Awards in your library

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

• The Iliad by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Never To Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer (1976)
• Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager (1985)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Hiroshima by John Hersey (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (History, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

Ambassador Book Award

• The House of Morgan. An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (Biography/Autobiography, 1991)
• Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (American Studies, 2000)
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (Current Affairs, 2007)

American Book Award

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (2005)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (Gold medal, 2005)
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (Honorable mention, 2007)

Arthur Ross Book Award Shortlist

• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2007)

Bancarella

• The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan (1962)

Bancroft Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

BBC's Big Read

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2007) Stanley Lombardo translation

• The Iliad by Homer

Book Sense Book of the Year

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

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff (2000)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Caesar and Christ by Will Durant (Nonfiction, Gold, 1944)
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (Nonfiction, Gold, 1999)
• The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant (Nonfiction, Silver, 1975)

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

• Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace (1999)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead (1956)
• Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money by James Buchan (1997)
• Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2003)

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

• Faith Despite the KGB by Hermann Hartfeld (Biography/Autobiography, 1981)

Edgar Award

• The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey (Fact Crime, 1980)
• The Vatican Connection by Richard Hammer (Fact Crime, 1983)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Implosion Conspiracy by Louis Nizer (Fact Crime, 1974)
• The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel (Fact Crime, 1976)
• Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring by Pete Earley (Fact Crime, 1989)

Elizabeth Longford Prize

• Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War by Ian Kershaw (2005)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence (024)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (Booms and Busts)
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin (Globalization)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941 by Theodore A. Wilson (1970)
• Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (2000)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (2009, shortlist)

General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award

• The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power by Max Boot (2003)

Gladstone History Book Award

• Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders (1999)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Gauntlet to Overlord: The Story of the Canadian Army by Ross Munro (Non-fiction, 1945)

Guardian 1000

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Markings by Dag Hammarskjold

Hawthornden Prize

• The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne (1963)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Partners: The United Nations and Youth by Eleanor Roosevelt (1951)
• Never To Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer (1977)

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

• The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle (2007)

IPPY

• The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson (Current Events, 2003)

IPPY Finalist

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

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1886)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster (1997)
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2004)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (Biography, 1983)
• Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider (Current Interest, 1988)
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Current Interest, 1994)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (History, 1999)
• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (History, 2002)
• Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower (History, 2008)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1968)

Minnesota Book Awards

• The History of Money by Jack Weatherford ( NonFiction, 1998)

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

• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (16)
• A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee (45)
• The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (46)
• Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson (47)
• The House of Morgan. An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (62)

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