Awards in your library

Summary: 26 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein (2005)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)

Books for a Better Life Award

• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (2008)
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Ph.D. Taylor, Jill Bolte (2008)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe (No. 1, 1997, Book of the Year)

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

• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

IPPY

• The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Marc W. Kirschner (Science, 2006)

John Burroughs Medal

• The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong by Donald Kroodsma (2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Science and Technology, 1994)
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (Science and Technology, 2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Ph.D. Taylor, Jill Bolte (Current Interest, 2008)
• The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally (Science & Technology, 2007)

Michigan Notable Books

• The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein (2005)

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

• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (24)
• The Ants by Bert Hölldobler (27)

National Book Award finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1987)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1982)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (General Nonfiction, 1981)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987)

New York Times bestseller

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Nonfiction, 2007)
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Ph.D. Taylor, Jill Bolte (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Holldobler (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin (2009)

Orion Book Award

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (2008, finalist)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Ants by Bert Hölldobler (General Non-Fiction, 1991)
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (General Non-Fiction, 1995)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General Non-Fiction, 1988)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General, 1989)
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley (General, 1994)
• The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things by Hannah Holmes (General, 2002)
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (General, 2007)

Salon Book Award

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (2007)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Non-fiction (1), 2007)