Awards in your library

Summary: 34 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (53)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (60)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ( Humor, 2001)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

BBC's Big Read

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Best loved novel, 2003, No 04)
• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 185)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Personal finance for dummies by Eric Tyson (Business, 2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Ditmar Award

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (International Fiction, 1980)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

Guardian 1000

• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (Crime)
• Moviegoer by Percy Walker (Family and self)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• Siddartha by Hermann Hesse

Lambda Literary Award

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Humor, 2004)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (76)

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

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (64)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Moviegoer by Percy Walker (The Board's List, 60)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The Reader's List, 51)

National Book Award

• Moviegoer by Percy Walker (Fiction, 1962)

New York Times bestseller

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2007)
• Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) by Douglas Adams (Fiction, 1982)
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams (Fiction, 1984)
• Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Trilogy, No 5) by Douglas Adams (Fiction, 1992)
• Roses Are Red (Alex Cross Novels) by James Patterson (Fiction, 2000)
• Violets Are Blue by James Patterson (Fiction, 2001)
• Liar's poker : rising through the wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis (Nonfiction, 1989)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Nonfiction, 2001)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Blink : the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (72)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (General, 2004)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Tanizaki Prize

• Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel by Haruki Murakami (1985)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (2008)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Non-fiction (4), 2004)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

• Moviegoer by Percy Walker

Tähtivaeltaja: 1900-luvun tieteiskirjallisuuden TOP-50

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (2000)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1997, No 24)
• American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (1997, No 77)

Whitcoulls top 100

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2008, #77)