Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (2006/2008/2010 Edition)

501 Must-Read Books

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (Modern Fiction)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (1988)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby (2007)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• Genome by Matt Ridley (2001)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2002)
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2005)
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt (2009)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

Amazon.com Best Books

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2001)
• A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (2002)
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)

Anthony Award

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (First Novel, 2009)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2005)

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (1988)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby (2007)

Barry Award

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (British Novel, 2009)

Barry Award nominee

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (British Crime Novel, 2009)

BBC's Big Read

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book

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

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)

Booklist. Top Ten Religious Book

• God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero

Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

• Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney (shortlist, 2008)

Booksellers Association Independent Booksellers' Book Prize Shortlist

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (2009)

British Book Award

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Crime Thriller of the Year, 2009)
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Literary Fiction, 2005)

Business Week Top Ten Books of the Year

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Christian Science Monitor Best Book

• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2008)
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Nonfiction, 2010)

Costa

• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo (Biography, 2009)

Costa Shortlist

• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo (Biography, 2009)

CWA Shortlist

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, 2008)

David Charters's Top 10 Books About Bankers

• Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis

Dolman Best Travel Book Shortlist

• Biała gorączka by Jacek Hugo-Bader (2012)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2003)

Euler Book Prize

• Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire (2007)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2008)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer by Fridtjof Nansen (011)

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award Shortlist

• Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (2005)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
• The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (2010)
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010)
• More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby (2010)
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (2010)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

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

forbes.com Top Ten Books of the Year

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Wall Street)

Gaylactic Spectrum Nominee

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Novel, 2005)

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2005)

Gerald Loeb Award

• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (2010)
• More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby (2011)

GetAbstract International Book Award

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)

Glass Key Award

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2006)

Globe and Mail Top 100 Book

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Business and Money, 2010)

Guardian 1000

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (Love)
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

Guardian First Book Award Longlist

• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Book, 2001)

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist

• Cmentarz w Pradze by Umberto Eco (2012)

Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ( Best Author Discovery Debut Honor Book, 2009)

IPPY

• Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman (Psychology/Mental Health, 2005)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Fiction, 2004)

Jolt Awards

• Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Andy Oram (2007)

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