Awards in your library

Summary: 24 Awards.

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

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (1987)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (1988)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Bag the Elephant!: How to Win and Keep Big Customers by Steve Kaplan (Business, 2006)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (Nonfiction, Silver, 1987)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman (Economics)
• Leading Quietly by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (Ethics)
• The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker (Negotiating & Managing)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (Wall Street)

Guardian 1000

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

IPPY

• Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel (Business/Career, 2001)
• God without Religion: Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths by Sankara Saranam (Religion, 2006)

IPPY Finalist

• Bag the Elephant!: How to Win and Keep Big Customers by Steve Kaplan (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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

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

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (The Reader's List, 73)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (General Nonfiction, 1987)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

New York Times bestseller

• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman (Nonfiction, 1995)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life by Bill O'Reilly (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard by George Anders (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Nonfiction, 2005)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

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

Quill Award

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (Business, 2005)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General, 1999)

San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Nonfiction of the American West

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (1999)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (2008)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (1997, No 68)