Awards in your library

Summary: 28 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (2006/2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Ages 3↑)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (1979)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery (Science & Technology, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams ( Humor, 2001)
• An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore ( Change Your World, 2010)

BBC's Big Read

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (Best loved novel, 2003, No 04)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• Where the Wild Things Are

Caldecott Medal

• Where the Wild Things Are (1964)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL SETTINGS AND RITUALS by Spiro Kostof (Nonfiction, Gold, 1985)

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

• A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander

Ditmar Award

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (International Fiction, 1980)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Guardian 1000

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Where the Wild Things Are (1964)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Cities and the Wealth of Nations (Vintage) by Jane Jacobs (Current Interest, 1984)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Science and Technology, 1996)

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

• City in History by Lewis Mumford (76)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (The Reader's List, 51)

National Book Award

• City in History by Lewis Mumford (Nonfiction, 1962)

National Book Award finalist

• The death and life of great American cities by Jane Jacobs (Nonfiction, 1962)

New York Times bestseller

• Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Plume) by Al Gore (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Nonfiction, 1996)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Quill Award

• An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (History/Current Events/Politics, 2006)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (72)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

• Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Plume) by Al Gore (Winner, 1993)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (2008)

Tähtivaeltaja: 1900-luvun tieteiskirjallisuuden TOP-50

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (2000)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams (1997, No 24)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

• Where the Wild Things Are (1997, No 59)