Awards in your library

Summary: 41 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (Social Sciences, 2009)

Alex Award

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2004)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Cutting for Stone: A novel by Abraham Verghese (#16)

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant (Adult Fiction Winner, 2001)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)
• Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Adult Fiction, 2008)

Booker Prize

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)
• The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga (2008)

Booker Prize Longlist

• How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (2001)

British Book Award

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Best Read of the Year, 2008)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

Canada Reads Nominee

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)

CBA Libris Award

• Clara Callan: A Novel by Richard B. Wright (Fiction Book of the Year, 2002)

Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award

• Peony in Love: A Novel by Lisa See (2008)

Combat des livres

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (selection, 2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Fiction, Silver, 2005)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ( co-recipient)

Florida Teens Read

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2008-2009)

Galaxy British Book Award

• Der Cellist von Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (2009, shortlist)
• The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga (2009, shortlist)

Giller

• Clara Callan: A Novel by Richard B. Wright (2001)

Giller Prize Longlist

• Der Cellist von Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (2008)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Clara Callan: A Novel by Richard B. Wright (Fiction, 2001)

Guardian 1000

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (War and travel)

Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)

International best-seller

• Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Kiriyama Prize

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (Nonfiction, 2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Awards’ Art Seidenbaum Prize for first fiction

• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (1992)

New York Times bestseller

• Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.) by Wally Lamb (Fiction, 1998)
• Gap Creek : The Story Of A Marriage (Oprah's Book Club) by Robert Morgan (Fiction, 2000)
• How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (Fiction, 2001)
• The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (Fiction, 2001)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Fiction, 2002)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Fiction, 2003)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Fiction, 2007)
• Peony in Love: A Novel by Lisa See (Fiction, 2007)
• The Hour I First Believed: A Novel by Wally Lamb (Fiction, 2008)
• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (Fiction, 2009)
• Home Safe: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg (Fiction, 2009)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (Paperback Fiction, 1996)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Notable Book of the Year

• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (People)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (1996)
• I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.) by Wally Lamb (1999)
• Gap Creek : The Story Of A Marriage (Oprah's Book Club) by Robert Morgan (2000)

Orange Prize Longlist

• The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (2001)

Prix du grand public Salon du livre de Montréal / La Presse

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)

Publishers Weekly's Best Books: 2009

• Cutting for Stone: A novel by Abraham Verghese (Fiction)

Reading Across Rhode Island

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2005)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Fiction (3), 2007)

Trillium Award

• Clara Callan: A Novel by Richard B. Wright (English, 2001)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2007, No 5)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2007, No 18)

WH Smith Award for Fiction

• How to Be Good by Nick Hornby

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (7)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (13)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (25)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (26)
• I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.) by Wally Lamb (61)
• The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant (88)

ZDF Das große Lesen - Die Lieblingsbücher der Deutschen

• Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Rank 10)