Awards in your library

Summary: 63 Awards. Page: [1] 2

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

• The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favored races in the struggle for life by Charles Darwin (1859)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (Classic, 60s) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006 Edition)
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (2009, No 685, Age 8 and over)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Children's, 1999)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (1999)
• Cut by Patricia Mccormick (2002)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (1999)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory ( What Ails you?, 2006)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Cut by Patricia Mccormick (2001)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• Cut by Patricia Mccormick (2001)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999)

Arizona Young Readers' Award Nominee

• Cut by Patricia Mccormick (2005)

BBC's Big Read

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 22)

Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (1997)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2001)

Books with Bite: Teen Read Week 2008

• Those Left Behind (Serenity) by Joss Whedon (Frost Bite)

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda V. Wilcox (Non-Fiction, 2005)

British Book Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Children's Book of the Year, 1998)

Carnegie Medal Shortlist

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (1997)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

FCBG Children's Book Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Overall winner and Longer Novel Category, 1997)

Gateway Book List

• Cut by Patricia Mccormick (2002-2003)

Guardian 1000

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

Herbert Feis Award

• The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the Histor by Rachel P. Maines (1999)

International IMPAC Dublin

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Shortlist, 2000)

Isinglass Teen Reads Award Winner

• Cut by Patricia Mccormick (2004)

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( Honorable Mention)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Gay Men's Fiction, 1998)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling

LOST Book Club

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling

Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars

• The Culture of Pain by David B. Morris ( Honorable Mention)

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

• The elements of style by William Strunk (21)

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

• The elements of style by William Strunk (75)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Children’s Literature, 2008)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award

• The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition by Tom Shippey (Inklings Studies, 1984)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Fiction, 1998)

Nestlé Smarties Book Prize

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Gold Award, 9-11 years category, 1997)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker (1994)
• Life by R.A. Fortey (1998)
• Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions) by Seamus Heaney (Seamus Heaney translation, 2000)

New York Times bestseller

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Fiction, 1998)
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Fiction, 1999)
• Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions) by Seamus Heaney (Fiction, 2000)
• The elements of style by William Strunk (General, 1959)
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison (Nonfiction, 1995)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favored races in the struggle for life by Charles Darwin (2009, No. 27)

Parenting Book of the Year Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (1998)

PEN/Faulkner Award

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999)

Phi Beta Kappa Award

• Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond (Science, 1997)

Publisher's Weekly Best Book

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (1998)

Publishing Triangle

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Male, 1999)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Fiction, 1999)
• Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (General Non-Fiction, 1990)

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (2001)

Red House Children's Book Award

• Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Band 1) by Joanne K. Rowling (Overall, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (General, 1991)
• Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond (General, 1998)

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