Awards in your library

Summary: 24 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (Social Sciences, 2004)
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (History & Cultures, 2009)

Alex Award

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (2007)

Anthony Award Nominee

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (First Novel, 2009)

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner (2009, second place)

Barry Award nominee

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Adult Fiction Winner, 2007)
• Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (2008)

Costa Shortlist

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (First Novel, 2008)

CWA

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, winner, 2008)

Dilys Award nominee

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (2009)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind (Penguin Us) by Bruce Watson (Fact Crime, 2008)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

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

Galaxy British Book Award

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (2009, shortlist)

Great Lakes Book Award

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Fiction, 2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62) by David Wroblewski (Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2008)
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Mystery/Thriller, 2008)

New York Times bestseller

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Fiction, 2006)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62) by David Wroblewski (Fiction, 2008)
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Fiction, 2008)
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (Nonfiction, 1997)
• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (Nonfiction, 2006)
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction, 2007)
• If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation by Janine Latus (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (Nonfiction, 2008)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62) by David Wroblewski (2008)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam (History, 2008)

Reading Across Rhode Island

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (2008)

Salon Book Award

• Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King (2004)

The Strand Critics Award

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize

• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (2006)

Thriller Award

• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Best First Novel, 2009)