Awards in your library

Summary: 29 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture by Marjane Satrapi (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito ( GLBTQ, 2006)

Andre Simon Award

• On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee (1986)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

Gourmand World Cookbook

• Pretty Party Cakes: Sweet and Stylish Cakes and Cookies for All Occasions by Peggy Porschen (Book for entertaining, 2005)

IACP Cookbook Award

• The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger (2009, finalist)

James Beard Foundation Award

• Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan (Baking and Dessert, 2007)
• Moosewood Cookbook by KATZEN (Cookbook Hall of Fame, 2007)
• Bouchon by Thomas Keller (Photography, 2005)
• On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee (Reference, 2005)

James Beard Foundation Award Healthy Focus Category

• The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger (2009)

James Beard Foundation Award Nominee

• How to Cook Everything (with CD-Rom) by Mark Bittman (2009)
• The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger (2009)
• Chocolate American Style by Lora Brody (Baking and Desserts, 2005)
• Bouchon by Thomas Keller (Cooking from a Profesional Point of View, 2005)
• Frank Stitt's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill by Frank Stitt (Cooking from a Profesional Point of View, 2005)
• The Professional Chef, Seventh Edition by Culinary Institute of America (Cooking from a Professional Point of View, 2007)
• CookSmart: Perfect Recipes for Every Day by Pamela Anderson (Entertaining and Special Occasions, 2006)

Kitchen Book Award: James Beard Foundation

• I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking by Alton Brown

KitchenAid Cookbook Hall of Fame

• Moosewood Cookbook by KATZEN (2007)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito (Gay Men's Debut Fiction, 2004)

Lulu Blooker Prize

• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell (Overall/Nonfiction, 2006)

Médicis

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Essai, 2007)

National Book Award

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Nonfiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Autobiography/Memoir, 2005)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

New York Times bestseller

• The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 2008)
• The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown (Fiction, 2003)
• In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) by Alexander Mccall Smith (Fiction, 2005)
• The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 8) by Alexander Mccall Smith (Fiction, 2007)
• The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child (General, 1968)
• Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts by Maida Heatter (General, 1981)
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Nonfiction, 2005)
• I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris (Nonfiction, 2006)

NPR's 10 Best Cookbooks

• How to Cook Everything (with CD-Rom) by Mark Bittman (2008)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan (2006)
• How to Cook Everything (with CD-Rom) by Mark Bittman (2008)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Biography or Autobiography, 2006)

Quill Award

• Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes by Rachael Ray (Cooking, 2005)
• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell (Debut Author of the Year, 2006)
• I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris (Humor, 2007)

SEBA Book Award

• The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cooks by Edna Lewis (Cookbook, 2004)
• Frank Stitt's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill by Frank Stitt (Cookbook, 2005)

SIBA Book Award

• I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris (Cookbook, 2007)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes by John Willoughby (Non-fiction (3), 2004)
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Non-fiction (4), 2005)

Today Show Book Club selection

• More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl (2005)

Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years

• The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown (2007, No 5)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition by Dan Brown (7)