Awards in your library

Summary: 34 Awards.

100 Essential New England Books

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (Boston Globe, #6)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon (Social Sciences, 2004)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Social Sciences, 2004)

ALA Rainbow List

• Gay America: Struggle for Equality by Linas Alsenas (Young Adult Nonfiction, 2009)

Alex Award

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)
• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (2005)

Ambassador Book Award

• Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (P.S.) by Robert Stone (Autobiography, 2008)

American Book Award

• Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon (2003)

APSA Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award

• Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin (2005)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)
• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2005)

The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (merit in the realm of books, Women's National Book Association)

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

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2002)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Book, 2001)
• Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price by Jonathan Cohn (Book, 2007)

Heartland Prize

• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (Non-Fiction, 2004)

International and US Councils of Woman Citation

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

IPPY

• Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America by William H. Colby (Aging/ Death & Dying, 2007)
• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (Religion, 2005)

Isaak Walton League Annual Founders Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2nd prize, 2004)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Current Interest, 2001)

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

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (5)

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

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (61)

National Book Award finalist

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Nonfiction, 1963)

New England Outdoor Writers Association Award for Distinguished Service

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

New York Times bestseller

• Race Matters by Cornel West (Nonfiction, 1993)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works by Newt Gingrich (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (2009, No. 91)

PEN/Martha Albrand Award

• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (2005)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated by Judith Rich Harris (General Non-Fiction, 1999)

Rod and Gun Editors of Metropolitan Manhattan Conservation Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)

The Schweitzer Medal

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Animal Welfare Institute)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Non-fiction (10), 2008)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (1997, No 78)