Awards in your library

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

• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2004, 72)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Native American Testimony: Chronicle Indian White Relations from Prophecy Present 1942 2000 (rev Edition) (1978)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2001)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2003)

ALA Notable Books

• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (2007)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Humanities, 2004)
• John Adams by David McCullough (History, 2004)
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Own Your Freak, 2005)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (What Makes a Family?, 2008)

Alex Award

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2001)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2004)
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (2007)

All Iowa Reads

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: August 2009

• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley (#65)

Ambassador Book Award

• Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Fiction, 2002)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

BBC's Big Read

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Best loved novel, 2003, No 15)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 154)

Boeke Prize

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2002)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2004)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ( Children's Literature Honor Book, 2007)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2008)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2001)

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Bram Stoker

• On Writing by Stephen King (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, 2000)

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

British Book Award

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Book of the Year, 2004)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Popular Fiction Award, 2006)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton (Holy Men and Women)
• The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila (Spiritual Classics)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Life of The Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J Nouwen (Christian Living and Spirituality, No. 2, 1994, Critics' Choice)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)
• The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris (No. 7, 1997, tie)
• An Introduction to the New Testament (Anchor Bible Reference) by Raymond E. Brown (No. 10, 1998, tie)
• The Christian Theology Reader (No. 18, 1996, tie)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Nonfiction, Gold, 2006)

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

• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• John Adams by David McCullough (2001)

Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Evans Biography Award

• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams (1991)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2002)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2005)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• John Adams by David McCullough (2002)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Fiction, 2004)

Guardian 1000

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Family and self)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers (Love)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Love)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Love)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

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

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Heartland Prize

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Native American Testimony: Chronicle Indian White Relations from Prophecy Present 1942 2000 (rev Edition) (1979)

Hugo Nominee

• On Writing by Stephen King (Best Related Book (Nomination below cutoff), 2001)

International Horror Guild Nominee

• On Writing by Stephen King (Best Non-Fiction, 2000)

IPPY Finalist

• Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren F. Winner (Religion, 2003)

James Beard Foundation Award

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Writing on Food, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Fiction, 2001)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2005)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (60)

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