Awards in your library

Summary: 41 Awards.

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

• Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures--The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text by JPS (13th–4th century BCE)
• The Upanishads (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (7th–5th century BCE)
• Tao Te Ching (Shambhala Library) by Lao Tzu (3rd century BCE)
• The Dhammapada (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (252 BCE)
• The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers) by Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem (7th century)

ALA Notable Book

• Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (What Makes a Family?, 2008)

Alex Award

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (2006)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time Series) by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Gold medal, 2007)

Bancroft Prize

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

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2006)
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by Jacobs A. J. ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)

Books for a Better Life Award

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (2008)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library) by William James

British Academy Book Prize

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

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by Professor George M. Marsden (History/Biography, 2004)
• Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris (No. 7, 1999, tie)

Christopher Award

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (2006)

Florida Teens Read

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (2007-2008)

Great Lakes Book Award

• Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch (General Nonfiction, 2000)

Green Prize for Sustainable Literature

• Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library) by William James
• The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

IPPY

• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (Religion, 2005)

Lambda Literary Award

• Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (Gay Men's Studies, 1993)
• The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes (Spirituality, 1996)

Library Journal Best Book

• Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky (2004)

Massachusetts Book Award

• Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky (Nonfiction, 2005)

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

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library) by William James (2)

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

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library) by William James (43)
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Commemorative Edition (Bollingen Series (General)) by Joseph Campbell (93)

National Book Award

• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction, 1989)

National Book Critics Circle Award

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

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by Professor George M. Marsden (Biography, 2003)
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett (Criticism, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (1989)

New York Times bestseller

• The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore by Deepak Chopra (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2008)
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2008)
• Comet by Carl and Ann Druyan Sagan (Nonfiction, 1986)
• When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough by Kushner (Nonfiction, 1986)
• The Book of J by David Rosenberg (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Working With Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong (Nonfiction, 2004)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion by Bruce Feiler (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by Jacobs A. J. (Nonfiction, 2007)
• God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by William Irwin (Paperback Nonfiction, 2003)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• God: A Biography by Jack Miles (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library) by William James (2009, No. 89)

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (1990)

OAH Merle Curti Award

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

Oprah's Book Club selection

• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds (1997)

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

• All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things by Robert Fulghum (1989)

PEN/Martha Albrand Award

• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (2005)

Pulitzer Prize

• God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Biography or Autobiography, 1996)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker (General Non-Fiction, 2003)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker (General, 2003)

Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

• Between the Woods and the Water: On foot to Constantinople from the hook of Holland: The middle Danube to the Iron Gate. by Patrick Leigh Fermor (1986/87)

Wolfson History Prize

• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2003)