Awards in your library

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

• The Koran (Classics) by Anonymous (7th century)
• Origin Of Species by Rh Value Publishing (1859)
• Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (1990)
• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke (2000)
• The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner (2006)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (Fiction, 1999)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (History, 2004)
• Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke ( War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)

American Book Award

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (2005)

And/Or Book Award

• BEING DIGITAL by NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE (Moving Image, 1995)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2005)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Driving Mr. Albert - A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)

Booker Prize

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1982)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Non-Fiction, 1989)

CBA Libris Award

• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2003)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time by Clark Blaise (2002)
• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2004)

Christianity Today Book Awards

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

Christopher Award

• The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History, Vol. 2) by Thomas Cahill (1999)

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

• Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Cundill International Prize in History Longlist

• The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (2008)

Duff Cooper Prize

• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes (1987)
• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2001)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (024)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (honorable mention, 2005)

George Washington Book Prize

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2005)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Non-fiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (War and travel)

Herbert Feis Award

• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes (1987)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (1989)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France (Vintage) by Carmen Callil (Biography, 2006)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2003)
• The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross (2004)

Lionel Trilling Book Award

• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (2000)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Theodore Rex: 1901-1909 by Edmund Morris (Biography, 2001)
• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (Current Interest, 1987)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (Fiction, 1983)
• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (History, 2002)

National Book Award

• Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer (Nonfiction, 1961)
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L Friedman (Nonfiction, 1989)

National Book Award finalist

• There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok by Yaffa Eliach (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Mapping Human History by Steve Olson (Nonfiction, 2002)
• The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature by Heinz R. Pagels (Science (Hardcover), 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Biography, 2004)
• While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer (Criticism, 2006)
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (General Nonfiction, 1989)
• The Middle East by Bernard Lewis (General Nonfiction, 1996)
• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (General Nonfiction, 1996)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 (A Bantam book) by Lucy S Dawidowicz (1975)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1982)
• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (1986)
• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes (1987)
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1989)
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L Friedman (1989)
• Life: An Unauthorized Biography by R.A. Fortey (1998)
• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2002)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2004)

New York Times bestseller

• My mission in Israel, 1948-1951 by James G. (James Grover) (1886-1964) McDonald (General, 1951)
• Treblinka by Jean-Francois Steiner (General, 1967)
• O Jerusalem! by COLLINS LARRY AND LAPIERRE DOMINIQUE (General, 1972)
• My Life by Golda Meir (General, 1975)
• Heritage: Civilization and the Jews by Abba Solomon Eban (Nonfiction, 1984)
• History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (Nonfiction, 1991)
• SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS: EARTH BEFORE HUMANS by ANN DRUYAN CARL SAGAN (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Nonfiction, 1996)
• The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History, Vol. 2) by Thomas Cahill (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Theodore Rex: 1901-1909 by Edmund Morris (Nonfiction, 2001)
• What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (Nonfiction, 2002)
• The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Nonfiction, 2003)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis (Nonfiction, 2003)
• World on Fire by Amy Chua (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold (Nonfiction, 2003)
• An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by David Frum (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (Non-Fiction, 2007)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Origin Of Species by Rh Value Publishing (2009, No. 27)

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L Friedman (1990)

PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize

• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2002)

Pulitzer Prize

• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (General Non-Fiction, 1987)
• The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (General Non-Fiction, 2008)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (General Non-Fiction, 1990)
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (General Non-Fiction, 2000)
• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes (History, 1996)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (41)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• THE LANGUAGE OF THE GENES. by Steve. Jones (General, 1994)
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (General, 2000)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (General, 2004)
• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Junior, 1989)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)
• Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples by Marcus Chown (General, 1994)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction

• The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (2001)
• Peacemakers Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2002)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)
• Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France (Vintage) by Carmen Callil (2006)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

• Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (2003)

Science writing award

• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Children's, 1990)

Science Writing Award

• The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (Scientist, 1977)
• The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature by Heinz R. Pagels (Scientist, 1982)

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