Awards in your library

Summary: 20 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) by Gene Roberts (History & Cultures, 2009)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Gold medal, 2008)

Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism

• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised by Bill Kovach

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch by Maud Lavin (1994)
• Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (3 volumes) (Yale University Art Gallery) by Ani Boyajian (2007)

Goldsmith Book Prize

• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised by Bill Kovach (Trade, 2002)
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) by Gene Roberts (Trade, 2007)

Idaho Book Award

• At Nature's Edge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Artist Studio by Henry Whiting (2007)

IPPY Bronze

• London: An Architectural History by Anthony Sutcliffe (Architecture, 2007)

Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies

• Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Martin J. Powers (2008, pre-1900)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2008)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Biography, 2006)

Michigan Notable Books

• Connecting the dots : Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project (2008)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Biography, 2007)

New York Times bestseller

• Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Non-Fiction, 2007)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) by Gene Roberts (2006)

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award finalist

• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) by Gene Roberts (2007)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) by Gene Roberts (History, 2007)

Salon Book Award

• Buying in : the secret dialogue between what we buy and who we are by Rob Walker (2008)

Sigma Delta Chi Award for Research in Journalism

• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised by Bill Kovach

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Non-fiction (2), 2007)