Awards in your library

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The Road by Cormac Mccarthy (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

Ambassador Book Award

Underworld by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1998)

American Book Award

Underworld by Don DeLillo (1998)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (1939)
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene (1940)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion

Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) by Daniel Boyarin (2006, Historical Studies)

Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1986)

Bancarella

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)

BBC's Big Read

Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)

Booker Prize

The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (1983)

Booker Prize Longlist

Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2003)
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (2005)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (2006)

Booker Prize Shortlist

The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie (1988)

Carl Sandburg Award

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition) by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlist

Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (Africa, Best Book, 2006)

Edgar Award Nominee

The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (Power)

Francis Parkman Prize

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1975)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras by Diana L. Eck (1995)

Guardian 1000

FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (Comedy)
The Castle by Franz Kafka (Comedy)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Crime)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon (Crime)
Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (Family and self)
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene (Family and self)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
The Road by Cormac Mccarthy (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (State of the nation)
White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo (State of the nation)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by J. M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)

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

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (2009)

H. L. Mencken Award

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1983)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Hawthornden Prize

The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene (1941)
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1974)

Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History

Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton (AHA, 2000)

International IMPAC Dublin

Underworld by Don DeLillo (Shortlist, 1999)
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee (Shortlist, 2007)

Irish Book Award Nominee

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

James Russell Lowell Prize

Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series) by Fredric Jameson (1990)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by J. M. Coetzee (Fiction, 1980)
The Road by Cormac Mccarthy (Fiction, 2006)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (2)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (3)
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (10)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (19)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (20)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by J. M. Coetzee (92)

Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work

The Castle by Franz Kafka (1998)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 2002)

Massachusetts Book Award

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Fiction, 2007)

Miles Franklin Award Shortlist

Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2004)

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

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (92)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (The Board's List, 1)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (The Board's List, 45)
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (The Board's List, 77)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (The Reader's List, 21)
The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie (The Reader's List, 100)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Quarterfinalist, 2007)

Médicis

The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Étranger, 1982)

National Book Award

Goodbye, Columbus (Essential.penguin) by Philip Roth (Fiction, 1960)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1974)
White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1985)
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Nonfiction, 2002)

National Book Award finalist

Weimar culture : the outsider as insider by Peter Gay (Arts and Letters, 1969)
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1983)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1997)
The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio (Galaxy Books) by Dante Alighieri (Translation, 1983)

National Book Award Nomination

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (1978)

National Book Critics Circle Award

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 1990)
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Criticism, 1999)
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (General Nonfiction, 1982)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy (2006)
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler (Criticism, 1997)
White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1985)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1997)

National Jewish Book Award

Goodbye, Columbus (Essential.penguin) by Philip Roth (1960)

Nebula Nominee

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Novel, 1973)

New York City Book Award

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City) by Edwin G. Burrows (Book of the Year, 1998)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (1978)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by J. M. Coetzee (1982)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (1983)
The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (1984)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1986)
The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie (1989)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
The First World War by John Keegan (1999)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (2006)

New York Times bestseller

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1973)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Fiction, 1983)
The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1989)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1997)
Everyman by Philip Roth (Fiction, 2006)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Fiction, 2006)
The Second World War by John Keegan (Nonfiction, 1990)
The First World War by John Keegan (Nonfiction, 1999)

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