Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006 Edition)
• The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald (2006 edition)
• Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes by Elizabeth Bowen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary. Backgrounds and sources; essays in criticism by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• 2666 - 3-Volume Boxed Set: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel by Marina Lewycka (2008 edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Fiction, 1999)
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Book of Salt: A Novel by Monique Truong (2004)

Alex Award

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (2007)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (#19)
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories by Wells Tower (#25)

American Library Association - Notable Books for Adults - Fiction

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

BBC's Big Read

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Best loved novel, 2003, No 11)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel by Marina Lewycka (2005)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)
• The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake ( Rediscovery Honor Book, 2003)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Adult Fiction Winner, 2007)
• Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2008)

Booker Prize Longlist

• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel by Marina Lewycka (2005)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes by Elizabeth Bowen (1970)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)

Bram Stoker Award

• Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis (First Novel, 1997)

British Book Award

• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel by Marina Lewycka (Newcomer of the Year, 2006)

British Book Awards Author of the Year Shortlist

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Telex from Cuba: A Novel by Rachel Kushner (First Fiction, Gold, 2008)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Best Book, Eurasia Region, 2006)

Costa Shortlist

• Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager (Biography, 2008)

Emperor Norton Award

• Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (2009)

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

Franz Kafka Prize

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Great Lakes Book Award

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Fiction, 2007)

Guardian 1000

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Comedy)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Madame Bovary. Backgrounds and sources; essays in criticism by Gustave Flaubert (Love)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Love)
• Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said (Love)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics) by G.K. Chesterton (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award Finalist

• Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (2009)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Shortlist, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes by Elizabeth Bowen (Fiction, 1969)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager (Biography, 2008)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Fiction, 2005)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer (1974)

Lambda Literary Award

• February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America by Sherill Tippins (Biography, 2005)
• Naked by David Sedaris (Humor, 1997)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• The Book of Salt: A Novel by Monique Truong (Gay Men's Fiction, 2003)
• A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill (Gay Men's Poetry, 1995)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (29)

Libraires

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2007)

Libraires du Québec

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2007)

Lillian Smith Award

• Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell (1978)

Locus Nominee

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (SF Novel, 2006)

Locus Recommended Reading

• Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (First Novel, 2008)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Science Fiction Novel, 2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem by James Merrill (Poetry, 1983)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager (Biography, 2008)

LOST Book Club

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Maggie Award

• Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (The Board's List, 7)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Quarterfinalist, 2006)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Quarterfinalist, 2006)

National Book Award

• Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett (Fiction, 1996)

National Book Award finalist

• Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell (1978)
• Collected Stories, 1939-1976 by Paul Frederic Bowles (Fiction (Paperback), 1980)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Fiction, 1962)
• Telex from Cuba: A Novel by Rachel Kushner (Fiction, 2008)
• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy (Nonfiction, 1958)
• Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier (Nonfiction, 1999)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• 2666 - 3-Volume Boxed Set: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (Fiction, 2008)
• The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem by James Merrill (Poetry, 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene Walter (Biography/Autobiography, 2001)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Fiction, 2005)
• A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill (Poetry, 1995)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Plenty by David Hare (American Play, 1982-1983)

New York Public Library's Books to Remember list

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard (1987)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2005)
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)
• 2666 - 3-Volume Boxed Set: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008)

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