Awards in your library

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

The Odyssey (8th – early 7th century BCE)
The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) by Robert Fitzgerald (19 BCE)
The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides (1190)
Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
Montaigne: Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (1943)
The structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Sinclair Lewis (2006/2008 Edition)
The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
CAT'S CRADLE by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2006/2008 Edition)
Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Babbitt (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Sinclair Lewis (2006/2008 Edition)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008 Edition)
Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift (2006/2008 Edition)
Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright (2006/2008 Edition)
Arcadia : A Play by Tom Stoppard (2006/2008 Edition)
Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2006/2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 467, Age 8 and over)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (2)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright (69)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright (71)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (2003)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Odyssey (Poetry, 1999)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions) by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Non-fiction, 1999)
Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright (Fiction, 1999)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
A Sand County Almanac : And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold (Science & Technology, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman ( Humor, 2001)
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore ( If It Weren’t For Them: Heroes, 2004)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan (1976)

Allan Nevins Prize

Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina (Norton Library, N730) by Steven A. Channing (1969)

American Book Award

Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (1996)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Bad Sex in Fiction Award

I Am Charlotte Simmons : A Novel by Tom Wolfe (2004)

Bancroft Prize

BBC's Big Read

The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 25)

Best Books 2006 Awards Finalist (Lombardo, Unabridged Audio) Parmenides Publishing

The Odyssey

BILBY

The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 1997)

Bolton-Johnson Prize

Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America by Ann Twinam (honorable mention, 2000)

Book Sense Book of the Year

Life of Pi by Yann Martel ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore ( Paperback Honor Book, 2004)

Booker Prize

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)

Borges' A Personal Library

Canada Reads Nominee

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

The idea of a university by John Henry Newman, Cardinal (Literary Classics)
Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Combat des livres

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (selection, 2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Europe Central by William Vollmann (Fiction, Gold, 2005)
Been in the Storm So Long : The Aftermath of Slavery (Vintage) by Leon F. Litwack (Nonfiction, Silver, 1979)

The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (merit in the realm of books, Women's National Book Association)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

Rivers of Empire : Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West by Donald Worster

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

The Future of History : Interviews with David Barsamian by Howard Zinn (Nonfiction, 2000)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Francis Parkman Prize

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 13) by Mark Juergensmeyer (2003)

Guardian 1000

Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright (Crime)
SIRENS OF TITAN by Kurt Vonnegut (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Mark Twain (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Herland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (State of the nation)
Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Sinclair Lewis (State of the nation)
Babbitt (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Sinclair Lewis (State of the nation)
Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (War and travel)
Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift (War and travel)

Guardian First Book Award

Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

The Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1938)

Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)

Hugo Nominee

SIRENS OF TITAN by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel, 1960)
CAT'S CRADLE by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel, 1964)

Idaho Book Award

Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.) by Mark Fiege (1999)

International and US Councils of Woman Citation

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

International IMPAC Dublin

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Shortlist, 2007)

Isaak Walton League Annual Founders Award

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

John Burroughs Medal

A Sand County Almanac : And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold (1977)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

The vagina monologues by Eve Ensler (Drama, 1998)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (18)
Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright (50)

Libraires du Québec

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2007)

Lillian Smith Award

The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (1974)

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

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (5)
A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippman (67)
The structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (70)

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

The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (16)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (61)

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