Awards in your library

Summary: 46 Awards.

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

• DE LOF DER ZOTHEID; vert. door J.B. Kan; uitg. en van korte ophelderingen voorzien door A.H. Kan by D. Erasmus (1509)
• Pragmatism by William James (1908)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• De immoralist by André Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (2006/2008 Edition)
• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (2006/2008 Edition)
• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2008 edition)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2005)

BBC's Big Read

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 76)

Boekenleeuw

• Het is de liefde die we niet begrijpen by Bart Moeyaert (België)

Booker Prize

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• De immoralist by André Gide
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus

Edgar Award

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (Fact Crime, 1966)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Guardian 1000

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Crime)
• De immoralist by André Gide (Family and self)
• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (State of the nation)
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (State of the nation)

Guardian First Book Award

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2008)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2009)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus

IPPY

• The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters by Peter Block (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2002)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( Honorable Mention)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Gay Men's Fiction, 2004)

Libraires du Québec

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 1994)

Libris Literatuur Prijs

• Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol by Dimitri Verhulst (2009)

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

• De open samenleving en haar vijanden (64)
• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (96)

National Book Award finalist

• The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt (Nonfiction, 1959)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (Criticism, 2007)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Fiction, 2004)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2007)

New York Times bestseller

• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (Fiction, 1948)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Fiction, 1992)
• art of travel by alain de botton (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey (Paperback Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 1990)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• A Secular Age by Charles Taylor (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2009)
• Leaves of grass / Grasbladen by W. Whitman (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Leaves of grass / Grasbladen by W. Whitman (2009, No. 53)
• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (2009, No. 63)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Leaves of grass / Grasbladen by W. Whitman

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Leaves of grass / Grasbladen by W. Whitman (2006)

NS Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek

• Het zijn net mensen : beelden uit het Midden-Oosten (2007)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (2003)

Orange Prize Shortlist

• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (2003)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (General Nonfiction, 2008)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (53)

Salon Book Award

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2008)

Time Out magazine Book of the Year

• And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (1990)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (Non-fiction (5), 2007)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (54)

Warwick Prize for Writing

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2009, shortlist)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (2007, No 8)

WH Smith Literary Award

• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (2003)

Whitbread Shortlist

• Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Novel, 2004)

Århundrets bibliotek

• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus