Awards in your library

Summary: 39 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• London Fields by Martin Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (Non-fiction, 1999)
• BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA [ 1st ] by Dorothy Allison (Fiction, 1999)

American Book Award

• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (1996)

Bay Area Reviewers Award

• BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA [ 1st ] by Dorothy Allison (Fiction)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2008)

British Book Award

• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Book of the Year, 1999)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2007)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2000)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2007)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2008)

Forward Poetry Prize

• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Best Collection, 1998)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2001)

Guardian 1000

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (State of the nation)
• The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (War and travel)

Hammett Prize Nominee

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2007)

Hugo

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2008)

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

• Immortality (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (1991)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (Shortlist, 1997)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2008)

Locus

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (SF Novel, 2008)

Locus Award

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Best Science Fiction Novel, 2008)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart (Finalist, 2007)

Murray Morgan Prize

• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (1995)

National Book Award finalist

• BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA [ 1st ] by Dorothy Allison (Fiction, 1992)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2000)

Nebula

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2007)

New York City Book Award

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2000)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• London Fields by Martin Amis (1990)
• Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart (2006)

New York Times bestseller

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Shirley Jackson (Fiction, 1962)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (Fiction, 1990)
• Immortality (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Fiction, 1991)
• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Fiction, 1998)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2001)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2007)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart (Fiction & Poetry, 2006)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Fiction & Poetry, 2007)
• Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander (Non-Fiction, 2007)

Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2007, No 02)

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)

Publishing Triangle

• BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA [ 1st ] by Dorothy Allison (Female, 1993)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2001)

Salon Book Award

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2007)

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

• The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story (Vintage) by Ken Dornstein (2006)

SF Site Editor's Choice

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2007)

Sidewise Award

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Long Form, 2007)

T. S. Eliot Prize

• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction (2), 2000)
• Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart (Best Book (7) 2006)

Whitbread

• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Book of the Year, 1998)