Awards in your library

Summary: 46 Awards.

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

• The Way of Life Lao Tzu Wisdom of Ancient China by Lao (translated By R.B. Blakney) Tsu (3rd century BCE)
• Three Treatises by Martin Luther (1520)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set) by John Calvin (1536)
• The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to come Under the similitude of a dream by John Bunyan (1684)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to come Under the similitude of a dream by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• Life Of Christ by Giovanni Papini (2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Are You Running with Me, Jesus? by Malcolm Boyd (1966)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen (History, 2004)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Awash in a sea of faith : Christianizing the American people by Jon Butler (1990)

Ambassador Book Award

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Biography/Autobiography, 1989)
• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (American Studies, 2002)

Bampton Lectures

• Glass of Vision: Bampton Lectures for 1948 by Austin Farrer (1948)
• Early Christian Interpretations of History: Bampton Lectures, 1952 by Robert Leslie Pollington Milburn (1952)
• History Sacred and Profane by Alan Richardson (1962)

Bancroft Prize

• Origins of the new South, 1877-1913 by C. Vann Woodward (1952)
• THE AMERICANS THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstein (1959)
• The ideological origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968)
• Roll, Jordan, roll : the world the slaves made by Eugene D. Genovese (1975)

Borges' A Personal Library

• THE SONG OF GOD: BHAGAVAD-GITA by Translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Brewer Prize

• The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values by Jr. James Oscar Farmer

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• An essay on the development of Christian doctrine by John Henry Newman (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• Catechism of the Catholic Church by Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• Apologia pro vita sua by John Henry Newman (Holy Men and Women)
• The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton (Holy Men and Women)
• The pocket Aquinas; selections from the writings of St. Thomas by Aquinas Thomas, Saint (Spiritual Classics)
• Three to Get Married - an Inspiring Guide to Love and Marriage by Fulton J. Sheen (Spiritual Reading)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture) by Peter Gorday (Biblical Studies, 2001)
• For the soul of the people : Prostestant [sic] protest against Hitler by Victoria Barnett (Biography and History, No. 3, 1994, Critics' Choice, tie)
• America against itself : moral vision and the public order by Richard John Neuhaus (Contemporary Issues, No. 1, 1993, Critics' Choice)
• Saint Augustine: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives) by Garry Wills (History/Biography, 2000)
• After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s by Robert Wuthnow (No. 2, 1999)
• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, New Testament II: Mark by Thomas C. Oden (No. 6, 1999)
• Turning points : decisive moments in the history of Christianity by Mark A. Noll (No. 8, 1998)
• A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada by Mark A. Noll (No. 9, 1993, Readers' Choice)
• The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross (No. 9, 1998, tie)
• Romans (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture) by Gerald Bray (No. 9, 1999, tie)
• The Christian theology reader by Alister E. McGrath (No. 18, 1996, tie)
• The company of preachers : wisdom on preaching, Augustine to the present by Richard Lischer (The Church/Pastoral Leadership, 2003)
• 20th Century Theology: God & the World in a Transitional Age by Stanley J. Grenz (Theology/Biblical Studies, No. 1, 1993, Critics' Choice)
• The story of Christian theology : twenty centuries of tradition & reform by Roger E. Olson (Theology/Ethics, 2000)

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

• The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton
• LIFE AGAINST DEATH The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

• Eerdmans' Handbook to the History of Christianity by Tim Dowley (Bible Study/Theology, 1978)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Leadership)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Americans the National Experience by Daniel Boorstin (1966)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Letters and papers from prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The idea of the holy; an inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational by Rudolf Otto
• The nature and destiny of man; a Christian interpretation by Reinhold Niebuhr
• Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr
• The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (2002)

James F. Sulzby Book Award

• A fire you can't put out : the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth by Andrew Michael Manis (2001)

John Gilmary Shea Prize

• American Catholicism (The Chicago History of American Civilization) by John Tracy Ellis (1956)

Lilla M. Hawes Award

• A power for good : the history of Trinity Parish, Columbus, Georgia by Lynn Willoughby (1999)

Lillian Smith Award

• The strange career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (1974)
• Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality by Richard Kluger (1977)
• Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama by Charles Eagles (1993)
• A fire you can't put out : the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth by Andrew Michael Manis (2000)

Lincoln Prize

• Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo (2000)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• The Holy Bible

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Current Interest, 1989)

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

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (2)
• The nature and destiny of man; a Christian interpretation by Reinhold Niebuhr (18)
• Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (36)
• Religion and the rise of capitalism : a historical study by R. H. Tawney (66)
• The strange career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (70)
• Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics) by Jr. King, Dr. Martin Luther (78)
• The strange death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield (82)

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

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (43)
• Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson (49)

National Book Award

• Righteous empire; the Protestant experience in America by Martin E. Marty (Philosophy and Religion, 1972)
• A religious history of the American people by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Philosophy and Religion, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

• The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe by Steven Ozment (History (Hardcover), 1981)
• The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett (Nonfiction, 1950)
• The age of reform; from Bryan to F. D. R by Richard Hofstadter (Nonfiction, 1956)
• THE AMERICANS THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstein (Nonfiction, 1959)
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Nonfiction, 1989)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (General Nonfiction, 1988)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality by Richard Kluger (General Nonfiction, 1976)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Luther by John Osborne (Play, 1963-1964)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Roll, Jordan, roll : the world the slaves made by Eugene D. Genovese (1974)
• Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson (1983)
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (1988)

New York Times bestseller

• The Left Hand of God: Essays on Discipleship and Patriotism (Confrontation books) by William E. Barrett (Fiction, 1951)
• The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon (Fiction, 1991)
• Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (General, 1945)
• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee (General, 1947)
• The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett (General, 1949)
• The Man from Nazareth as His Contemporaries Saw Him by Harry Emerson Fosdick (General, 1949)
• The Greatest Story Every Told: A Tale of the Greatest Life Ever Lived by Fulton Oursler (General, 1949)
• The New Testament in modern English by J. B. Phillips (General, 1958)
• The fire next time by James Baldwin (General, 1963)
• History Of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 2002)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (2009, No. 27)
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (2009, No. 89)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to come Under the similitude of a dream by John Bunyan (2003)

Paddock Lectures

• The Athanasian Creed by J.N.D. Kelly (1962-1963)
• Adventure for God (The Bishop Paddock lectures) by Charles Henry Brent (~1905)

Pulitzer Prize

• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (Biography or Autobiography, 1987)
• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (General Non-Fiction, 2002)
• The Atlantic migration, 1607-1860; a history of the continuing settlement of the United States by Marcus Lee Hansen (History, 1941)
• Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (History, 1946)
• The age of reform; from Bryan to F. D. R by Richard Hofstadter (History, 1956)
• The ideological origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (History, 1968)
• The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (History, 1974)
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (History, 1989)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (History, 1987)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (Winner, 1987)
• The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton (Winner, 1991)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Non-fiction (3), 2001)

Tony Award

• Luther by John Osborne (Play, 1964)

Watumull Prize

• The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer (1951)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Holy Bible (15)

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award

• Southern politics in State and Nation by V. O. Key (1949)