Awards in your library

Summary: 17 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Science & Technology, 2009)

Alex Award

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (Biography/Autobiography, 2006)

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)
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)

Borders Original Voices

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

Duff Cooper Prize

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (2008)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (2008)

IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

• Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid (Current Interest, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (Biography, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Benjamin Franklin. by EDMUND S. MORGAN (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid (General Nonfiction, 2005)

New York Times bestseller

• Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child (Fiction, 2009)
• Benjamin Franklin. by EDMUND S. MORGAN (Nonfiction, 2002)
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Non-Fiction, 2007)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin (2009)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (2009)
• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr (2009)
• Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen (2009)
• Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child (2009)
• Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne (2009)
• Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid (2009)
• City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte (2009)
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (2009)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2009)
• Benjamin Franklin. by EDMUND S. MORGAN (2009)
• God: A Biography by Jack Miles (2009)
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry (2009)
• Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes (2009)
• Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey (2009)

Pulitzer Prize

• God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Biography or Autobiography, 1996)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (Biography or Autobiography, 2006)

Ridenhour Book Prize

• Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid (2006)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (Non-fiction (1), 2005)