Awards in your library

Summary: 18 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Jazz by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair (1995)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen (History, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair ( Tales of the Cities, 2002)
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)
• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah ( Hard Knock Life, 2010)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Thieves' Paradise by Eric Jerome Dickey (2003)
• Unbelievable, Life, Death and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. by Cheo Hodari Coker (2005)
• From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent (2006)
• Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics by Alicia Keys (2006)
• Tupac Shakur Legacy by Jamal Joseph (2008)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent (2006)
• Tupac Shakur Legacy by Jamal Joseph (2008)

American Book Award

• Mama by Terry McMillan (1987)
• Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones (2004)

Christy Award Nominee

• Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Left Behind #5) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Futuristic, 2000)

Golden Medallion Award

• Brazen Virtue by Nora Robers (Best Suspense, 1989)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel

Minnesota Book Awards

• Welcome to My Planet by Shannon Olson ( Novel & Short Story, 2001)

National Book Award

• THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE by Gloria NAYLOR (First Novel, 1983)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)

New York Times bestseller

• Jazz by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1992)
• WAITING To EXHALE. by Terry Mcmillan (Fiction, 1992)
• HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK by Terry Mcmillian (Fiction, 1996)
• Big Girls Don't Cry (One World Fawcett Gold Medal Bk) by Connie Briscoe (Fiction, 1996)
• Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (Fiction, 1996)
• If This World Were Mine by E.Lynn Harris (Fiction, 1997)
• Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Left Behind #5) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Fiction, 1999)
• Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey (Fiction, 2001)
• A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan (Fiction, 2001)
• Thieves' Paradise by Eric Jerome Dickey (Fiction, 2002)
• Naughty or Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey (Fiction, 2003)
• The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan (Fiction, 2005)
• Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey (Fiction, 2005)
• The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby (Fiction, 2005)
• Changing Faces by Kimberla Lawson Roby (Fiction, 2006)
• Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey (Fiction, 2006)
• Midnight: A Gangster Love Story by Sister Souljah (Fiction, 2008)
• From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel (Nonfiction, 2006)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel (2009, No. 76)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (1998)
• Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel (2006)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Jazz by Toni Morrison (56)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (100)