Awards in your library

Summary: 33 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008 Edition)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)
• A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (creative writing, top twelve)

Alex Award

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (2009)

BBC's Big Read

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 85)

Bellwether Prize

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Booker Prize

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Nonfiction, Gold, 1998)

Duff Cooper Prize

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

Florida Book Award

• Requiem, Mass.: A Novel by John Dufresne (2008, gold medal)

Galaxy British Book Award

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (2009, shortlist)

Giller

• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (2000)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Fiction, 2000)

Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist

• Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems 1985-2005 by Rodney Jones (International, 2007)

Guardian 1000

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Family and self)
• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (State of the nation)

Irish Times International Fiction Prize

• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (2001)

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

• Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems 1985-2005 by Rodney Jones (2007)

Kiriyama Prize

• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Fiction, 2000)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

Médicis

• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Étranger, 2000)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (General Nonfiction, 1998)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)

New York Times bestseller

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Fiction, 1997)
• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Fiction, 2000)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2009, No. 14)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2003)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (70)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Fiction (5), 1997)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe

WH Smith Literary Award

• Omeros by Derek Walcott (1991)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (92)

Århundrets bibliotek

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy