Awards in your library

Summary: 20 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ( Children's Literature Honor Book, 2007)

British Book Award

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Book of the Year, 2004)

Business Week Top Ten Books of the Year

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

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

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud

Eisner Award

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Best Comics-Related Book, 1994)

forbes.com Top Ten Books of the Year

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

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

Harvey Award

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Graphic Album of Original Work, 1994)

IPPY Finalist

• Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman (Computer/Internet, 2003)

Jolt Awards

• Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design (ACM Press) by Larry L. Constantine (1999)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker (Science and Technology, 1997)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (21)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (75)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Times bestseller

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (General, 1959)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The Long Tail (in Simplified Chinese Characters) by C. Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker (General, 1999)

Squiddy Award

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud (Graphic Novel, 1993)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2008)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)