Awards in your library

Summary: 13 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The last battle by Cornelius Ryan (1966)
• The right stuff by Tom Wolfe (1980)
• Yeager, an autobiography by Chuck Yeager (1985)
• Going solo by Roald Dahl (1986)
• Flight of Passage: A True Story by Rinker Buck (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (History, 2004)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Flyboys : a true story of courage by James Bradley ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh (019)
• The right stuff by Tom Wolfe (026)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (Biography, 1998)

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

• The right stuff by Tom Wolfe (52)

National Book Award

• The right stuff by Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The right stuff by Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction, 1979)

New York Times bestseller

• Flight to Arras by Antoine De Saint Exupery (General, 1942)
• Back to Mandalay, by Lowell Thomas (General, 1952)
• The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh (General, 1953)
• Baa baa, black sheep by Gregory. Boyington (General, 1958)
• Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann (General, 1961)
• The last battle by Cornelius Ryan (General, 1966)
• The last 100 days by John Toland (General, 1966)
• Rickenbacker by Eddie Rickenbacker (General, 1967)
• Operation Overflight: the U-2 spy pilot tells his story for the first time by Francis Gary Powers (General, 1970)
• MIRACLE AT MIDWAY by Gordon W. Prange (General, 1982)
• Yeager, an autobiography by Chuck Yeager (Nonfiction, 1985)
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Flyboys : a true story of courage by James Bradley (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The war : an intimate history, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward (Nonfiction, 2007)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh (Biography or Autobiography, 1954)
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (Biography or Autobiography, 1999)
• The Rising Sun by John Toland (General Non-Fiction, 1971)

Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize

• Eagle against the sun : the American war with Japan by Ronald H. Spector (1986)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (Non-fiction (3), 1998)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

• Going solo by Roald Dahl (1997, No 75)