Awards in your library

Summary: 19 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Effondrement : Comment les sociétés décident de leur disparition ou de leur survie by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Books for a Better Life Award

• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (2008)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Effondrement : Comment les sociétés décident de leur disparition ou de leur survie by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (The Corporation)
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Strategy)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (Wall Street)

IPPY

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

Jolt Awards

• Object-Oriented Software Construction (Prentice-Hall International series in computer science) by Bertrand Meyer (1997)
• Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press) by Clemens Szyperski (1998)

National Book Award finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1987)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987)

New York Times bestseller

• The one minute manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard (General, 1982)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1988)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People by Jack Welch (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Effondrement : Comment les sociétés décident de leur disparition ou de leur survie by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The Long Tail : Why the Future Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Le temps des turbulences by Alan Greenspan (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Outliers : the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr (2009)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General Non-Fiction, 1988)

Quill Award

• Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner (Business, 2005)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball (General, 2005)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball (2005)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (General, 1989)
• Effondrement : Comment les sociétés décident de leur disparition ou de leur survie by Jared Diamond (General, 2006)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Outliers : the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell (Non-fiction (10), 2008)