Awards in your library

Summary: 14 Awards.

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

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke) by John Locke (1684)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald (2006 Edition)
• The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald (2006 edition)
• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (2006/2008 Edition)
• Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald (2006/2008 Edition)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Guardian 1000

• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald (War and travel)

International IMPAC Dublin

• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (Winner, 2002)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald (Fiction, 1998)
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (Science and Technology, 2006)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald (2001)

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

• Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (8)
• Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E.H. Gombrich (29)

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

• Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (28)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press) by Helen Vendler (Criticism, 1983)
• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 2003)

Novembre

• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (1998)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald (Essay, 1999)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (General, 2007)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press) by Helen Vendler (2008)