Awards in your library

Summary: 32 Awards.

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

• Philosophical investigations : the German text with a revised English translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Rainbow List

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (Starred, Young Adult Fiction, 2008)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2005)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2004)

Booklist Top of the List: Best of Editors' Choice

• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2007)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Ludwig Wittgenstein : the duty of genius by Ray Monk (1991)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (2002)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Heartland Prize

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Non-Fiction, 2001)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (2007)

Hugo Nominee

• The algebraist by Iain Banks (Novel, 2005)

International IMPAC Dublin

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (Winner, 2006)

Lambda Literary Award

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (Gay Men's Fiction, 2004)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Lush life : a biography of Billy Strayhorn by David. Hajdu (Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography, 1996)

Locus Recommended Reading

• The algebraist by Iain Banks (Science Fiction Novel, 2004)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (Fiction, 2004)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Lush life : a biography of Billy Strayhorn by David. Hajdu (Biography/Autobiography, 1996)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (2001)
• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2004)

New York Times bestseller

• Consilience: the unity of knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Blink : the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo (Fiction & Poetry, 2007)
• Come parlare di un libro senza averlo mai letto by Pierre Bayard (Non-Fiction, 2007)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Come parlare di un libro senza averlo mai letto by Pierre Bayard (2007)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (Novel, 2005)

Publishing Triangle

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (Male, 2008)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (History, 2002)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Consilience: the unity of knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (General, 1999)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (Fiction (4), 2004)

Vodafone Crossword Book Award Shortlist

• Home products by Amitava Kumar (English Fiction, 2007)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• Shantaram : a novel by Gregory David Roberts (37)