Awards in your library

Summary: 50 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (2007)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

Arthur Ross Book Award Shortlist

• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2007)

BBC National Short Story Award

• The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall (2008)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booker Prize

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (2000)

British Book Award

• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag-Montefiore (History Book of the Year, 2004)

British Fantasy Award Nominee

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2007)

British Guild of Food Writers

• A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (Food Book of the Year, 2002)

CBA Libris Award

• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2004)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Best Book, 2000)

Compton Crook Award Nominee

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (2007)

Crossword Prize

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (non-fiction, 2005)

Crossword Prize shortlist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire (Non-fiction, 2004)

Guardian 1000

• Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene (Comedy)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (State of the nation)

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

• Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene (2009)

IPPY Finalist

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the World by John Perkins (Current Events, 2005)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (Fiction, 2005)

Kiriyama Prize

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Nonfiction, 2005)

Lambda Literary Award

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Humor, 2000)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Humor, 2004)

Locus Recommended Reading

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (First Novel, 2006)

Martin Beck Award

• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré (1986)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Saturday by Ian McEwan (Semifinalist, 2006)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Fiction, 1999)
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (General Nonfiction, 2005)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré (1986)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)

New York Times bestseller

• The 4-hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2007)
• Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene (Fiction, 1958)
• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré (Fiction, 1986)
• Liar's Poker: Playing the Money Markets by Michael Lewis (Nonfiction, 1989)
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (Nonfiction, 2000)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the World by John Perkins (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)
• When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (Nonfiction, 2008)

Orange Prize Shortlist

• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (2003)

Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2007, No 07)

Prix du grand public Salon du livre de Montréal / La Presse

• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire (2004)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (General Non-Fiction, 2005)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

• Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux (2003)

SF Site Reader's Choice

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (#1, 2006)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Thurber Prize for American Humor

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2001)

TIME Best of '86

• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Non-fiction (4), 2004)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (Fiction (4), 2005)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

• Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene (61)

UEA Curtis Brown Prize

• The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall (1999)

WH Smith Literary Award

• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (2003)

Whitbread

• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (Novel, 2000)

World Fantasy Award Nominee

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Novel, 2007)

Århundrets bibliotek

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee