Awards in your library

Summary: 44 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Proceß by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Das Foucaultsche Pendel by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (11)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Kuckucksei. Die Jagd auf die deutschen Hacker, die das Pentagon knackten. by Clifford Stoll (1991)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit by Stephen W. Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Der Tipping Point. Wie kleine Dinge Großes bewirken können by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

And/Or Book Award

• Total digital by Nicholas Negroponte (Moving Image, 1995)

Bancarella

• Das Foucaultsche Pendel by Umberto Eco (1989)

BBC's Big Read

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (Best loved novel, 2003, No 30)
• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics, deutsche Ausgabe by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• Die Welt ist flach. Eine kurze Geschichte des 21. Jahrhunderts by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Der Tipping Point. Wie kleine Dinge Großes bewirken können by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Guardian 1000

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Das Foucaultsche Pendel by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Der Proceß by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll
• Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit by Stephen W. Hawking

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen by Viktor E. Frankl

IPPY Finalist

• Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman (Computer/Internet, 2003)

Kurt Maschler Award

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (1999, Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury for the Candlewick Press)

LOST Book Club

• Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit by Stephen W. Hawking

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

• Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead (23)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)

Médicis

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (Étranger, 1982)

National Book Award

• Gödel, Escher, Bach, ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Award finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1987)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Gödel, Escher, Bach, ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Nonfiction, 1979)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Gödel, Escher, Bach, ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (1983)
• Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte by Oliver Sacks (1986)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987)
• Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit by Stephen W. Hawking (1988)
• Ich fühle, also bin ich. Die Entschlüsselung des Bewusstseins. by Antonio R. Damasio (1999)
• Onkel Wolfram. Erinnerungen by Oliver Sacks (2001)

New York Times bestseller

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (Fiction, 1983)
• Spiele der Erwachsenen by Eric Berne (General, 1965)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Digitales Business. Wettbewerb im Informationszeitalter by Bill Gates (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Der Tipping Point. Wie kleine Dinge Großes bewirken können by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Der Proceß by Franz Kafka

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (2003)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (1984)
• Das Foucaultsche Pendel by Umberto Eco (1990)

Pulitzer Prize

• Gödel, Escher, Bach, ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Non-Fiction, 1980)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General Non-Fiction, 1988)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics, deutsche Ausgabe by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Computerdenken by Roger Penrose (General, 1990)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit by Stephen W. Hawking (General, 1989)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General, 1989)

Strega

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (1981)

SWR-Bestenliste

• Der Proceß by Franz Kafka (1997)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Der Tipping Point. Wie kleine Dinge Großes bewirken können by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (13)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (23)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Der Proceß by Franz Kafka (22)
• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (1997, No 42)
• Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit by Stephen W. Hawking (1997, No 79)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (1997, No 9)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (2007, No 21)

ZDF Das große Lesen - Die Lieblingsbücher der Deutschen

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (18)

ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll

Århundrets bibliotek

• Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco
• Der Proceß by Franz Kafka (1)