Awards in your library

Summary: 27 Awards.

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

• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus (120 AD)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine (400 AD)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set) by John Calvin (1536)
• Discourse on Method And The Meditations by Rene Descartes (1637)
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke) by John Locke (1684)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (1759)
• Critique of Pure Reason (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel (1807)
• Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx (1848)
• I And Thou by Martin Buber (1923)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored & Explained by John Bowker (Arts & Humanities, 2009)

Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History

• The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch (1988; American Society of Church History)

Bancroft Prize

• The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman (1985)
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (2004)

Book Prize of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

• The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch (1989)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Apocryphal New Testament by M. R. James
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (History/Biography, 2004)
• The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethi by Richard B. Hays (No. 2, 1997)
• Evangelicalism & the Future of Christianity by Alister McGrath (No. 3, 1996)
• The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (No. 9, 1998, tie)
• An Introduction to the New Testament (Anchor Bible Reference) by Raymond E. Brown (No. 10, 1998, tie)
• The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century by Vinson Synan (No. 15, 1998, tie)
• The Christian Theology Reader (No. 18, 1996, tie)
• The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels by Luke Timothy Johnson (No. 22, 1996, tie)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• The Bible As It Was (Belknap) by James L. Kugel (2001)

Guardian 1000

• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth
• The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
• I And Thou by Martin Buber

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature (Routledge Classics) by Jonathan Culler (1975)

John Hope Franklin Publication Prize

• The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch (1990)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity by Bruce Bawer (Spirituality/Religion, 1997)

National Book Award

• A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Philosophy and Religion, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

• Introduction to the Old Testament As Scripture by Brevard S. Childs (Religion/Inspiration (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (General Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (Biography, 2003)
• The Bible As It Was (Belknap) by James L. Kugel (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (1986)

New York Times bestseller

• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (General, 1945)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI (Nonfiction, 2007)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America) by Alexis de Tocqueville (2009, No. 26)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2009, No. 28)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (2009, No. 31)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine (2009, No. 32)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (2009, No. 34)

OAH Merle Curti Award

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (2004)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman (Biography or Autobiography, 1985)
• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (General Non-Fiction, 1987)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (2008)
• The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius (2008)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine (2008)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (2008)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2008)
• Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America) by Alexis de Tocqueville (2008)

Wolfson History Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2003)