Awards in your library

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

• The enneads by Plotinus., (3rd century)
• Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (400 AD)
• The Koran by N. J. Dawood (7th century)
• The comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine by Dante Alighieri, (1321)
• Calvin : Institutes of the Christian religion : in two volumes by Jean Calvin (1536)
• The complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is to Come (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan (1684)
• The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life by Charles Darwin (1859)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (2006 Edition)
• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is to Come (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• Coming up for air by George Orwell (2006 Edition)
• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• A boy's own story by Edmund White (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Rainbow (Penguin Modern Classics) by D.H. Lawrence (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (English Library) by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (2006/2008 Edition)
• Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• Finn family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (2009, No 499, Age 8 and over)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (15)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (37)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (37)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1986)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Fiction, 1999)
• The seven daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes (Science & Technology, 2004)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette (1993)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century by John Boswell (1981)

Andre Simon Award

• The Potato: The Story of How a Vegetable Changed History by Larry Zuckerman (1999)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1987)

Aurora Award Shortlist

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1986)

Bancarella

• Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)

BBC's Big Read

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 01)
• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Best loved novel, 2003, No 131)

BILBY

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 2002)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1986)

Books in Canada First Novel Award

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1996)

British Academy Book Prize

• A Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

Canada Reads Nominee

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (2002)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• An essay on the development of Christian doctrine by John Henry Newman (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Literary Classics)
• The comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine by Dante Alighieri, (Literary Classics)
• City of God (Penguin Classics) by St. Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
• Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• St Augustine by Garry Wills (History/Biography, 2000)

Combat des livres

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (selection, 2004)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 1987)

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

• What is history the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 by Edward Hallett Carr
• Religion and the decline of magic studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by Keith Thomas

Duff Cooper Prize

• Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1996)
• From the holy mountain : a journey in the shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple (1998)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Voyage of the Beagle : Charles Darwin's Journal of researches by Charles Darwin (023)

Giller Prize Shortlist

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1996)

Giuseppe Acerbi

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (Canada, 2001)

Governor General's Literary Award

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Fiction, 1985)

Guardian 1000

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (English Library) by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• The Rainbow (Penguin Modern Classics) by D.H. Lawrence (Love)
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (War and travel)

Guardian Fiction Prize

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1997)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The Trip to Panama (German Edition) by Janosch

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The collected poems of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History

• The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Voyage of the Beagle : Charles Darwin's Journal of researches by Charles Darwin (1960)

International Fantasy Award

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Fiction, 1957)

IPPY Finalist

• Faith beyond resentment : fragments Catholic and gay by James Alison (Gay/Lesbian, 2002)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Biography, 1996)
• The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd (Biography, 1998)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Shortlist

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Retrospective)

Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1998)

John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize Shortlist

• From the holy mountain : a journey in the shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple (1998)

Lambda Literary Award

• Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette (Gay Men's Nonfiction, 1992)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Humor, 2004)
• The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes (Spirituality, 1996)
• Courage to Love by Geoffrey Duncan (Spirituality, 2002)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Men on men 7 : best new gay fiction by David Bergman (Anthology/Fiction, 1998)
• Queer Reader by Patrick Higgins (Anthology/Nonfiction, 1994)
• Dare, Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (Children's/Young Adult, 1999)
• The Marriage of Likeness Same-sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell (Gay Men's Studies, 1994)
• Virtually normal : an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan (Gay Men's Studies, 1995)
• Love Undetectable: Reflections on Friendship, Sex and Survival by Andrew Sullivan (Gay Men's Studies, 1998)
• Both feet firmly planted in midair : my spiritual journey by John J. McNeill (Religion/Spirituality, 1998)
• The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism by Mark D. Jordan (Spirituality/Religion, 2000)

Lannan Literary Award for Fiction

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1996)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Fiction, 1986)
• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (Fiction, 1998)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1972)
• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (2001)

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

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (72)

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

• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (56)

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