Awards in your library

Summary: 39 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• In Suspect Terrain by John McPhee (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (History, 2004)
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (Science & Technology, 2009)

Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2007)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

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

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Dolman Best Travel Book Shortlist

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2008)

Duff Cooper Prize

• The Peregrine (New York Review Books Classics) by J.A. Baker (1967)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (007)

Guardian 1000

• Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household (Crime)

Guardian First Book Award

• Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit by Robert Macfarlane (2003)

John Burroughs Medal

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (1977)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban (General Nonfiction, 1996)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Coming into the Country by John McPhee (General Nonfiction, 1977)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Coming into the Country by John McPhee (1977)
• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban (1996)

New York Times bestseller

• Coming into the Country by John McPhee (General, 1978)
• Great Plains by Ian Frazier (Nonfiction, 1989)
• Assembling California by John McPhee (Nonfiction, 1993)
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (Paperback Nonfiction, 2001)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from "Edison" to "Google" by N Carr (2009)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (2003)

Ondaatje Prize Shortlist

• Findings by Kathleen Jamie (2006)

Orion Book Award

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2009, finalist)

Phi Beta Kappa Award

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Science, 1997)

Pulitzer Prize

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (General Non-Fiction, 1998)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Basin and Range by John McPhee (General Non-Fiction, 1982)
• Rising From The Plains by John McPhee (General Non-Fiction, 1987)

Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

• Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household (15)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (General, 1998)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1998)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction

• Leviathan by Philip Hoare (2009)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• In Crow Country by Mark Cocker (2008)
• Leviathan by Philip Hoare (2009)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (2003)

Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Shortlist

• Findings by Kathleen Jamie (2006)

Somerset Maugham Award

• Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit by Robert Macfarlane (2004)

South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature

• London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (2001)

Spur Award

• Great Plains by Ian Frazier (Nonfiction, 1989)

Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

• Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America by Jonathan Raban (1991)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (Non-fiction (5), 2003)

Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association

• Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household (14)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

• Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household (55)

Warwick Prize for Writing

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2009, longlist)

Whitbread Shortlist

• Nature Cure by Richard Mabey (Biography, 2005)