Awards in your library

Summary: 20 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (1968)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (Non-fiction, 1999)

Book Sense Book of the Year

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

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (Leadership)
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Power)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

IPPY Finalist

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Current Events, 2005)

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

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (7)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)

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

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (54)

National Book Award

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Award finalist

• Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett (Nonfiction, 1995)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (The Sciences, 1969)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (Biography/Autobiography, 1998)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Nonfiction, 1979)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (1968)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (1998)

New York Times bestseller

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (General, 1968)
• The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (2009)

Pulitzer Prize

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Non-Fiction, 1980)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett (General Non-Fiction, 1996)

Quill Award

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

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (Non-fiction (4), 1998)
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Non-fiction (10), 2008)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins (1997, No 91)