Awards in your library

Summary: 11 Awards.

100 Essential New England Books

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Boston Globe, #4)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1971)
• A time to be born by David Bell (1975)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• What Color Is Your Parachute? 1997: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles (Social Sciences, 2009)

Guardian 1000

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Family and self)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (21)

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

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (75)

National Book Award finalist

• Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient by Norman Cousins (General Nonfiction (Paperback), 1982)

New York Times bestseller

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Fiction, 1971)
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (General, 1959)
• The silent passage : menopause by Gail Sheehy (Nonfiction, 1992)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Crazy : a father's search through America's mental health madness by Pete Earley (General Non-Fiction, 2007)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1997, No 57)