Awards in your library

Summary: 40 Awards.

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

• Also sprach Zarathustra. by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• The worst-case scenario survival handbook by Joshua Piven (2001)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• The worst-case scenario survival handbook by Joshua Piven (2001)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan (1976)

Ambassador Book Award

• In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (Vintage) by Mary Beth Norton (American Studies, 2003)

Bancroft Prize

• Entertaining Satan : witchcraft and the culture of early New England by John Demos (1983)
• The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay (2003)
• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (2003)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2005)

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

Caroline Bancroft History Prize Honor

• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Nonfiction, Gold, 1998)
• American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA) by Alan Taylor (Nonfiction, Gold, 2001)

Cox Book Prize

• The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor (2007)

Duff Cooper Prize

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award

• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (2003)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• Antigone by Sophocles (Tragedy, 441 BCE)

Francis Parkman Prize

• American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan (1976)
• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (2003)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (honorable mention, 2004)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (honorable mention, 2005)

Frederick Douglass Prize

• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (Second Prize, 2003)

Frederick Jackson Turner Award

• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (2003)

George Washington Book Prize

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2005)

Guardian 1000

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)

John H. Dunning Prize

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

Lionel Gelber Prize

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

National Book Award finalist

• Entertaining Satan : witchcraft and the culture of early New England by John Demos (History (Hardcover), 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (General Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Biography, 2004)
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (General Nonfiction, 1989)
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (General Nonfiction, 1998)

NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

• Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedia Guide (Chaco Canyon Series) by R. Gwinn Vivian (2003)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1989)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2004)

New York Times bestseller

• A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (Nonfiction, 1991)
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes (Nonfiction, 1998)
• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Nonfiction, 2005)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Saemtliche Erzaehlungen by Franz Kafka
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2003)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (General Non-Fiction, 1990)
• Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter (History, 2002)

Salon Book Award

• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (2005)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes (1999)

Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award

• Tecumseh: A Life by John Sugden (1999)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Non-fiction (5), 2005)

W. Turrentine Jackson Prize

• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks (2002-2003)

Wolfson History Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2003)