

• Anatomy of a murder by Robert Traver (Fiction, 1959)
• Eisenhower's lieutenants : the campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945 by Russell Frank. Weigley (History (Hardcover), 1982)
• The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood (History and Biography, 1970)
• Story of Civilization Part 6:The Reformation by Will Durant (Nonfiction, 1958)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The unredeemed captive : a family story from early America by John Demos (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Fiction, 1975)
• Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills (General Nonfiction, 1978)
• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (General Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• The unredeemed captive : a family story from early America by John Demos (General Nonfiction, 1994)

Nebula Nominee

• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Novel, 1975)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash (1971)
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (1975)
• Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills (1978)
• The fatal shore by Robert Hughes (1987)
• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (1988)
• The rise and fall of the great powers : economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul M. Kennedy (1988)

New York Times bestseller

• The Spider King; a biographical novel of Louis XI of France by Lawrence L. Schoonover (Fiction, 1954)
• Anatomy of a murder by Robert Traver (Fiction, 1958)
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Fiction, 1975)
• Lake Wobegon days by Garrison Keillor (Fiction, 1985)
• 3001 : the final odyssey by Arthur Charles Clarke (Fiction, 1997)
• The last juror by John Grisham (Fiction, 2004)
• The year of decision, 1846 by Bernard Augustine De Voto (General, 1943)
• LAKE HURON THE AMERICAL LAKES SERIES by Fred Landon (General, 1944)
• Saints and strangers, being the lives of the Pilgrim fathers & their families with their friends & foes; & an account of by George F. Willison (General, 1945)
• Lake Erie by Harlan Henthorne Hatcher (General, 1945)
• Detroit is my own home town by Malcolm Wallace Bingay (General, 1946)
• The great crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (General, 1955)
• The age of steam; a classic album of American railroading by Lucius Morris Beebe (General, 1957)
• Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash (General, 1971)
• Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman (General, 1972)
• Alistair Cooke's America. by Alistair Cooke (General, 1973)
• Washington goes to war by David Brinkley (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 1988)
• The Bootlegger's Boy by Barry Switzer (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Charles Kuralt's America by Charles Kuralt (Nonfiction, 1995)
• Founding mothers : the women who raised our nation by Cokie Roberts (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Imperial hubris : why the West is losing the war on terror by Michael Scheuer (Nonfiction, 2004)
• America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction by Jon Stewart (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Secrets of the code : the unauthorized guide to the mysteries behind the Da Vinci code (Nonfiction, 2004)
• In focus : National Geographic greatest portraits (Nonfiction, 2005)
• 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about American history, but never learned by Kenneth C. Davis (Paperback Nonfiction, 1991)

Newbery Honor

• The great fire by Jim Murphy (1996)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf (2009, No. 48)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (2009, No. 76)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf

OAH Merle Curti Award

• Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills (1979)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf (2003)

Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship

• Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen

Oprah's Book Club selection

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, graf (2004)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (2006)

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