Awards in your library

Summary: 32 Awards.

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

• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire (1759)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE
• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)

And/Or Book Award

• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte (Moving Image, 1995)

BBC's Big Read

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (1988)

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

• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

English-Speaking Union Award

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)
• China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America by James Kynge (2006)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)

Guardian 1000

• Samarkand by Amin Maalouf (Love)
• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (State of the nation)
• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire (War and travel)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1981)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (41)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (Science and Technology, 1997)

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

• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (76)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (The Board's List, 90)
• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (The Reader's List, 100)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles) by Bob Dylan (Biography, 2004)
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Criticism, 1978)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1981)
• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (1989)
• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) by Steven Pinker (1994)
• Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles) by Bob Dylan (2004)

New York Times bestseller

• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (Fiction, 1989)
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (General, 1945)
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Buddha by Karen Armstrong (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles) by Bob Dylan (Nonfiction, 2004)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2009, No. 22)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Quill Award

• Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles) by Bob Dylan (Biography/Memoir, 2005)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (55)
• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (100)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) by Steven Pinker (General, 1995)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General, 1999)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1997, No 25)
• The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins (1997, No 91)

Whitbread

• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE (Novel, 1988)

Århundrets bibliotek

• The Satanic Verses by SALMAN RUSHDIE
• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie