Awards in your library

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100 Essential New England Books

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Boston Globe, #3)

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

• The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics) by Desiderius Erasmus (1509)
• Common Sense (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Paine (1776)
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
• Quotations from chairman Mao Tse-tung by Zedong Mao (1966)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Aesop's Fables (Complete and Unabridged Classics) by Aesop (2006 Edition)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ivanhoe a Bancroft Classic (A Bancroft Classic) by Walter Scott (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre (2006/2008 Edition)
• Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 467, Age 8 and over)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One) by J.R.R. Tokien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)
• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (2009, Age 0-3)
• GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Aesop's Fables (Complete and Unabridged Classics) by Aesop (2009, Ages 8↑)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2)
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (20)

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

• The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse (1956)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (83)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (84)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (1968)
• Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle; Illustrator-Jody A. Lee (1987)
• Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl (Biography, 1999)
• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl (Lock it, Lick it, Click it: Diaries, Letters and Email, 2003)

ALS Gold Medal

• A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice by James Cowan (1998)

American Book Award

• The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction (1989)
• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (A Back Bay Book) by Ronald Takaki (1994)

Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1986)

Bancroft Prize

• Soviet-American relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan (1957)
• Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution (Galaxy Books) by N. Gordon Levin Jr. (1969)
• The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947 by John Lewis Gaddis (1973)
• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics) by Thomas J. Sugrue (1998)

BBC's Big Read

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 25)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Best loved novel, 2003, No 51)
• Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)

BILBY

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 1997)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid by Virgil
• The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

Caldecott Medal

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (1942)

Carl Sandburg Award

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Juvenile, Silver, 1969)
• A History of Russia by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky (Nonfiction, Gold, 1963)
• France, Fin de Siècle (Studies in Cultural History) by Eugen Weber (Nonfiction, Gold, 1986)
• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki (Nonfiction, Gold, 1989)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber (Nonfiction, Silver, 1976)

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

• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh

CWA

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre (Gold Dagger, 1963)

CWA Gold Dagger

• Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler (1959)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre (1963)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace (1999)

Edgar Award

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre (Novel, 1965)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia by Jack Tracy (Critical / Biographical, 1978)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Kon Tiki by Heyerdahl (017)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crises by Robert F. Kennedy (Decision-Making)
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter (Economics)
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)
• The Art of War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Sun Tzu (Strategy)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Truman by David McCullough (1993)

The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order

• After Hegemony. Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy. by Robert O. Keohane (1989)
• The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series, Vol 4) by Samuel P. Huntington (1992)

Guardian 1000

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre (Crime)
• Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Love)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (State of the nation)
• Ivanhoe a Bancroft Classic (A Bancroft Classic) by Walter Scott (War and travel)

H. L. Mencken Award

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1983)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1938)
• By The Shores of Silver Lake by Pictures Garth Williams Laura Ingalls Wilder (1939)
• The road to Agra by Aimée Sommerfelt (1962)
• Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (1967)
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor (1970)

IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre

Iowa Teen Award Nominee

• The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander (1988-1989)

IPPY

• The Art of War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

• The Cay by Theodore Taylor (1970)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Truman by David McCullough (1992)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (Biography, 1983)
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 2002)

LOST Book Club

• Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell (2007)

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

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (7)
• Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (16)
• Present at the creation; my years in the State Department by Dean Acheson (47)

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

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (54)

National Book Award

• A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET by Madeleine L'ENGLE (Children's Books (Paperback), 1980)
• Soviet-American relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan (Nonfiction, 1957)
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Nonfiction, 2002)
• The Aeneid by Virgil (Translation, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1983)
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore, JR. (History and Biography, 1967)
• The Limits of Intervention by Townsend Hoopes (History and Biography, 1970)
• Present at the creation; my years in the State Department by Dean Acheson (History and Biography, 1970)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (The Sciences, 1969)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Years Of Lyndon Johnson - Means Of Ascent by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 1990)
• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (General Nonfiction, 1982)
• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (General Nonfiction, 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (General Nonfiction, 1996)

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