Awards in your library

Summary: 40 Awards.

'Books to Remember' list

• The corset : a cultural history by Valerie Steele (New York Public Library)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Nights at the circus by Angela Carter (2006/2008 Edition)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sexing the cherry by Jeanette Winterson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (2006/2008 Edition)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela (scholarship/non-fiction)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Story of Art, The - 16th Edition (Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef//Story of Art) by E.H. Gombrich (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Brunelleschi's dome : how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture by Ross King (Humanities, 2004)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (1993)

Alan Paton Award

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela (1995)

Best of the Year, Toronto Globe & Mail

• The corset : a cultural history by Valerie Steele (2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Brunelleschi's dome : how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture by Ross King (Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2001)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Nights at the circus by Angela Carter (1984)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• The Beauty of Fetish by Midori (Art/Photo, 1999)

Guardian 1000

• Wise children by Angela Carter (Family and self)
• Room temperature : a novel by Nicholson Baker (Family and self)
• The passion by Jeanette Winterson (Love)
• Nights at the circus by Angela Carter (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (State of the nation)

International IMPAC Dublin

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Shortlist, 2003)

IPPY Finalist

• The history of Japanese photography by Anne Tucker (Photography, 2004)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Nights at the circus by Angela Carter (Fiction, 1984)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2002)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

• The passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987)

Lambda Literary Award

• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (Lesbian Fiction, 1993)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• The shit of God by Diamanda Galas (Small Press, 1996)

Milia Davenport Publication Award

• The corset : a cultural history by Valerie Steele (2002)

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

• Ways of seeing; a book made by John Berger [and others] by John Berger (37)

Montana NZ Book Awards

• The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King (Reader's Choice Award and Montana Medal for Non Fiction, 2001)

National Book Award

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2001)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• On photography by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 1977)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Lee Miller : A Life by Carolyn Burke (Biography, 2005)
• Regarding the pain of others by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 2003)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2001)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• On photography by Susan Sontag (1977)
• Black Venus by Angela Carter (1986)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)

New York Times bestseller

• The volcano lover : a romance by Susan Sontag (Fiction, 1992)
• Vox : a novel by Nicholson Baker (Fiction, 1992)
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2001)
• Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper (Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Lee Miller : A Life by Carolyn Burke (Non-Fiction, 2006)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Wise children by Angela Carter (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)

Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2007, No 12)

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2002)

Publishing Triangle

• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (Female, 1994)

Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels

• The passion by Jeanette Winterson

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2002)

Salon Book Award

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2001)

SWR-Bestenliste

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2002)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction (5), 2001)
• A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker (Fiction (5), 2003)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela (1997, No 90)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King (90)

World Fantasy Award Nominee

• Black Venus by Angela Carter (Anthology / Collection, 1986)