Awards in your library

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

• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais (1534)
• Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel De Montaigne (1580)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 5↑)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) by Peter Novick (1989)

Bancroft Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

Berkshire Conference First Book Prize

• Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) by Ruth Rogaski (2004)

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

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

• Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

George Louis Beer Prize

• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (1994)
• A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era by Matthew Connelly (2002)
• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder (2003)

Guardian 1000

• Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Italo Calvino (War and travel)

Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies

• Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation by Thongchai Winichakul (1995)

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

• The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Wilder House Series in Politics, by Terry Martin (2003)

Herbert Hoover Book Award

• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (1994)

IPPY

• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (Religion, 2005)

J. David Greenstone Prize

• Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture) by Mabel Berezin (1998)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Philip E.Lilienthal Books) by Gail Hershatter (1997)

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 (1983)
• Japan's Modern Myths by Carol Gluck (1986)
• The State and Labor in Modern Japan by Sheldon Garon (1988)
• Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 by Prasenjit Duara (1989)
• Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Twentieth Century Japan : the Emergence of a World Power, No 1) by Andrew Gordon (1991)
• Offspring of Empire: The Koch'Ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Korean Studies of the H by Carter J. Eckert (1992)
• Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka (1993)
• Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book) by David G. Marr (1996)
• History in Three Keys by Paul A. Cohen (1997)
• Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Twentieth-Century Japan, 8) by Louise Young (1998)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)
• Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a by Julia Adeney Thomas (2002)
• Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) by Ruth Rogaski (2005)

John Whitney Hall Book Prize

• Offspring of Empire: The Koch'Ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Korean Studies of the H by Carter J. Eckert (1994)
• Korea Between Empires by Andre Schmid (2004)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings (1997)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Emperor of Japan by Donald Keene (Nonfiction, 2002)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

Leo Gershoy Award

• Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel (2001)

Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies

• Chinese Democracy by Andrew J. Nathan (1987, 20th century)
• Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 by Prasenjit Duara (1990, 20th century)
• Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 by Philip A. Kuhn (1992, pre-20th century)
• Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution by John Fitzgerald (1998, 20th century)
• Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) by Ruth Rogaski (2006, post-1900)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton (History, 1984)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (History, 1999)
• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (History, 2000)

Ludwik Fleck Prize

• A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations s by Steven Shapin (1996)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

Massachusetts Book Award

• Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides by Christian G. Appy (Nonfiction, 2004)

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

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (28)
• Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson (30)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)

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

• How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff (44)
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (76)

Morris D. Forkosch Prize

• Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers (2004)

National Book Award

• The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay (History or Biography, 1967)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)

National Book Award finalist

• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1986)
• The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin (Nonfiction, 1993)
• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (Nonfiction, 2000)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (Biography/Autobiography, 2000)
• Borges: Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Criticism, 1999)
• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (General Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Criticism, 1978)
• The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton (General Nonfiction, 1984)
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (General Nonfiction, 1986)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (General Nonfiction, 1999)
• The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (General Nonfiction, 2000)

Nebula Nominee

• Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Italo Calvino (Novel, 1975)

New England Historical Association Book Award

• History in Three Keys by Paul A. Cohen (1996)
• Dissolution by Charles S. Maier (1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay (1969)
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (1972)
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (1978)
• Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (1980)
• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence (1984)

New York Times bestseller

• Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (General, 1971)
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (Nonfiction, 1998)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (2009, No. 34)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais
• Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel De Montaigne

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton by James Mann (2000)

Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History

• A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era by Matthew Connelly (2002)

PEN/Martha Albrand Award

• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (2005)

Pulitzer Prize

• Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (General Non-Fiction, 1972)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (General Non-Fiction, 2000)
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (General Non-Fiction, 2001)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Power and Culture : The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 by Akira Iriye (History, 1982)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (General, 1999)

Salon Book Award

• Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston (Nonfiction, 2000)

Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award

• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (1995)

SWR-Bestenliste

• Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel De Montaigne (1998)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (2008)

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