Awards in your library

Summary: 39 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Arts & Humanities, 2009)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (Adult Fiction Winner, 2001)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booker Prize Longlist

• The Gift of Rain: A Novel by Tan Twan Eng (2007)

Books for a Better Life Award

• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (2008)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA) by Alan Taylor (Nonfiction, Gold, 2001)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1998)

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

Guardian 1000

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (War and travel)

Heartland Prize

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)

Lillian Smith Award

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)

Locus Poll Award

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Best Fantasy Novel, 1984)

Locus Poll Nominee

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (All-Time Best Fantasy Novel before 1990, 1998)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2008)

Michigan Notable Books

• Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen (2008)

Mythopoeic Nominee

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Fantasy Award, 1983)

National Book Award

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)

National Book Award finalist

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2005)
• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2008)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)
• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2008)
• Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction, 2008)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

New York Times bestseller

• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene (Fiction, 1956)
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Fiction, 1983)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)
• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2008)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Fiction, 2008)
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (Fiction, 2008)
• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, 2008)
• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction & Poetry, 2008)
• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction & Poetry, 2008)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• On Agate Hill: A Novel by Lee Smith (2006)
• People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (2007)
• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

NPR's Top Migration and Memory Books

• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene (2003)

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2009)

PEN/Faulkner Award

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (2006)

Pulitzer Prize

• March by Geraldine Brooks (Fiction, 2006)
• Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction, 2009)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Fiction, 2006)

Reading List Award shortlist

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (2009)

Salon Book Award

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)

The Story Prize

• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, finalist)

Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1998)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction (3), 1997)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Fiction (5), 2005)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Fiction (7), 2008)
• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction (5), 2008)

Tournament of Books selection

• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2009)
• Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri (2009)

W.D. Weatherford Award

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (88)