Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Jacob's Room (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
• Between the Acts (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
• Sula by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• A Maggot by John Fowles (2006 Edition)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Waves (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magus by John Fowles (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (37)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (45)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (37)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (42)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1976)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1986)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (Biography, 1999)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1999)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (American Arts & Letters, 1990)

American Book Award

• The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo (1987)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)
• In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End by Norma Field (1992)

American Sociological Association Section Award for Distinguished Scholarship

• Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1990)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1987)

Aurora Award Shortlist

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1986)

Bancarella

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1978)

Bancroft Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

BBC's Big Read

• The Magus by John Fowles (Best loved novel, 2003, No 67)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Best loved novel, 2003, No 131)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1986)

Canada Reads Nominee

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2002)

Combat des livres

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (selection, 2004)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 1987)

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

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Governor General's Literary Award

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1985)

Guardian 1000

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (Love)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Magus by John Fowles (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work It Out for Yourself (New Directions Paperbook, No 778) by Stevie Smith (State of the nation)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (War and travel)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

• The Magus by John Fowles (2009)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Shortlist

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Retrospective)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (Philip A. Lilienthal Asian Studies Imprint) by Dorothy Ko (2006)

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka (1993)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

John Whitney Hall Book Prize

• Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb by John Whittier Treat (1997)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History, Updated Edition by Bruce Cumings (1997)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Lesbian Studies, 1998)
• In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures) by Judith Halberstam (Transgender/Genderqueer, 2005)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (12)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (15)

Lillian Smith Award

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1977)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1986)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (History, 1999)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• A Maggot by John Fowles (1987)

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

• A Room of One's Own (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (4)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (51)
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard (89)

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

• A Room of One's Own (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (25)
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard (62)
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (76)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (91)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (The Board's List, 15)
• The Magus by John Fowles (The Board's List, 93)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (The Reader's List, 31)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (The Reader's List, 53)

National Book Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)

National Book Award finalist

• Sula by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1975)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Criticism, 1978)
• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 2003)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (General Nonfiction, 1976)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (General Nonfiction, 1999)

Nebula Nominee

• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (Novel, 1975)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Novel, 1986)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1976)
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (1978)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1986)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

New York Times bestseller

• The Magus by John Fowles (Fiction, 1966)
• A Maggot by John Fowles (Fiction, 1985)
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1986)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (General, 1971)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (General, 1976)
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (Nonfiction, 1989)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Winner)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2009, No. 7)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2009, No. 20)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2009, No. 24)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (2009, No. 97)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• Sula by Toni Morrison (2002)

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