Awards in your library

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Guardian 1000 (Comedy)

• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

100 Essential New England Books

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Boston Globe, #7)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Essays in Love/a Novel by Alain De Botton (2006/2008 Edition)
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• New Grub Street (Modern Library Classics) by George Gissing (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) by Robertson Davies (2008 Edition)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (23)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Fences by August Wilson (Drama, 1999)

All Iowa Reads

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Ambassador Book Award

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

American Library Association Notable Book, 1981

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

Balrog Nominee

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (Novel, 1979)

BBC's Big Read

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (Best loved novel, 2003, No 53)
• The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)

Believer Book Award

• Remainder by Tom Mccarthy (2008)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins
• The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Saturday by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)
• Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill (2008)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

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

• Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye

Drama Desk Award

• Fences by August Wilson (New Play, 1986-1987)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Fomentor Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

Galaxy British Book Award

• Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill (2009, shortlist)

Gandalf Nominee

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (Book-Length Fantasy, 1979)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Guardian 1000

• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins (Crime)
• The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• Sanctuary: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner (Crime)
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (Crime)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (Family and self)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Love)
• New Grub Street (Modern Library Classics) by George Gissing (State of the nation)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins (2)

Heartland Prize

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (1981)

Hugo Nominee

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (Best Dramatic Presentation (Nomination below cutoff), 1995)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (Shortlist, 1999)

International Literary Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

IPPY

• Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald Edelman (Psychology/Mental Health, 2005)

James L. Dow Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (Fiction, 2005)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (Fiction, 1997)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins (1868)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (53)

Locus Award Finalist

• Spook Country by William Gibson (Science Fiction Novel, 2008)

Locus Poll Nominee

• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (Best SF Novel, 1979)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker (Science and Technology, 1997)
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (Science and Technology, 2006)

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

• Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye (47)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (The Board's List, 75)
• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King (The Reader's List, 29)
• Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) by Robertson Davies (The Reader's List, 40)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Remainder by Tom Mccarthy (Finalist, 2008)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (Semifinalist, 2006)

Médicis

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Essai, 2007)
• The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco (Étranger, 1982)

National Book Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (Fiction, 1965)
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Nonfiction, 2005)

National Book Award finalist

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction (Paperback), 1983)
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom (Nonfiction, 1998)
• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun (Nonfiction, 2000)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Autobiography/Memoir, 2005)
• The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History by Leo Braudy (Criticism, 1986)
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom (Criticism, 1998)
• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun (Criticism, 2000)
• Galatea 2.2: A Novel by Richard Powers (Fiction, 1995)
• How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

NEA Big Read

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2009)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Fences by August Wilson (Play, 1986-1987)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (1981)
• The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco (1983)
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright (1994)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2004)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
• Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill (2008)

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