Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson (2006 Edition)
• After the quake : stories by Haruki Murakami (2006 Edition)
• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden (2006 Edition)
• Kokoro: a novel. Translated from the Japanese and with a foreword by Edwin McClellan by S�oseki Natsume (2006/2008 Edition)
• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (2008 Edition)
• The twilight years by Sawako Ariyoshi (2008 Edition)
• Deep river by Sh¯usaku End¯o (2008 Edition)
• Lives of girls and women by Alice Munro (2008 Edition)

The 9th edition Best Newcomer Artists Recommended Prize

• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Agatha Award Nominee

• Death in Little Tokyo : a Ken Tanaka mystery by Dale Furutani (First Novel, 1996)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The ink-keeper's apprentice by Allen Say (1979)
• Cranes at dusk by Hisako Matsubara (1985)
• Iron & silk = [T°ieh yü ssu] by Mark Salzman (1987)
• Peeling the onion by Wendy Orr (1998)
• Yell-oh girls! : emerging voices explore culture, identity, and growing up Asian American by Vickie Nam (2002)
• Born confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier (2003)
• Across the nightingale floor by Lian Hearn (2004)

ALA Notable Book for Adult Fiction

• Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates (2006)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Kissing the witch : old tales in new skins by Emma Donoghue ( Short Takes, 2000)
• Pacific crossing by Gary Soto ( This Small World: a Glimpse of Many Cultures, 2003)
• The necessary hunger : a novel by Nina Revoyr ( GLBTQ, 2006)
• Peeling the onion by Wendy Orr ( Bodies, 2010)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (1993)
• Toward amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale (1997)

Alex Award

• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)
• Black, white, and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self by Rebecca Walker (2002)
• Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates (2006)

American Book Award

• Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo (1984)
• Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori (1986)
• Through the arc of the rain forest : a novel by Karen Tei Yamashita (1991)
• Comfort woman by Nora Okja Keller (1998)
• All over creation by Ruth L. Ozeki (2004)

Andre Simon Award

• A dictionary of Japanese food : ingredients & culture by Richard Hosking (1997)

Anthony Award

• Death in Little Tokyo : a Ken Tanaka mystery by Dale Furutani (Best First Novel, 1997)
• No colder place by S. J. Rozan (Best Novel, 1998)

Australian Children's Book of the Year Award

• Peeling the onion by Wendy Orr (Honour Book, Older Readers, 1997)

Barry Award nominee

• Flower net by Lisa See (First Novel, 1998)
• No colder place by S. J. Rozan (Novel, 1998)

BBC's Big Read

• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden (Best loved novel, 2003, No 62)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Born confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier (2003)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Woman : an intimate geography by Natalie Angier ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)
• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Sijie Dai ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• The art of arrow cutting by Stephen Dedman (First Novel, 1997)

Carnegie Medal Shortlist

• Across the nightingale floor by Lian Hearn (2002)

CBCA Honour Book

• The inch boy by Junko Morimoto (Highly Commended Picture Book, 1985)
• Peeling the onion by Wendy Orr (Older Readers, 1996)

Charles W. Follett Award

• All-of-a-kind family. Illus. by Helen John by Sydney Taylor

Christopher Award

• How my parents learned to eat by Ina R. Friedman (Books for Young People, 1985)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Harvest son : planting roots in American soil by David Mas Masumoto (Californiana, Silver, 1998)
• The flower drum song, by C. Y. Lee by C. Y. Lee (Fiction, Silver, 1957)
• A jar of dreams by Yoshiko Uchida (Juvenile, Silver, 1981)

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

• Japanese homes and their surroundings. With illus. by the author. With a new introd. by Clay Lancaster by Edward Sylvester Morse

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

• Across the nightingale floor by Lian Hearn (Jugendjury 2004)

Drama Desk Award

• Wit by Margaret Edson (New Play, 1998-1999)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Flower net by Lisa See (First Novel, 1998)

Evergreen Award, Fiction

• Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates (2005, Nominated)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

Gaylactic Spectrum

• Slow river by Nicola Griffith (Hall of Fame, 2000)

Gaylactic Spectrum Nominee

• The blue place by Nicola Griffith (Novel, 1999)

Guardian 1000

• Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson (Family and self)
• Beauty and sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (Love)
• The passion by Jeanette Winterson (Love)

Gumshoe Award nominee

• Rain fall by Barry Eisler (First Novel, 2003)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Dharma bums by Jack Kerouac

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• All-of-a-kind family. Illus. by Helen John by Sydney Taylor (1952)
• Little Plum. With drawings by Jean Primrose by Rumer Godden (1964)
• How my parents learned to eat by Ina R. Friedman (1985)

Iowa Teen Award Nominee

• Kim/Kimi by Hadley Irwin (1989-1990)

Izumi Kyoka Literary Award

• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (1988)

James Beard Foundation Award Nominee

• How to cook everything : simple recipes for great food by Mark Bittman (2009)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester (Fiction, 2002)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Shortlist

• Kissing the witch : old tales in new skins by Emma Donoghue (1997)

Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

• Through the arc of the rain forest : a novel by Karen Tei Yamashita (1990)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

• The passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987)

Kiriyama Prize

• Audrey Hepburn's neck : a novel by Alan Brown (1996)
• My year of meats by Ruth L. Ozeki (1998)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh (Fiction, 2005)

Lambda Literary Award

• Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (Lesbian Fiction, 1993)
• The blue place by Nicola Griffith (Lesbian Mystery, 1998)
• To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history by Lillian Faderman (Lesbian Studies, 1999)
• Slow river by Nicola Griffith (Science Fiction/Fantasy, 1995)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Cultural revolution : stories by Norman Wong (Gay Men's Fiction, 1994)
• Stir-fry : a novel by Emma Donoghue (Lesbian Fiction, 1994)
• Toward amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale (Lesbian Fiction, 1996)

Libraires du Québec

• Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Sijie Dai (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2001)

Litterature in the La Nuit De Lire

• Across the nightingale floor by Lian Hearn

Locus Nominee

• Slow river by Nicola Griffith (Novel, 1996)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Pangs of love : stories by David Wong Louie (Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1990)
• Don't erase me : stories by Carolyn Ferrell (Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1997)
• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Current Interest, 2001)

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