Awards in your library

Summary: 23 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Jungle (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Upton Sinclair (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio (Science & Technology, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman ( Magic in the Real World, 2008)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama ( Change Your World, 2010)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman (#61)

American Book Award

• Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang (2005)

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)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Two Years Before The Mast - A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea by Richard Henry Dana Jr. (014)

Galaxy British Book Award

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama (2009, shortlist)

Guardian 1000

• The Jungle (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Upton Sinclair (State of the nation)

International Pythagoras Prize

• The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio

IPPY Bronze

• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson (Finance/Investment/Economics, 2007)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Roderigo Dos Passos (58.3)

National Book Award finalist

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) by Jane Jacobs (Nonfiction, 1962)

New England Historical Association Book Award

• Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain (1999)

New York Times bestseller

• The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader (Fiction, 1980)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford (Nonfiction, 2009)

Peano Prize

• The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist

• Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The: A Novel (P.S.) by Ron Hansen (1984)

Publishers Weekly's Best Books: 2009

• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Best Books: 2009

• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Jungle (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Upton Sinclair (45)

SF Site Editor's Choice

• Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (#1, 1997)

SF Site Reader's Choice

• Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (1998)