Awards in your library

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Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2003)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (1982)
Annie John: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid (1985)
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol (1997)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X (Biography, 1999)
Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Non-fiction, 1999)
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (History & Cultures, 2009)
The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

In cold blood; a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1999)

Alex Award

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)

Ambassador Book Award

Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel (Fiction, 2007)

And/Or Book Award

Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte (Moving Image, 1995)

Anthony Award

The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Best First Novel, 1995)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)

Bancarella

Doctor Zhivago By Boris Pasternak by Boris Pasternak (1958)

BBC's Big Read

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
Ulysses (MODERN LIBRARY OFTHE WORLD'S BEST BOOK, THIRD NOVEL FOR JOYCE, NOT IN SERIES...) by JAMES JOYCE (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 129)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
SONS AND LOVERS by D. H. LAWRENCE (Best loved novel, 2003, No 190)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Book Sense Book of the Year

The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2001)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)
The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2007)

Booker Prize

Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)

Booker Prize Shortlist

The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing (1985)

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Novel, 1994)

British Book Award

My Life by Bill Clinton (Biography of the Year, 2005)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Literary Classics)
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2000)

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

Ditmar Award

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (International Fiction, 1970)

Edgar Award

In cold blood; a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (Fact Crime, 1966)

Edgar Award Nominee

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (009)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fomentor Award

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Francis Parkman Prize

Truman by David McCullough (1993)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2001)

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

The Alienist by Caleb Carr (International Prize, 1996)

Great Lakes Book Award

Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

The Castle (Modern Library, 388.1) by Franz Kafka (Comedy)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Comedy)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Comedy)
Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (Comedy)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime)
SANCTUARY by WILLIAM FAULKNER (Crime)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
SONS AND LOVERS by D. H. LAWRENCE (Family and self)
Herzog by Saul Bellow (Family and self)
Ulysses (MODERN LIBRARY OFTHE WORLD'S BEST BOOK, THIRD NOVEL FOR JOYCE, NOT IN SERIES...) by JAMES JOYCE (Family and self)
A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (Family and self)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Family and self)
Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (Family and self)
Women in Love By D.H. Lawrence by D.H. Lawrence (Love)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Love)
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (Love)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Love)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Love)
Doctor Zhivago By Boris Pasternak by Boris Pasternak (Love)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The House of the Seven Gables (Bantam Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (State of the nation)
The House of Mirth (Bantam Classics) by Edith Wharton (State of the nation)
The Idiot (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (State of the nation)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
The tin drum by Günter Grass (War and travel)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (War and travel)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Harry Chapin Media Award

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol (Book, 1995)

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

Immortality by Milan Kundera (1991)

International IMPAC Dublin

The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (Shortlist, 2000)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Shortlist, 2003)
Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (Shortlist, 2004)

International Literary Award

Herzog by Saul Bellow

IPPY

What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (General Fiction, 2007)

Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize

Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)

James Fenimore Cooper Prize

The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (2005)

James L. Dow Award

Herzog by Saul Bellow

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction, 2002)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)
Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.) by Uzodinma Iweala (Fiction, 2005)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.) by Uzodinma Iweala (2005)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (2005)

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