Awards in your library

Summary: 34 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi (2006 Edition)
• The man without qualities by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)

Alice Davis Hitchcock Award

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the modern movement by Thomas Howarth (1953)
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Hamlin (1955)
• The architecture of Michelangelo by James S. Ackerman (1961)
• Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan (Architectural History Foundation Book) by Patricia Waddy (1991)
• Hadrian's villa and its legacy by William Lloyd MacDonald (1996)
• The dancing column : on order in architecture by Joseph Rykwert (1998)
• The architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934 by Eve Blau (2001)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Fletcher Steele, landscape architect : an account of a gardenmaker's life, 1885-1971 by Robin S. Karson (1997)
• Herbaceous perennial plants : a treatise on their identification, culture, and garden attributes by A. M. Armitage (1997)
• Perennials for American gardens by Ruth Rogers Clausen (1997)
• Onward and upward in the garden by Katharine Sergeant Angell White (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• The gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman by Judith B. Tankard (1998)
• Art of the Japanese Garden by David E. Young (2006)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The varieties of religious experience a study in human nature; by William James

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski (2000)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Julia Morgan, Architect by Sara Holmes Boutelle (Californiana, Gold, 1988)
• The arts and crafts movement in California : living the good life by Kenneth R. Trapp (Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1993)

Duff Cooper Prize

• C.R. Ashbee : architect, designer & romantic socialist by Alan Crawford (1986)
• Albert Speer : his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny (1995)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• The Art That Is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1875-1920 by Wendy Kaplan (1988)
• The modernist garden in France / Dorothée Imbert by Dorothée Imbert (1994)
• Hadrian's villa and its legacy by William Lloyd MacDonald (1996)

Guardian 1000

• The man without qualities by Robert Musil (Family and self)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The varieties of religious experience a study in human nature; by William James

IPPY Finalist

• Infinite Spaces: The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden by Joe Earle (Home & Garden, 2001)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski (2000)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Albert Speer : his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny (Biography, 1995)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley (Biography, 1999)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: 1909-1954 v. 2 by Hilary Spurling (Biography, 2005)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• The man without qualities by Robert Musil (1958)

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

• The varieties of religious experience a study in human nature; by William James (2)

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

• The varieties of religious experience a study in human nature; by William James (43)

National Book Award finalist

• Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture by Carl E. Schorske (History (Hardcover), 1981)
• New York 1930 : architecture and urbanism between the two world wars by Robert A. M. Stern (Nonfiction, 1987)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Biography, 2007)

New York City Book Award

• Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York by Jewel Stern (Architecture, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling (1998)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Non-Fiction, 2007)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The varieties of religious experience a study in human nature; by William James (2009, No. 89)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The man without qualities by Robert Musil

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• The man without qualities by Robert Musil (Novel, 1958)

Pulitzer Prize

• Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Hamlin (Biography or Autobiography, 1956)
• Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture by Carl E. Schorske (General Non-Fiction, 1981)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: 1909-1954 v. 2 by Hilary Spurling (2005)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Non-fiction (2), 2007)

Whitbread

• Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: 1909-1954 v. 2 by Hilary Spurling (Book of the Year, 2005)

Whitbread Shortlist

• Albert Speer : his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny (Biography, 1995)
• Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling (Biography, 1999)

Wolfson History Prize

• William Morris : a life for our time by Fiona MacCarthy (1994)

Århundrets bibliotek

• The man without qualities by Robert Musil