Awards in your library

Summary: 15 Awards.

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama ( Change Your World, 2010)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Christian Booksellers Association

• The purpose-driven life : what on earth am I here for? by Richard Warren (100 Christian Books That Changed the Twentieth Century)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama (2009, shortlist)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Gladys M. Kammerer Award

• Affirmative advocacy : race, class, and gender in interest group politics by Dara Z. Strolovitch (2008)

Jolt Awards

• Beautiful code by Andrew Oram (2007)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time by Jeffrey Sachs (2006)

New York Times bestseller

• A history of God : the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations by Al. Franken (Nonfiction, 1996)
• The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time by Jeffrey Sachs (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama (Nonfiction, 2006)
• I am America (and so can you!) by Stephen Colbert (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The shadow factory : the ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on America by James Bamford (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• America at the crossroads : democracy, power, and the neoconservative legacy by Francis Fukuyama (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Orwell Prize shortlist

• Reappraisals : reflections on the forgotten twentieth century by Tony Judt (2009)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Science Writing Award

• How the laser happened : adventures of a scientist by Charles H. Townes (Scientist, 2000)

Stephen T. Colbert Award for The Literary Excellence

• I am America (and so can you!) by Stephen Colbert (2007)

Warwick Prize for Writing

• The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism by Naomi Klein (2009, winner)