Awards in your library

Summary: 44 Awards.

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Ulrich Beck (Criminal Elements, 2006)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar (2001)

Alex Award

• Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Ulrich Beck (2005)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher (#86)

APSA Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award

• The Foundations of American Citizenship : Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtue by Richard C. Sinopoli (1993)

Bancroft Prize

• Seedtime of the Republic by Clinton Lawrence Rossiter (1954)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg (1964)

Best Books 2006 Awards Finalist (Lombardo, Unabridged Audio) Parmenides Publishing

• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy (Literary Classics)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• On Leadership by John W. Gardner (Leadership)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg (1964)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution by Terry Bouton (honorable mention, 2008)

Goldsmith Book Prize

• Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics : Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People by Scott L. Althaus (Academic, 2004)
• Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics by James A. Stimson (Academic, 2006)
• Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy by Diana C. Mutz (Academic, 2007)

The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order

• Expert Political Judgment: How Good is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock (2008)
• Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy by Michael Johnston (2009)

Guardian 1000

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa

Henry Adams Prize

• Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961 (Business, Society, and the State) by Jonathan J. Bean (1997)

Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History

• Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961 (Business, Society, and the State) by Jonathan J. Bean (1995)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy (Current Interest, 1983)

LOST Book Club

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Massachusetts Book Award

• Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Ulrich Beck (Fiction, 2005)

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

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (28)
• The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly (95)

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

• Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (Penguin Psychology) by Aaron T. Beck (23)
• Libertarianism : A Primer by David Boaz (69)
• Beyond liberal and conservative: Reassessing the political spectrum by William S Maddox (70)

National Book Award

• Anarchy, State, And Utopia by Robert Nozick (Philosophy and Religion, 1975)
• The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (Poetry, 1970)

National Book Award finalist

• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer (Translation, 1968)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (1972)

New York Times bestseller

• The Republic: Conversations on fundamentals by Charles Austin Beard (General, 1943)
• The agenda : inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward (Nonfiction, 1994)
• La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind by Beppe Severgnini (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Nonfiction, 2006)
• My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer (2009, No. 8)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh (2007)

OAH Merle Curti Award

• Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 by James T. Kloppenberg (1987)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003)

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

• The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini (1970)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1991)

Pulitzer Prize

• Machiavelli in Hell (Vintage) by Sebastian De Grazia (Biography or Autobiography, 1990)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood (Biography or Autobiography, 2003)
• The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 by Hugh Davis Graham (History, 1991)
• The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar (History, 2001)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (General, 2007)

Runciman Award

• Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian by Robin Lane Fox (2006)

Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award

• Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy (2007)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius (2008)
• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer ([trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996)

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award

• Seedtime of the Republic by Clinton Lawrence Rossiter (1953)