Awards in your library

Summary: 19 Awards.

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (1943)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (History, 2004)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel by Chronicle Books LLC Staff (2002)

Alex Award

• The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1999)

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)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America by James Kynge (2006)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Go-Go Years : The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s (Wiley Investment Classics) by John Brooks (Booms and Busts)
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (The Corporation)
• Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean (Ethics)
• The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham (Investing)
• Fooled by Randomness Revision (Not Available in US) : The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)
• When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Wall Street)
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (A Marketplace Book) by Edwin Lefèvre (Wall Street)

IPPY

• Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel (Business/Career, 2001)

IPPY Finalist

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Current Events, 2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider (Current Interest, 1988)

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

• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (16)

New York Times bestseller

• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (General, 1943)
• Money Game (Vintage) by Adam Smith (General, 1968)
• Supermoney (Wiley Investment Classics) by Adam Smith (General, 1972)
• The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System by Bill Gates (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Maestro : Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom by Bob Woodward (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Positively Fifth Street by James McManus (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough (Nonfiction, 2009)
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction, 2008)

Phi Beta Kappa Award

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Science, 1997)

Pulitzer Prize

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (General, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (1998)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Non-fiction (10), 2008)
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (Non-fiction (3), 2008)