Awards in your library

Summary: 39 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (2006/2008 Edition)

Agatha Award Nominee

• The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell (Novel, 1989)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (History & Cultures, 2009)

Anthony Award

• The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell (Best Novel, 1990)

Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

• Smallbone Deceased (Penguin Crime Fiction) by Michael Gilbert (1950)
• Johnny Under Ground (Inspector Henry Tibbett Mystery) by Patricia Moyes (1965)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• Smallbone Deceased (Penguin Crime Fiction) by Michael Gilbert

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Europe Central by William Vollmann (Fiction, Gold, 2005)
• Where I Was From by Joan Didion (Special Acknowledgement, Silver, 2003)

Edgar Award

• Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters (Best Novel, 1963)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Many Deadly Returns: An Inspector Henry Tibbett Mystery (Henry Tibbett Mysteries) by Patricia Moyes (Novel, 1971)

Guardian 1000

• Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad (Crime)
• Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman by Vasily Grossman (War and travel)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (War and travel)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• Smallbone Deceased (Penguin Crime Fiction) by Michael Gilbert (43)

Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies

• Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (Yale Historical Publica by Eric Tagliacozzo (2007)

IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

• Smallbone Deceased (Penguin Crime Fiction) by Michael Gilbert
• Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

International IMPAC Dublin

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Winner, 2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (History, 2000)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1962)
• Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman by Vasily Grossman (1984)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick (Semifinalist, 2005)

National Book Award

• Europe Central by William Vollmann (Fiction, 2005)

National Book Award finalist

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Fiction, 2003)
• THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS by PAUL THEROUX (General Nonfiction (Paperback), 1981)
• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (Nonfiction, 2000)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Fiction, 2003)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk (Autobiography/Memoir, 2005)
• Europe Central by William Vollmann (Fiction, 2005)
• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (General Nonfiction, 2000)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux (1975)
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003)

New York Times bestseller

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (Fiction, 1963)
• Message From Malaga by Helen MacInnes (Fiction, 1971)

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

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Multiple Votes)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (2003)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1964)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (Novel, 1962)
• Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman by Vasily Grossman (Novel, 1984)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Fiction, 2004)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk (2005)

SWR-Bestenliste

• Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman by Vasily Grossman (2008)

Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

• Between the Woods and the Water (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor (1986/87)

Today Show Book Club selection

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association

• Smallbone Deceased (Penguin Crime Fiction) by Michael Gilbert (64)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

• Smallbone Deceased (Penguin Crime Fiction) by Michael Gilbert (80)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1997, No 88)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1997, No 55)

WH Smith Literary Award

• A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor (1978)

Århundrets bibliotek

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass