Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Sula by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• Jazz by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (45)
• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (84)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (42)
• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (85)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1976)
• We are your sisters : Black women in the nineteenth century by Dorothy Sterling (1984)
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz (1992)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1996)
• Joycelyn Elders, M.D. : From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America by Joycelyn Elders (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (Biography, 1999)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Biography, 1999)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition by Zlata Filipovic ( The Stories of Our Lives, 1997)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Lock it, Lick it, Click it: Diaries, Letters and Email, 2003)
• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patitllo Beals ( If It Weren’t For Them: Heroes, 2004)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler (1971)
• Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library) by Peter H. Wood (1974)
• American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan (1976)
• Booker T. Washington: Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (Oxford Paperbacks) by Louis R. Harlan (1983)

Allan Nevins Prize

• Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction by James L. Roark (1974)

Ambassador Book Award

• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch (Biography/Autobiography, 1989)

American Book Award

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)

American Library Association Dartmouth Award

• Black Women in America (3 Vol. Set) by Darlene Clark Hine

Bancarella

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1978)

Bancroft Prize

• White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (1969)
• Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler (1972)
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese (1975)
• Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel (1975)
• Booker T. Washington: Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (Oxford Paperbacks) by Louis R. Harlan (1984)
• Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town 1784-1860 by Suzanne Lebsock (1985)
• Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow Black Women, Work, and the fAMily from Slaveryto the Present by Jacqueline Jones (1986)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (1999)
• Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight (2002)

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for Nonfiction, 2001

• Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation by Larry Eugene Rivers

C. Wright Mills Award

• Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins (1990)

Carl Sandburg Award

• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

Christopher Award

• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack (Nonfiction, Silver, 1979)

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

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch (Leadership)

Francis Parkman Prize

• White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (1969)
• American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan (1976)
• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack (1980)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)

Frederick Douglass Prize

• Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight (2001)
• Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin (2004)
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (First Prize, 1999)

Frederick Jackson Turner Award

• Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson (2000)

Guardian 1000

• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (Family and self)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz

International IMPAC Dublin

• Paradise by Toni Morrison (Shortlist, 2000)

Iowa Teen Award Nominee

• Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition by Zlata Filipovic (1996-1997)

James A. Rawley Prize

• Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight (2002)

Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (1977)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (Galaxy Books) by Bertram Wyatt-Brown (1982)
• The RESHAPING OF PLANTATION SOCIETY: The Natchez District, 1860-80 (Blacks in the New World) by Michael Wayne (1983)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• The creation of patriarchy by Gerda Lerner (1986)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century (Yale Historical Publications Series) by Barbara Jeanne Fields (1986)
• Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff (1987)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (12)

Lillian Smith Award

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1977)
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (1989)
• Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture) by Stephanie M. H. Camp (2005)
• Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American Histor by Heather Andrea Williams (2006)

Lincoln Prize

• Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by Kenneth M. Stampp (1993)
• Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation by John Hope Franklin (2000)
• Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight (2002)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch (Current Interest, 1989)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (History, 1988)

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

• Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics) by Booker T. Washington (3)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (51)

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

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (91)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (The Reader's List, 31)

National Book Award

• The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Gloria Naylor (First Novel, 1983)
• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack (History (Paperback), 1981)
• White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (History or Biography, 1969)

National Book Award finalist

• Sula by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1975)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (Galaxy Books) by Bertram Wyatt-Brown (History (Hardcover), 1983)
• The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Oxford Paperbacks) by David Brion Davis (History and Biography, 1967)
• Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter : With the Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) by Theodore Rosengarten (Nonfiction, 1986)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch (Nonfiction, 1989)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1977)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch (General Nonfiction, 1988)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter : With the Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) by Theodore Rosengarten (Biography/Autobiography, 1986)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (General Nonfiction, 1976)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (General Nonfiction, 1998)

NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

• Children of the Emancipation (Picture the American Past) by Wilma King (2001)

New York City Book Award

• New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore (Book of the Year, 2005)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese (1974)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1976)
• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (1977)
• Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition by James H. Jones (1981)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch (1988)
• Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)

New York Times bestseller

• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1981)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan (Fiction, 1992)
• Jazz by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1992)
• Paradise by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1998)
• A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillian (Fiction, 2001)
• Love (Ficton group) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 2003)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (General, 1952)
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (General, 1976)
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz (Nonfiction, 1991)
• Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race by Dick Morris (Nonfiction, 2005)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Winner)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2009, No. 20)
• Song of Solomon (Picador Books) by Toni Morrison (2009, No. 57)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz (2009, No. 97)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

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