Awards in your library

Summary: 106 Awards. Page: [1] 2 3

100 Essential New England Books

• The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (Boston Globe, #4)

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

• The Iliad (The Penquin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Chapman's Homer by Homer The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (3rd century BCE)
• I and Thou by Martin Buber (1923)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The golden notebook by Doris May Lessing (2006/2008 Edition)
• Them by J Oates (2006/2008 Edition)
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (2006/2008 Edition)
• The enormous room by E. E. Cummings (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• The Book of Nonsense: 2 by Edward Lear (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot (2009, Ages 8↑)

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

• The White Wave (Pitt Poetry Series) by Kate Daniels (1983)
• Kingdoms of the ordinary by Robley Wilson (1986)
• Torque (Pitt Poetry Series) by David Rivard (1987)
• Blue on blue ground by Aaron Smith (2004)
• Brother Salvage : poems by Rick Hilles (2005)
• Velocity (Pitt Poetry Series) by Nancy Krygowski (2006)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (5)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (5)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (1971)
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (2003)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Poetry Out Loud by Robert Alden Rubin (Poetry, 1999)
• Chapman's Homer by Homer The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Dream Keeper and other poems by Langston Hughes ( Poetry, 2001)
• Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• The Spoken Word Revolution (PB) with Audio CD by Mark Eleveld (2004)

Ambassador Book Award

• Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. by David S. Reynolds (Biography/Autobiography, 1996)

American Book Award

• Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe by Nicole Blackman (1994)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (2003)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The golden notebook by Doris May Lessing (1962)

APR Honickman 1st Book Prize

• Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue (Poems) by Ed Pavlic (2001)
• Blue Colonial (Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize) by David Roderick (2006)

Bagutta

• The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition (Italian Edition) by Andrea Zanzotto (2000)

Bancroft Prize

• Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. by David S. Reynolds (1996)

BBC's Big Read

• Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2007) Stanley Lombardo translation

• The Iliad (The Penquin Classics) by Homer

Best Books 2006 Awards Finalist (Lombardo, Unabridged Audio) Parmenides Publishing

• Chapman's Homer by Homer The Odyssey by Homer

Borges' A Personal Library

• Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by William Blake
• Bhagavad Gita : a new translation by Stephen Mitchell

Brittingham Prize in Poetry

• The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Lisa Lewis (1994)
• New Jersey (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Betsy Andrews (2007)

CAA Award

• Chameleon Hours (Phoenix Poets Series) by Elise Partridge (Poetry, 2009)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Poems and prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Literary Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Pound era by Hugh Kenner (Fiction, Silver, 1972)
• Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook (Nonfiction, Gold, 1991)
• Living together : new and selected poems by Edgar Bowers (Poetry, Silver, 1973)
• Fortress (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman (Poetry, Silver, 1989)
• What Work Is by Philip Levine (Poetry, Silver, 1991)
• Harping on: Poems 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer (Poetry, Silver, 1996)
• Sun under wood : new poems by Robert. Hass (Poetry, Silver, 1996)

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

• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound

Duff Cooper Prize

• North : [poems] by Seamus Heaney (1975)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• The Oresteia of Aeschylus by Aeschylus., (Tragedy, 458 BCE)

ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Gold Medalist

• Brother Salvage : poems by Rick Hilles (Poetry, 2006)

Forward Poetry Prize

• Swithering by Robin Robertson (Best Collection, 2006)
• The Lost Leader. Mick Imlah by Mick Imlah (Best Collection, 2008)
• The boy from the chemist is here to see you by Paul Farley (Best First Collection, 1998)

Greenwall Fund recepient

• Some Ether: Poems by Nick Flynn (1999)
• Worth : poems by Robyn Schiff (2002)

Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist

• Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick Seidel (International, 2007)

Guardian 1000

• The golden notebook by Doris May Lessing (Family and self)
• The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (Family and self)
• Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Family and self)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Collected Poems of W. B Yeats by W. B. Yeats
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
• I and Thou by Martin Buber

Hawthornden Prize

• I, Cladius: A Novel by Robert Graves by Robert Graves (1935)
• Edmund Campion, Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh (1936)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems by X.J. Kennedy (1993)
• The Dragons Are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky (1994)
• The Dream Keeper and other poems by Langston Hughes (1995)
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (2002)

IPPY Finalist

• The Imaginary Poets by Alan Michael Parker (Anthologies, 2006)

James Laughlin Award

• Wise Poison: Poems by David Rivard (1996)
• Miracles & Mortifications by Peter Johnson (2001)
• The Long Meadow: Poems by Vijay Seshadri (2003)
• Poeta En San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes (2005)
• Duende: Poems by Tracy K. Smith (2006)
• Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy (2007)
• the true keeps calm biding its story by Rusty Morrison (2008)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• CLADIUS THE GOD by R GRAVES (Fiction, 1934)
• I, Cladius: A Novel by Robert Graves by Robert Graves (Fiction, 1934)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

• Bite Every Sorrow: Poems by Barbara Ras (1999)
• The Brass Girl Brouhaha by Adrian Blevins (2004)

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

• Rapture by Susan Mitchell (1993)
• Middle Earth: Poems by Henri Cole (2004)
• Space Walk by Tom Sleigh (2008)

Lambda Literary Award

• Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems, 1991-1995 by Adrienne Cecile Rich (Lesbian Poetry, 1995)
• Mules of Love (American Poets Continuum) by Ellen Bass (Lesbian Poetry, 2002)
• Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch (Lesbian Poetry, 2004)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford (Biography, 2001)
• Say Goodnight by Timothy Liu (Gay Men's Poetry, 1998)
• The complete poems of Cavafy by Constantine Cavafy (Gay Men's Poetry, 2001)
• Middle Earth: Poems by Henri Cole (Gay Men's Poetry, 2003)
• Blue on blue ground by Aaron Smith (Gay Men's Poetry, 2005)
• Passing by Eloise Klein Healy (Lesbian Poetry, 2002)
• Domain of perfect affection by Robin Becker (Lesbian Poetry, 2006)
• The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson (Lesbian Poetry, 2006)
• What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Cecile Rich (Lesbian Studies, 1993)

Lamont Poetry Prize

• Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker (1973)
• After Our War (Pitt poetry series) by John Balaban (1974)
• Lucky Life by Gerald Stern (1977)
• Killing floor: Poems by Ai (1978)
• Sunrise by Frederick Seidel (1979)
• The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche (1981)
• Long Walks in the Afternoon: Poems by Margaret Gibson (1982)
• THE DEAD & THE LIVING (Knopf Poetry Series) by Sharon Olds (1983)
• Song (American Poets Continuum) by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1994)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce (2)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (5)
• The golden notebook by Doris May Lessing (59)

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

• The names of the lost : poems by Philip Levine (1977)
• Collected poems, 1919-1976 by Allen Tate (1978)
• Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems, 1969-1977 by Hayden Carruth (1979)
• Travels by W.S. Merwin (1994)
• Still Life with Waterfall: Poems by Eamon Grennan (2003)

Lenore Marshall Prize Nominee

• Skid (Pitt Poetry Series) by Dean Young (2003)
• Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry) by Jean Valentine (2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Maximus poems by Charles Olson (Poetry, 1984)
• Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott (Poetry, 1986)
• What Work Is by Philip Levine (Poetry, 1991)
• Mixed Company (Phoenix Poets Series) by Alan Shapiro (Poetry, 1996)
• Mysteries of Small Houses (Poets, Penguin) by Alice Notley (Poetry, 1998)
• Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick Seidel (Poetry, 2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems by Elaine Equi (Poetry, 2007)
• The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 by Albert Goldbarth (Poetry, 2007)
• Mars being red by Marvin Bell (Poetry, 2007)

Page: [1] 2 3