Awards in your library

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

• Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)
• The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx (1848)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas (2008 Edition)
• The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2008 edition)

1952 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (7)
• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (10)

1956 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (3)
• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (22)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (1)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin (3)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (4)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr. (5)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (24)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (33)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (1)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin (2)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (5)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr. (7)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (20)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2004, 72)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (23)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (22)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2003)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Fiction, 1999)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen (History, 2004)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (What Makes a Family?, 2008)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (Between Men--Between Women) by Lillian Faderman (1992)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature

• The Confession of Augustine (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Jean-Francois Lyotard (1999-2000)

Alex Award

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2004)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (2006)

American Book Award

• Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by Bell Hooks (1991)
• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway (1992)
• The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness by Paul Gilroy (1994)
• Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture) by Tricia Rose (1996)
• The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century by Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1997)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2003)

Apollo Award

• The Embedding by Ian Watson (1975)

Archbishop San Clemente del Instituto Rosalia de Castro Prize

• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali (Best Foreign Language Fiction Published in Spain, 1994)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• He, She and It by Marge Piercy (1993)
• Iron Council by China Mieville (2005)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)
• A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge (2000)
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2003)
• The Scar by China Mieville (2003)
• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2006)

Bancroft Prize

• Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968)
• The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood (1970)

BBC's Big Read

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Best loved novel, 2003, No 39)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)

Betty Trask Award

• Tipping the Velvet: A Novel by Sarah Waters (1999)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2004)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booklist Editors'Choice

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2002)

British Book Award

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Popular Fiction Award, 2006)

British Fantasy Award

• The Scar by China Mieville (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2003)

British Science Fiction Association Award

• Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson (Novel, 1992)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• The Difference Engine (Spectra Special Editions) by William Gibson (1990)
• The Scar by China Mieville (2002)
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2002)
• Accelerando by Charles Stross (2005)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (Literary Classics)

Christopher Award

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (2006)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• SPECTATOR BIRD by Wallace Stegner (Fiction, Silver, 1976)

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

• The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois

Ditmar Shortlist

• Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (International Fiction, 1989)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2005)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein (Self Improvement, 1999)
• Pirate Utopias by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Special Recognition/Wildcard Categories, 1996)
• Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America by Constance Penley (Special Recognition/Wildcard Categories, 1998)

Florida Teens Read

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (2007-2008)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

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

Francis Parkman Prize

• That wilder image; the painting of America's native school from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer by James Thomas Flexner (1963)

Gaylactic Spectrum

• The Female Man by Joanna Russ (Hall of Fame, 2002)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hall of Fame, 2003)

Gaylactic Spectrum Nominee

• The Female Man by Joanna Russ (Hall of Fame, 1999)
• Dryland's End (Southern Tier Editions) by Felice Picano (Hall of Fame, 2001)
• A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge (Novel, 2000)
• Iron Council by China Mieville (Novel, 2005)
• Fledgling: A Novel by Octavia E. Butler (Novel, 2006)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

• The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hall of Fame, 2001)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Fiction, 2004)

Guardian 1000

• Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (Comedy)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Scar by China Mieville (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• Captain Blood: His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini (War and travel)

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

• Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar (2001)

Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies

• In the Realm of the Diamond Queen by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (1994)

Herbert Hoover Book Award

• Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics by Daniel Hurewitz (2007)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1963)

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