Awards in your library

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

• Confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
• Thus spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• I and Thou ; a new translation with a prologue "I and You" and notes by Martin Buber (1923)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Final exit : the practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying by Derek Humphry (29)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Final exit : the practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying by Derek Humphry (36)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)
• The fate of the earth by Jonathan Schell (1982)
• In the beginning : creation stories from around the world by Virginia Hamilton (1988)
• I dream a world : portraits of Black women who changed America by Brian Lanker (1990)
• The measure of our success : a letter to my children and yours by Marian Wright Edelman (1993)
• Amazing grace : the lives of children and the conscience of a nation by Jonathan Kozol (1997)
• Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)

ALA Notable Book of the Year

• The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride (1997)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• New and selected poems by Mary Oliver (Poetry, 1999)
• The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride (Biography, 1999)
• The measure of our success : a letter to my children and yours by Marian Wright Edelman (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The broken cord by Michael Dorris (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls by Mary Bray Pipher (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The souls of black folk by W. E. B. DuBois (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The illustrated world's religions : a guide to our wisdom traditions by Huston Smith (Humanities, 2004)
• Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis (History, 2004)
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride (Feel Good Books, 1998)

ALA Rainbow List

• And Tango makes three by Justin Richardson (Beginning Readers, 2008)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Awash in a sea of faith : Christianizing the American people by Jon Butler (1990)

Ambassador Book Award

• American sphinx : the character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography, 1998)

American Book Award

• Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations by Brian Ward (1999)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• Zen shorts by Jon J. Muth (2006)
• And Tango makes three by Justin Richardson (2006)
• The hello, goodbye window by Norton Juster 1929- (2006)
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni (2006)

American Library Association Top Ten Challenged Books 2006, 2007, 2008

• And Tango makes three by Justin Richardson

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride (1997)

Bancarella

• The Bible as history : archaeology confirms the Book of Books by Werner Keller (1957)

Bancroft Prize

• Southern cross : the beginnings of the Bible Belt by Christine Leigh Heyrman (1998)

BBC's Big Read

• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Best loved novel, 2003, No 125)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver ( Adult Winner, 2000)
• Zen shorts by Jon J. Muth ( Children's Illustrated Winner, 2006)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The varieties of religious experience, a study in human nature by William James

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (Non-Fiction, 1998)

Caldecott Honor

• Zen shorts by Jon J. Muth (2006)
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni (2006)

Caldecott Medal

• The hello, goodbye window by Norton Juster 1929- (2006)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Catechism of the Catholic Church by Catholic Church. (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• The screwtape letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• Confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Evangelicalism & the future of Christianity by Alister E. McGrath (No. 3, 1996)
• Genesis : a living conversation by Bill Moyers (No. 10, 1997, tie)
• American evangelicalism : embattled and thriving by Christian Smith (No. 11, 1999, tie)

Christopher Award

• The gifts of the Jews : how a tribe of desert nomads changed the way everyone thinks and feels by Thomas Cahill (1999)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

Coretta Scott King Award

• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni (Illustrator, 2006)

Coretta Scott King Honor

• Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes (Illustrator, 2007)

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

• The souls of black folk by W. E. B. DuBois

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

• The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission by Rick Warren (Christian Ministry, 1996)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2000)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Transgender warriors : making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul by Leslie Feinberg (Nonfiction, 1997)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography by Robert D. Richardson (1996)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis (2001)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• The culture of disbelief : how American law and politics trivialize religious devotion by Stephen L. Carter 1954- (1994)
• The Bible as it was by James L. Kugel (2001)

Green Earth Book Award

• Uno's garden by Graeme Base (2007)

Green Earth Book Award Honor

• The world that we want by Kim Michelle. Toft (2006)

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

• Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon by Douglas A. Blackmon (2008)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Alcoholics Anonymous : the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism
• The cost of discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Cosmos and history; the myth of the eternal return by Mircea Eliade
• The varieties of religious experience, a study in human nature by William James
• I and Thou ; a new translation with a prologue "I and You" and notes by Martin Buber
• The world's religions : our great wisdom traditions by Huston Smith
• Man's search for meaning; an introduction to logotherapy by Viktor Emil Frankl

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Amazing grace : the lives of children and the conscience of a nation by Jonathan Kozol (Book, 1995)
• Myth of the welfare queen : a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist's portrait of women on the line by David Zucchino (Book 1st Prize, 1997)

Heartland Prize

• The broken cord by Michael Dorris (Non-Fiction, 1990)
• Colored people : a memoir by Henry Louis Gates (Non-Fiction, 1994)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Amos & Boris by William Steig (1972)
• In the beginning : creation stories from around the world by Virginia Hamilton (1989)
• Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)

Hugo

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Related Book, 1981)

IPPY

• Where does God live? by August Gold 1955- (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2002)
• The end of faith : religion, terror, and the future of reason by Sam Harris 1967- (Religion, 2005)

James A. Rawley Prize

• Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations by Brian Ward (1999)

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Waldo Emerson : a biography by Gay Wilson Allen (1981)
• Mary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism : a family history by Phyllis Cole ( Honorable Mention)

Jefferson Cup

• Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• No constitutional right to be ladies : women and the obligations of citizenship by Linda K. Kerber (1999)

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