Awards in your library

Summary: 16 Awards.

American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

• The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins (1999)

Bancroft Prize

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (1992)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Small World by David Lodge (1984)
• Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge (1988)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins (Apologetics/Evangelism, 2007)

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

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)

Guardian 1000

• Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge (Comedy)
• Changing Places by David Lodge (Comedy)

Hawthornden Prize

• Changing Places by David Lodge (1975)

Heartland Prize

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (Non-Fiction, 1992)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science & Technology, 2007)

Ludwik Fleck Prize

• The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins (2002)

New York Times bestseller

• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins (Nonfiction, 2006)
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (2009)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (History, 1992)

Sunday Express Fiction Award

• Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge (1988)