Awards in your library

Summary: 32 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (2009, Ages 3↑)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez (1986)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold (Science & Technology, 2009)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Caldecott Medal

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1964)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Collected Poems by Czeslaw Miloz (Poetry, Silver, 1988)

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

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Norman Maclean

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (007)
• Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock (099)

Guardian 1000

• A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Comedy)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library) by Shunryu Suzuki
• Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1964)

John Burroughs Medal

• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold (1977)

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a by Julia Adeney Thomas (2002)

National Book Award

• Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez (Nonfiction, 1986)

National Book Award (Translation, 1971) Edward G. Seidensticker

• The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

National Book Award finalist

• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (History (Paperback), 1981)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez (General Nonfiction, 1986)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez (1986)

New York Times bestseller

• Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez (Nonfiction, 1986)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

• A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Multiple Votes)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx (2009, No. 30)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist

• A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981)

Prix des Amis du Monde Diplomatique

• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn

Pulitzer Prize

• A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Fiction, 1981)
• Turtle Island (A New Directions Book) by Gary Snyder (Poetry, 1975)

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

• The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) by Edward Abbey (1999)

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

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (1999)
• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold (1999)
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library) by Shunryu Suzuki (1999)
• Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez (1999)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx (2008)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1997, No 59)