Awards in your library

Summary: 47 Awards.

Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (1967)
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (1972)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Fiction, 1999)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Social Sciences, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Books for the Soul, 1997)

Alex Award

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2004)

Arthur Ross Book Award

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Gold medal, 2008)

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

BBC's Big Read

The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 09)
Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 114)

Best Books 2006 Awards Finalist (Lombardo, Unabridged Audio) Parmenides Publishing

The Odyssey by Homer by Homer

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees by Peter Kreeft (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
Saint Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton (Holy Men and Women)
Don Quixote (Unabridged Version of Walter Starkie Translation) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila (Spiritual Classics)
The Confessions (Everyman's Library) by St. Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. (History/Biography, 2003)
The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog by James W. Sire (No. 12, 1998, tie)

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version, Compact TruTone Edition (Tan Diamond Design, Red Letter) (Bibles, 2002)
Emotionally Healthy Church, The by Peter Scazzero (Christian Ministry, 2004)

Edward Lewis Wallant Award

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (1967)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ( co-recipient)

Guardian 1000

Don Quixote (Unabridged Version of Walter Starkie Translation) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Comedy)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz (Family and self)
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (Family and self)
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (State of the nation)
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (State of the nation)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (State of the nation)
Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

The Chronicles of Narnia Book 2: Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (1952)

Lionel Gelber Prize

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2008)

LOST Book Club

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Meilleur Livre Étranger

Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1969)

National Book Award finalist

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Fiction, 1968)
The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (Translation, 1968)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1970)

New York Times bestseller

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Troubled Sleep by Jean Paul Sartre (Fiction, 1951)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Fiction, 1967)
Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1970)
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (Fiction, 1972)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis (General, 1956)
The Little Red Book - Quotations from Mao Tse-tung by Mao Tse-tung (General, 1967)
Fatherhood by William H. Cosby Jr. (Nonfiction, 1986)
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (Nonfiction, 2005)
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis (Nonfiction, 2005)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (2009, No. 8)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2009, No. 14)
Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2009, No. 17)
The Confessions (Everyman's Library) by St. Augustine (2009, No. 32)
The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (2009, No. 37)
The Little Red Book - Quotations from Mao Tse-tung by Mao Tse-tung (2009, No. 88)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

Don Quixote (Unabridged Version of Walter Starkie Translation) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2003)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2003)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003)
Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1991)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Novel, 1969)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (70)

Reading Across Rhode Island

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2005)

Recommended by the Book Society

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis (1955)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates (Winner, 1983)

Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (3)

Rómulo Gallegos

Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1972)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (2008)
The Confessions (Everyman's Library) by St. Augustine (2008)
Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2008)
The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

The Odyssey by Homer by Homer ([trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

Waterstones Books of the Century

Cien anos de soledad/ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1997, No 8)
The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1997, No 21)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1997, No 89)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1997, No 3)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

Århundrets bibliotek

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