Awards in your library

Summary: 47 Awards.

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library) by Naguib Mahfouz (creative writing, top twelve)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (2003)
• Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier (2009)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (Biography, 1999)
• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito ( GLBTQ, 2006)
• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (What Makes a Family?, 2008)
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama ( Change Your World, 2010)

Ambassador Book Award

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (American Studies, 1997)

Aurealis Award Finalist

• Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier (YA Novel, 2007)

BBC's Big Read

• Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome (Best loved novel, 2003, No 101)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Sijie Dai ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)
• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2006)

Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award

• Peony in Love by Lisa See (2008)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T. J. English (Fact Crime, 2009)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama (2009, shortlist)

George Washington Book Prize Finalist

• A perfect union [sound recording] : [Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation] by Catherine Allgor (2007)

Great Lakes Book Award

• An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just (Fiction, 2005)

Guardian 1000

• Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome (Comedy)
• My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Crime)

Heartland Prize

• An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just (Fiction, 2004)

International IMPAC Dublin

• My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Winner, 2003)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito (Gay Men's Debut Fiction, 2004)

Libraires du Québec

• Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Sijie Dai (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2001)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (2002)

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

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (32)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just (Quarterfinalist, 2005)

Médicis

• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (Essai, 2007)

National Book Award

• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (Nonfiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (Autobiography/Memoir, 2005)
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan (General Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (2005)

New York Times bestseller

• Monday the rabbi Took Off by Harry Kemelman (Fiction, 1972)
• Cold Paradise (Stone Barrington Novels) by Stuart Woods (Fiction, 2001)
• The Short Forever by Stuart. Woods (Fiction, 2002)
• Villa incognito by Tom. Robbins (Fiction, 2003)
• Capital Crimes by Stuart Woods (Fiction, 2003)
• The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant (Fiction, 2004)
• Sweetwater Creek : a novel by Anne Rivers. Siddons (Fiction, 2005)
• Two Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington Novels) by Stuart Woods (Fiction, 2005)
• Iron orchid by Stuart. Woods (Fiction, 2005)
• Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 7) by Alexander Mccall Smith (Fiction, 2006)
• Treasure of Khan (A Dirk Pitt Novel) by Clive Cussler (Fiction, 2006)
• Dark harbor by Stuart. Woods (Fiction, 2006)
• Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber (Fiction, 2006)
• Peony in Love by Lisa See (Fiction, 2007)
• Pure Drivel by Steve Martin (Nonfiction, 1998)
• In a sunburned country by Bill. Bryson (Nonfiction, 2000)
• An hour before daylight [sound recording] : [memories of a rural boyhood] by Jimmy Carter (Nonfiction, 2001)
• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Palestine peace not apartheid by Jimmy Carter (Nonfiction, 2006)
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama (Nonfiction, 2006)
• A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes (Nonfiction, 2006)
• A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Friendship and Freedom by Deborah Rodriguez (Nonfiction, 2007)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam by Mark Bowden (2009)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome (2003)

Orange Prize Longlist

• The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel by Andrea. Barrett (1999)
• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (2002)

Orange Prize Shortlist

• Lottery by Patricia Wood (2008)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Novel, 2002)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• An hour before daylight [sound recording] : [memories of a rural boyhood] by Jimmy Carter (Biography or Autobiography, 2002)
• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (Biography or Autobiography, 2006)
• An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just (Fiction, 2005)

Quill Award

• Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan (Biography/Memoir, Audto Book, 2006)

Reading Across Rhode Island

• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (2004)

Salon Book Award

• The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel by Andrea. Barrett (Fiction, 1998)

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

• West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary (2002)
• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (2002)

Scott Moncrieff prize

• Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Sijie Dai (2002)

SEBA Book Award

• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (Fiction, 2003)

SIBA Book Award

• Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan (Nonfiction, 2006)

Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier (Novel - Young Adult, 2008)

South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee

• The secret life of bees by Sue Monk. Kidd (2005-2006)

Spur Award

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (Nonfiction-Historical, 1996)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The year of magical thinking [sound recording] by Joan. Didion (Non-fiction (4), 2005)

Torgi

• In a sunburned country by Bill. Bryson (2002)

Washington Post Best Fiction

• Lottery by Patricia Wood (2007)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (2007, No 24)