Awards in your library

Summary: 48 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Lincoln : a photobiography by Russell Freedman (1988)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble C: An American Slave (Barnes & Noble by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)

Allan Nevins Prize

• Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age by George B. Forgie (1973)

Ambassador Book Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (American Studies, 1993)

Bancroft Prize

• Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nat by Eric Foner (1989)
• The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (2006)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2009)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln's America by Adele Gutman Nathan (1963)
• Lincoln's Gettysburg declaration: "A new birth of freedom," by Louis Austin Warren (1965)
• Lincoln today; an introduction to modern Lincolniana by Victor Searcher (1970)
• The image of Lincoln in the South by Michael Davis (1972)
• With malice toward none : the life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1978)
• Lincoln and Black freedom : a study in presidential leadership by LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox (1982)
• The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia by Mark E. Neely (1983)
• Lincoln : a novel by Gore Vidal (1985)
• The Historian's Lincoln : pseudohistory, psychohistory, and history by G. S. Boritt (1989)
• The fate of liberty : Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties by Mark E. Neely (1992)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (1993)
• The presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip S. Paludan (1995)
• Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln by Don Fehrenbacher (1997)
• Honor's voice : the transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson (1999)
• Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis (2000)
• Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller (2003)
• Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics by Stewart Lance Winger (2004)
• Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer (2005)
• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)
• The Gettysburg gospel : the Lincoln speech that nobody knows by G. S. Boritt (2007)
• Lincoln the Lawyer by Brian Dirck (2008)
• Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds (2009)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The march : a novel by E. L. Doctorow ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booksense Year End Highlight

• Mary by Janis Cooke Newman

CBC Graphic Novels for Young Readers

• The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels)) by Rick Geary

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Nonfiction, Silver, 2007)

Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize

• The sword of Lincoln : the Army of the Potomac by Jeffry D. Wert (2006)

Edgar Award

• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (Fact Crime, 2007)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial by John Evangelist Walsh (Fact Crime, 2001)

Fletcher Pratt Award

• William Henry Seward by Glyndon G. Van Deusen (1967)
• Apostles of disunion : Southern secession commissioners and the causes of the Civil War by Charles B. Dew (2001)
• First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War by Joan E. Cashin (2007)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nat by Eric Foner (1989)

Golden Kite Honor

• Lincoln : a photobiography by Russell Freedman (Nonfiction, 1987)

Heartland Prize

• The age of Lincoln by Orville Vernon Burton (Non-Fiction, 2007)

Henry Adams Prize

• Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency by William C. Harris (2008)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Lincoln : a photobiography by Russell Freedman (1988)

Jefferson Cup

• Lincoln : a photobiography by Russell Freedman (1988)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2007)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

• Lincoln's dreams by Connie Willis (1988)

Lincoln Institute Award Best Book

• Lincoln's Last Months by William C. Harris (2004)

Lincoln Prize

• The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward (1991)
• The presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip S. Paludan (1995)
• With charity for all : Lincoln and the restoration of the Union by William C. Harris (1998)
• Honor's voice : the transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson (1999)
• Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo (2000)
• Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine (2004)
• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo (2005)
• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)
• Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words by Douglas L. Wilson (2007)
• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2008)
• The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes (2008)
• Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds (2009)
• Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief by James M. McPherson (2009)

Los Angeles Times Book of the Year finalist

• Mary by Janis Cooke Newman

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nat by Eric Foner (History, 1988)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (History, 2008)

Maine Literary Award

• Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan (2009, winner)

National Book Award

• Walt Whitman, a life by Justin Kaplan (Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist

• The march : a novel by E. L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2005)
• Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War by Kenneth P. Williams (Nonfiction, 1950)
• Abraham Lincoln : a biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas (Nonfiction, 1953)
• Lincoln the president : midstream by J. G. Randall (Nonfiction, 1953)
• Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years / The Illustrated Edition by Carl Sandburg (Nonfiction, 1955)
• Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald (Nonfiction, 1961)
• Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nat by Eric Foner (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Battlefield : farming a Civil War battleground by Peter Svenson (Nonfiction, 1993)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (Criticism, 1992)
• The march : a novel by E. L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography, 2005)
• Walt Whitman, a life by Justin Kaplan (General Nonfiction, 1980)
• Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nat by Eric Foner (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (General Nonfiction, 2008)
• What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Nonfiction, 2007)

NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

• Letters From Vinnie by Handprint Staff (2000)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Walt Whitman, a life by Justin Kaplan (1980)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (1992)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

New York Times bestseller

• Lincoln : a novel by Gore Vidal (Fiction, 1984)
• The last full measure by Jeff Shaara (Fiction, 1998)
• Lincoln, the President: Springfield to Gettysburg by J. G. Randall (General, 1945)
• Abraham Lincoln : a biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas (General, 1952)
• Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years / The Illustrated Edition by Carl Sandburg (General, 1954)
• The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
• April 1865 : the month that saved America by Jay Winik (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Crossroads of freedom : Antietam by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 2008)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newbery Honor

• Abraham Lincoln : friend of the people by Clara Ingram Judson (1951)

Newbery Medal

• Lincoln : a photobiography by Russell Freedman (1988)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (2009, No. 26)
• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (2009, No. 53)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (2006)

PEN/Faulkner Award

• The march : a novel by E. L. Doctorow (2006)

Pulitzer Prize

• Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald (Biography or Autobiography, 1961)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (General Non-Fiction, 1993)
• The fate of liberty : Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties by Mark E. Neely (History, 1992)
• What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (History, 2008)
• John Brown's body: a poem by Stephen Vincent Benét (Poetry, 1929)
• Western star by Stephen Vincent Benét (Poetry, 1944)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Walt Whitman, a life by Justin Kaplan (Biography or Autobiography, 1981)
• The march : a novel by E. L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2006)
• Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nat by Eric Foner (History, 1989)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America by Garry Wills (History, 1993)
• The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (History, 2006)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (History, 2009)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose (Non-fiction (1), 2000)
• The march : a novel by E. L. Doctorow (Fiction (5), 2005)

USA Today's Best Historical Fiction of the Year

• Mary by Janis Cooke Newman (2006)