Awards in your library

Summary: 20 Awards.

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• Goya by Robert Hughes (2005)

Ambassador Book Award

• Storming the gates of paradise : landscapes for politics by Rebecca Solnit (American Studies, 2008)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Sunset western garden book (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D'Amato (1999)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The great central valley : California's heartland by Stephen Johnson (Californiana, Silver, 1993)
• River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit (Nonfiction, Gold, 2003)
• Mountain light : in search of the dynamic landscape by Galen A. Rowell (Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1986)

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

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• Sunset western garden book

Eric Hoffer Book Award

• Thought to exist in the wild : awakening from the nightmare of zoos by Derrick Jensen (Grand Prize, 2008)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (007)

Lambda Literary Award

• Dear friends : American photographs of men together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher (Photography/Visual Arts, 2001)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit (2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• On photography by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 1977)
• River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit (Criticism, 2003)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Regarding the pain of others by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 2003)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• On photography by Susan Sontag (1977)

New York Times bestseller

• On photography by Susan Sontag (General, 1978)
• Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 by Annie Leibovitz (Nonfiction, 1991)
• Assembling California by John A. McPhee (Nonfiction, 1993)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Air guitar : essays on art & democracy by Dave Hickey (2009)

PEN Center USA Literary Award

• Bravo 20 : the bombing of the American West by Richard Misrach (Nonfiction, 1991)

Sally Hacker Prize

• River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit (2004)

San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Nonfiction of the American West

• Assembling California by John A. McPhee (1999)
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (1999)

Spur Award

• River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit (Nonfiction-Contemporary, 2004)

Village Voice 25 Favorite Books

• River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit (2003)