Awards in your library

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

• Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1541 French Edition by John Calvin (1536)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (History, 2004)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Science & Technology, 2009)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama ( Change Your World, 2010)

Alex Award

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1999)

All Iowa Reads

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Ambassador Book Award

• A Thousand Acres by Smiley Jane (Fiction, 1992)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

Andre Simon Award

• The Oxford Companion to Food 2nd Ed by Alan Davidson (1999)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Gold medal, 2008)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2008)

Booklist Top of the List: Best of Editors' Choice

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (2007)

Borders Original Voices

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2002)

British Guild of Food Writers

• The Oxford Companion to Food 2nd Ed by Alan Davidson (Food Book of the Year, 2000)
• DANGEROUS TASTES : The Story of Spices (California Studies in Food and Culture, Vol. 1). (Food Book of the Year, 2001)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)
• An Introduction to the New Testament (Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Raymond E. Brown (No. 10, 1998, tie)
• Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil by John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (No. 11, 1999, tie)
• Worldview: The History of a Concept by David K. Naugle (Theology/Ethics, 2003)

Coretta Scott King Award

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Author, 2008)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

ECPA Christian Book Award

• The IVP Atlas of Bible History by Paul Lawrence (Bible Reference & Study, 2007)

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

• Operation World by Patrick Johnstone (Missions/Evangelism, 2002)

Elizabeth Longford Prize

• God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill (2008)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (007)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2002)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama (2009, shortlist)

Gerald Strauss Prize

• Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) by Amy Nelson Burnett (2008)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Children's Chapter Books, 2008)

Guardian 1000

• A Thousand Acres by Smiley Jane (Family and self)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Love)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Waiting for God by Simone/ Perrin Weil, Joseph Marie/ Craufurd, Emma (TRN)

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Book, 2001)

Heartland Prize

• A Thousand Acres by Smiley Jane (Fiction, 1991)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (2007)

IACP Cookbook Award

• Bottomfeeder : how to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood by Taras Grescoe (2009, finalist)

IPPY Finalist

• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva (Environment/Ecology/Nature, 2001)
• Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society by Marva J. Dawn (Religion, 2004)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill (Biography, 2007)

Kiriyama Prize

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (Nonfiction, 2007)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver (Lesbian Poetry, 2004)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2008)

Logos Book Award

• Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton (2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller (Science & Technology, 2008)

Michigan Notable Books

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (2008)

Morris D. Forkosch Prize

• Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 by Catherine Hall (2002)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award

• Word and Story in C.S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice by Peter J. and Charles A. Huttar Schakel (Inklings Studies, 1992)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey (Inklings Studies, 2001)

National Book Award

• The Christian World: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Martin Marty

National Book Critics Circle Award

• A Thousand Acres by Smiley Jane (Fiction, 1991)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2004)

Nautilus Book Award

• Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe (Social Change, 2003)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2004)

New York Times bestseller

• A Thousand Acres by Smiley Jane (Fiction, 1992)
• The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel ( PS3525.A4152 G6 1997) by Norman Mailer (Fiction, 1997)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)
• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama (Nonfiction, 2006)
• You're wearing that? : understanding mothers and daughters in conversation by Deborah Tannen (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael Oren (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America by Jim Wallis (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Shack by William P. Young (Paperback Trade Fiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason (Hardcover) by Russell Shorto (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (Nonfiction, 2009)
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch (Nonfiction, 2009)

Newbery Honor

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2009)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2009)

Odyssey Award Nominee

• Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Listening Library, Narrated by Mirron Willis)

Orange Prize Longlist

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

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