Awards in your library

Summary: 33 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Science & Technology, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

Bancroft Prize

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (1992)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Borders Original Voices

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2002)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Nonfiction, Gold, 2006)

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

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2002)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (Economics)
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Globalization)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Green Prize for Sustainable Literature

• Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Book, 2001)
• The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein (Book 2nd Prize, 1996)

Heartland Prize

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (Non-Fiction, 1992)

IPPY Bronze

• Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel C. Esty (Environment/Ecology/Nature, 2007)

IPPY Finalist

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Current Events, 2005)

James Beard Foundation Award

• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Writing on Food, 2007)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs (2006)

National Book Award

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Nonfiction, 1979)
• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (General Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2006)

New York Times bestseller

• The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy) by Daniel J. Boorstin (Nonfiction, 1984)
• The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2001)
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs (Nonfiction, 2005)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr (2009)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2009)

Orion Book Award

• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2007, finalist)

Phi Beta Kappa Award

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Science, 1997)

Pulitzer Prize

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Non-Fiction, 1980)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (History, 1992)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (General, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1998)

Salon Book Award

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (2005)
• Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2006)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Non-fiction (5), 2005)

Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize

• The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy) by Daniel J. Boorstin (1986)