Awards in your library

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*nominated only* [Canadian] Governor General's Award.

• Swann by Carol Shields

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

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One by F Nietzsche (1883-1885)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• The Breast by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis (2006 Edition)
• Shikasta, Recolonised Planet 5. by Doris. Lessing (2006 Edition)
• A Scots Quair A trilogy including Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2006 Edition)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• Unless: A Novel (P.S.) by Carol Shields (2006 Edition)
• Out of Africa by Blixen Karen (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Woman in White by WIlkie Collins (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (2006/2008 Edition)
• The awakening by Kate Chopin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (2006/2008 Edition)
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (2006/2008 Edition)
• Group Portrait With Lady by Heinrich Boll (2006/2008 Edition)
• George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (2006/2008 Edition)
• THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nana by Emile Zola (2006/2008 Edition)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Vikram Seth (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse (Penguin Modern Classic) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2006/2008 Edition)
• OLD MAN AND THE SEA by ERNEST HEMINGWAY (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Who do you think you are? by Alice Munro (2008 Edition)
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2008 Edition)
• Lives of Girls and Women: A Novel by Alice Munro (2008 Edition)
• The Diviners (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Margaret Laurence (2008 edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2009, No 981, Age 12 and over)
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (2009, Ages 8↑)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)

Agatha Award Nominee

• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King (Novel, 1994)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (37)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (83)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (37)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (84)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Women of Wonder V41 by Pamela Sargent (1975)
• Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem (1983)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1986)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King (1995)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• The Girls by lori larsens (2007)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The awakening by Kate Chopin (Fiction, 1999)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1999)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (Fiction, 1999)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Social Sciences, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman ( Going Alternative, 1997)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King (Adult Mysteries for Teens, 1998)
• Shane by Jack Schaefer ( Western, 2001)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (What Ails you?, 2006)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1999)

Alex Award

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)

American Book Award

• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch (1998)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley (1997)
• Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses by Michael A. Dirr (1997)
• The encyclopedia of ornamental grasses : how to grow and use over 250 beautiful and versatile plants by John Greenlee (1997)
• Second nature : a gardener's education by Michael Pollan (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• The color encyclopedia of ornamental grasses : sedges, rushes, restios, cat-tails, and selected bamboos by Rick Darke (2000)
• The American woodland garden : capturing the spirit of the deciduous forest by Rick Darke (2003)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• OLD MAN AND THE SEA by ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1952)
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1979)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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

Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Writing

• Swann by Carol Shields (1988)

Aurora Award Shortlist

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

Bancarella

• OLD MAN AND THE SEA by ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1953)

Bay Area Reviewers Award

• Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (Fiction)

BBC's Big Read

• A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Vikram Seth (Best loved novel, 2003, No 55)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• The Woman in White by WIlkie Collins (Best loved novel, 2003, No 77)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 111)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Best loved novel, 2003, No 131)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Best loved novel, 2003, No 164)
• OLD MAN AND THE SEA by ERNEST HEMINGWAY (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2001)
• The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2006)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2004)

Booker Prize

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992)
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2000)

Booker Prize Longlist

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing (1971)
• Who do you think you are? by Alice Munro (1980)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
• THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields (1993)
• Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (1999)
• Unless: A Novel (P.S.) by Carol Shields (2002)

Books in Canada First Novel Award

• Childhood by Andre Alexis (1998)

Books in Canada First Novel Award Shortlist

• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy (1995)
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (1996)

Borders Original Voices

• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss (2006)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

British Book Award

• Writing Home by Alan Bennett (Book of the Year, 1995)

CAA Award

• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1994)
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fiction, 1997)

Canada Australia Prize

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Canada Reads

• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (Winner, 2002)
• A Complicated Kindness (A Novel) by Miriam Toews (Winner, 2006)
• The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill (Winner, 2009)

Canada Reads Nominee

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (2002)
• The love of a good woman : stories by Alice Munro (2004)
• Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen (2005)

Carnegie Medal

• The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield (1970)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• The Problem of Pain by Lewis C.S. (Spiritual Classics)

CBA Libris Award

• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fiction Book of the Year, 1998)
• The love of a good woman : stories by Alice Munro (Fiction Book of the Year, 1999)
• A Complicated Kindness (A Novel) by Miriam Toews (Fiction Book of the Year, 2005)
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2004)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• There is a season : a memoir in a garden by Patrick Lane (2005)

City of Toronto Book Award

• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (1988)

CLA Young Adult Book of the Year

• A Complicated Kindness (A Novel) by Miriam Toews (2005)

Combat des livres

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

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Vikram Seth (Best Book, 1994)
• The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill (Best Book, Canada and Caribbean, 2008)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 1987)
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 1994)
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Best First Book, 1997)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Best First Book, 2004)

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

• Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley

CWA

• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (Ellis Peters Historical Award, 2007)

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

• The Plague by Albert Camus
• To the Lighthouse (Penguin Modern Classic) by Virginia Woolf

Edward Lewis Wallant Award

• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss (2005)

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

• Unless: A Novel (P.S.) by Carol Shields (2003)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)

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