Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Hard times for these times by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Cat and Mouse (Danzig) by Gunter Grass (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy) by Pat Barker (2006/2008 Edition)
• If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (2006/2008 Edition)
• Regeneration by Pat Barker (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (2006/2008 Edition)
• The adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bleak house by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• The once and future king by T. H. White (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great expectations by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (2006/2008 Edition)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The once and future king by T. H. White (6)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1998, 12)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek (creative writing)
• The Struggle for Mozambique by Eduardo Mondlane (scholarship/non-fiction)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• An African season by Leonard Levitt (1967)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Civilization by Kenneth Clarke (Non-fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton ( Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

Alan Paton Award

• Mandela : the authorised biography by Anthony Sampson (2000)

Ambassador Book Award

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks (Current Affairs, 2007)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Caine mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951)
• Sword of honour by Evelyn Waugh (1952)
• The once and future king by T. H. White (1958)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks (Honorable mention, 2007)

Bancarella

• The last of the just by André Schwarz-Bart (1961)

Barry Award nominee

• Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James (British Crime Novel, 2002)

BBC's Big Read

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• Great expectations by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 47)
• Bleak house by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
• The adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 182)
• The once and future king by T. H. White (Best loved novel, 2003, No 198)

Booker Prize

• The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy) by Pat Barker (1995)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Apologia pro vita sua by John Henry Newman, Cardinal (Holy Men and Women)
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• The problem of pain by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• By the renewing of your minds : the pastoral function of Christian doctrine by Ellen T. Charry (No. 4, 1999, tie)

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

• Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

• The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren (Christian Ministry, 1996)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (020)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The way we live now by Anthony Trollope (Ethics)

Goncourt

• The last of the just by André Schwarz-Bart (1959)

Guardian 1000

• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (Comedy)
• England Their England by A G Macdonnell (Comedy)
• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (Comedy)
• The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (Comedy)
• Great expectations by Charles Dickens (Family and self)
• Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Love)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Love)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (State of the nation)
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (State of the nation)
• The adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• The way we live now by Anthony Trollope (State of the nation)
• Hard times for these times by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• Bleak house by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (State of the nation)
• Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, wholesale, retail and for exportation by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• The Caine mutiny by Herman Wouk (War and travel)
• Regeneration by Pat Barker (War and travel)
• Death of a hero by Richard Aldington (War and travel)

Guardian Fiction Prize

• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (1993)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• The mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (3)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The cost of discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• England Their England by A G Macdonnell (Fiction, 1933)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Mandela : the authorised biography by Anthony Sampson (Biography, 1999)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• The mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (1870)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks (2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• How the mind works by Steven Pinker (Science and Technology, 1997)

LOST Book Club

• Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens
• A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens

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

• Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves (41)
• The Great War and modern memory by Paul Fussell (75)
• The Face of Battle by John Keegan (81)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (The Board's List, 59)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award

• The Inklings C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends by Humphrey Carpenter (Inklings Studies, 1982)
• Jack: Life of C.S. Lewis by George Sayer (Inklings Studies, 1991)

National Book Award

• The Great War and modern memory by Paul Fussell (Arts and Letters, 1976)

National Book Award finalist

• The Caine mutiny by Herman Wouk (Fiction, 1952)
• Inside Africa. [With an endpaper map.] by John Gunther (Nonfiction, 1956)
• The helper by Catherine Marshall (Religion/Inspiration (Paperback), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Great War and modern memory by Paul Fussell (Criticism, 1975)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• How the mind works by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Regeneration by Pat Barker (1992)
• Language instinct : the new science of language and mind by Steven Pinker (1994)
• Life: An Unathorised Biography by Richard Fortey (1998)

New York Times bestseller

• Mistress Marsham's repose by T. H. White (Fiction, 1946)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Fiction, 1948)
• The Caine mutiny by Herman Wouk (Fiction, 1951)
• The once and future king by T. H. White (Fiction, 1958)
• The last of the just by André Schwarz-Bart (Fiction, 1960)
• The Third World War August 1985 : a future history by John Hackett, Sir (Fiction, 1979)
• Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James (Fiction, 2001)
• The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell (Fiction, 2005)
• Venture into the Interior by Laurens van der Post (General, 1952)
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (General, 1954)
• Inside Africa. [With an endpaper map.] by John Gunther (General, 1955)
• Surprised by Joy by C S Lewis (General, 1956)
• The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley (General, 1959)
• Civilization by Kenneth Clarke (General, 1969)
• A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan (General, 1974)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Regeneration by Pat Barker (2009)
• The way we live now by Anthony Trollope (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2009, No. 9)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (2009, No. 76)
• Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves (2009, No. 94)

Northern Electric Special Arts Prize

• The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (1994)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Great expectations by Charles Dickens

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The way we live now by Anthony Trollope (2003)
• The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (2003)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (2006)

Orange Prize Longlist

• The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy) by Pat Barker (1996)

Outer Critics Circle Award

• The Caine mutiny by Herman Wouk (Play, 1953-1954)

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