Awards in your library

Summary: 20 Awards.

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

• Canon of Reason and Virtue: (Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King) Chinese and English by Lao-Tzu (3rd century BCE)
• The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran (252 BCE)
• Meditations (Penguin 60s) by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (167)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach ( Books for the Soul, 1997)

BBC's Big Read

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (Best loved novel, 2003, No 179)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) by The Dalai Lama

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen (012)
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (020)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series by D.T. Suzuki
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library) by Shunryu Suzuki
• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Paul Reps
• Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists (Queer Dharma) by Winston Leyland (Spirituality/Religion, 1997)

Libraires du Québec

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2001)

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

• The White Goddess by Robert Graves (59)

Médicis

• Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera (Étranger, 1973)

National Book Award

• The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen (Contemporary Thought, 1979)
• The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav (Science (Paperback), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen (General Nonfiction, 1978)

New York Times bestseller

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (Fiction, 1972)
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (General, 1954)
• When I Say No, I Feel Guilty (General, 1975)

The New Yorker Best Debut of the Year

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

PEN/Hemingway Award

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

Pulitzer Prize

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, 2000)

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

• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library) by Shunryu Suzuki (1999)

Scott Moncrieff prize

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie (2002)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (2008)