Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Pastoralia by George Saunders (2006 Edition)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories by Pedro Juan Gutierrez (2008 Edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories by David Foster Wallace (1997)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2004)

ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens

• Demo: The Collected Edition by Brian Wood (2007)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Drama, 1999)
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. Leroy (2002)

Alex Award

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2004)

Ambassador Book Award

• Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
• The Collected Stories (FSG Classics) by Grace Paley (Fiction, 1995)
• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel (Fiction, 2007)

American Book Award

• Dogeaters (Contemporary American Fiction) by Jessica Hagedorn (1991)

Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2001)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2005)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• Smoke & Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman (Collection, 1998)
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (Collection, 2005)
• The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford (Collection, 2006)
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (Non-Fiction, 2001)

British Book Award

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Literary Fiction Award Shortlist, 2005)

British Fantasy Award Nominee

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2005)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Literary Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2000)
• Sons and Other Flammable Objects: A Novel by Porochista Khakpour (First Fiction, Silver, 2007)

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

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud

CWA

• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (Gold Dagger, 2000)

CWA Gold Dagger

• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (2000)

Ditmar Award

• The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois (Collected Work, 2008)

Eisner Award

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Best Comics-Related Book, 1994)
• Kingdom Come (DC Comics Hardcover) by Mark Waid (Best Finite Series/Limited Series, 1997)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Best Graphic Album, 1988)

Esquire Book of the Year

• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (1999)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack by Neal Pollack (Fiction, 2001)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

• No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July (2007)
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2001)

Geffen Award

• Smoke & Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman (Best Translated Fantasy Book, 2004)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Best Translated Fantasy Book, 2007)

Gigamesh

• Dangerous Visions : The 35th Anniversary Edition by Harlan Ellison (Ciencia ficción, Antología, 1984)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock (Fiction, 2008)

Guardian 1000

• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Crime)
• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (Crime)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (War and travel)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)

Guardian First Book Award

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Shortlist, 2004)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Harvey Award

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (American Edition of Foreign Material, 2004)
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Graphic Album of Original Work, 1994)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Graphic Album, 1988)
• BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM (BATMAN) by DAVE MCKEAN GRANT MORRISON (Special Award for Excellence in Presentation, 1990)

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

• Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason (1982)

Hugo

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Novel, 2005)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Other Forms, 1988)
• How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card (Related Book, 1991)
• Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop by Kate Wilhelm (Related Book, 2006)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (Related Book, 2007)

The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award

• Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1995)

The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award Finalist

• Superpowers: A Novel by David J. Schwartz (2009)

International Horror Guild Nominee

• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (Collection, 2005)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

• Half Life: A Novel by Shelley Jackson (2006)
• The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (2006)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (Special Recognition, 2006)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honor List

• Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing by Delia Sherman (2008)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Shortlist

• Black Glass: Short Fictions by Karen Jay Fowler (1998)
• Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists by Jonathan Carroll (2003)
• The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories by Shelley Jackson (2003)
• Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender (2006)
• Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (Retrospective)
• Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller (Retrospective)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• American Son: A Novel by Brian Ascalon Roley (Fiction, 2001)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. Leroy (Gay Men's Fiction, 2001)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (3)
• Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (25)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver (62)

Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award

• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (1994)

Locus

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror) by Kelly Link (Anthology, 2006)
• The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois (Anthology, 2008)
• Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card by Orson Scott Card (Collection, 1991)
• Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison (Collection, 1998)
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Collection, 2003)
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (Collection, 2006)
• Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (First Novel, 1995)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (First Novel, 2005)
• Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop by Kate Wilhelm (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Nonfiction/Related/Reference, 1988)

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