Awards in your library

Summary: 33 Awards.

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

• Novum Testamentum Graece by Eberhard Nestle (ca. 50–100 AD)
• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is to Come (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan (1684)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is to Come (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (2001)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle (History, 2004)
• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (History, 2004)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (This Small World: a Glimpse of Many Cultures, 2003)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell (1981)

Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize

• La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada--A Cultural History by Peter N. Moogk (2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson ( Adult Honor Book, 2000)

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

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

Guardian 1000

• The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka (Comedy)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics) by Henry Adams

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin English Library) by Thomas De Quincey

Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work

• The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka (1998)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (Current Interest, 1997)

National Book Award

• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell (History (Hardcover), 1981)
• Lucy the Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson (Science (Hardcover), 1982)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (General Nonfiction, 1997)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell (General Nonfiction, 1980)

New York City Book Award

• Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle (Book of the Year, 2003)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell (1980)
• Beowulf: Old English Edition (Penguin English Poets) (Old_english Edition) by Anonymous (Seamus Heaney translation, 2000)

New York Times bestseller

• Beowulf: Old English Edition (Penguin English Poets) (Old_english Edition) by Anonymous (Fiction, 2000)
• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (Nonfiction, 1999)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Nonfiction, 2005)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Anonymous
• The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka
• The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is to Come (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan (2003)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• The Stranger by Albert Camus (1989)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

• When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition by Elizabeth Becker (Honorable Mention, 1987)

Salon Book Award

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (2005)
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (Nonfiction, 1997)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

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

Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

• In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History by Stanley Stewart (2001)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Beowulf: Old English Edition (Penguin English Poets) (Old_english Edition) by Anonymous (Fiction (4), 2000)
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Non-fiction (5), 2005)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Stranger by Albert Camus (1997, No 20)

Western Heritage Award

• The American West: A New Interpretive History (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Robert V. Hine (Non-Fiction Book, 2001)

Whitbread (Book of the Year, 1999) Seamus Heaney translation

• Beowulf: Old English Edition (Penguin English Poets) (Old_english Edition) by Anonymous

Århundrets bibliotek

• The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka
• The Stranger by Albert Camus