Awards in your library

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

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-1885)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Master of Petersburg : A Novel by J M Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• Fury by Salman Rushdie (2006 Edition)
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Bonfire of The Vanities First Edition by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses (Modern Library Giant, 52.1) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Shipping News : A Novel by Annie Proulx (2006/2008 Edition)
• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
• Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2006/2008 Edition)
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008 Edition)
• The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (2008 edition)
• Paradise of the Blind: A Novel by Duong Thu Huong (2008 Edition)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics) by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi (creative writing, top twelve)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (17)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (18)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic (1976)
• Jailbird: a novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1979)
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz (1992)
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (1994)
• Rule of the Bone: Novel, A by Russell Banks (1996)
• Into the Wild (MTI) by Jon Krakauer (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (Fiction, 1999)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (History, 2004)
• The Red Tent: A Novel: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Anita Diamant (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Stonewall by Martin Bauml Duberman (1994)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely (2005)

Alex Award

• Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss (2001)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Bonfire of The Vanities First Edition by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Fiction, 2002)

American Book Award

• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (1999)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Bancarella

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (1995)

Bancroft Prize

• Eugene V. Debs: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST (Working Class in American History) by Nick Salvatore (1983)
• Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely (2005)

BBC's Big Read

• Ulysses (Modern Library Giant, 52.1) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Best loved novel, 2003, No 136)
• The Shipping News : A Novel by Annie Proulx (Best loved novel, 2003, No 164)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Best loved novel, 2003, No 175)

Betty Trask Award

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Red Tent: A Novel: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Anita Diamant (Adult Fiction Winner, 2001)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2004)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Carl Sandburg Award

• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

Christopher Award

• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack (Nonfiction, Silver, 1979)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Best First Book, 2001)

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

• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. by PETER MATTHEISSEN

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Jugendbuch, 1994)

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Karl Marx, a Life by Francis Wheen (1999)

English-Speaking Union Award

• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack (1980)
• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 And How It Changed America by John M. Barry (1998)

Frederic W. Ness Book Award

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (2005)

Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Document, 2005)

Great Lakes Book Award

• One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream by Phyllis Vine (General Nonfiction, 2004)

Guardian 1000

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Family and self)
• Ulysses (Modern Library Giant, 52.1) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Family and self)
• The Shipping News : A Novel by Annie Proulx (Family and self)
• Blindness (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (State of the nation)
• The Bonfire of The Vanities First Edition by Tom Wolfe (State of the nation)
• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (State of the nation)

Guardian First Book Award

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (1999)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)

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

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (2009)

Heartland Prize

• The Shipping News : A Novel by Annie Proulx (Fiction, 1993)

IPPY

• What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (General Fiction, 2007)

IPPY Finalist

• War Talk by Arundhati Roy (Essay/Creative Non-Fiction, 2004)

Irish Times International Fiction Prize

• The Shipping News : A Novel by Annie Proulx (1993)
• The Master of Petersburg : A Novel by J M Coetzee (1995)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1981)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Fiction, 2000)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (Biography, 1997)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Eugene V. Debs: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST (Working Class in American History) by Nick Salvatore (1984)

Justin Winsor Prize

• Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742 by Carl Bridenbaugh (1937)

Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History

• The Segregation Struggle in Louisiana 1862-77 by Roger A. Fischer (1974)
• Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement by Kim Rogers (1993)
• Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 by Adam Fairclough (1995)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Stonewall by Martin Bauml Duberman (Gay Men's Studies, 1993)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Ulysses (Modern Library Giant, 52.1) by James Joyce (2)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (20)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce (21)
• Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Salman Rushdie (41)

Libraires du Québec

• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 1996)

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