Awards in your library

Summary: 31 Awards.

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

• Cybernetics or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Second Edition by Norbert Wiener (1948)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Way Things Work by David Macaulay (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)

Ambassador Book Award

• Story of English by Robert McCrum (Special Citation, 1987)

And/Or Book Award

• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte (Moving Image, 1995)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Non-Fiction, 1989)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski (Nonfiction, Gold, 1974)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R Tufte (1991)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Way Things Work by David Macaulay (1989)

James Beard Foundation Award Nominee

• How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman (2009)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (Science and Technology, 1997)

LOST Book Club

• Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking

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

• Elements of Style by William Jr Strunk (21)
• Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P Feynman (88)

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

• Elements of Style by William Jr Strunk (75)

National Book Award

• Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (General Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1982)

National Book Award finalist

• Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1987)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick (1987)
• Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking (1988)

New York Times bestseller

• Elements of Style by William Jr Strunk (General, 1959)
• Joy of Sex, Updated Edition by Alex Comfort (General, 1972)
• Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski (General, 1975)
• Connections by James Burke (General, 1979)
• Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E D Jr Hirsch (Nonfiction, 1987)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan David Bloom (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos (Nonfiction, 1989)
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O Wilson (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System by Bill Gates (Nonfiction, 1999)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville (2009, No. 26)

NPR's 10 Best Cookbooks

• How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman (2008)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman (2008)

Pulitzer Prize

• Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (General Non-Fiction, 1982)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick (General Non-Fiction, 1988)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Quill Award

• No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton (Business, 2007)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose (General, 1990)
• Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Junior, 1989)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick (General, 1989)
• Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking (General, 1989)
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O Wilson (General, 1999)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General, 1999)

Science writing award

• Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Children's, 1990)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville (2008)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W Hawking (1997, No 79)