Book Awards for RayAstbury
Awards given to books in RayAstbury's library
Summary: 166 Awards and Honors
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar
- Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll: Fourth Edition by Greil Marcus (2021)
- Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick (2021)
- The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (2021)
100 Best Novels in English Since 1900
100 Books That Shaped World History
100 Must-Read Classics By Women
100 Must-Read Memoirs by Bookriot
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
- Dust Tracks On a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
1000 Books to Read Before You Die
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll: Fourth Edition by Greil Marcus
- The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Penguin Classics) by Booker T. Washington
1001 boeken die je gelezen moet hebben!
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (editie 2017)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (editie 2017)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
125 Great Southern Books
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
- Dust Tracks On a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (8)
- Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Penguin Classics) by Booker T. Washington (21)
365 Books by Women Authors
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (19)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (147)
40 Works of Fiction Are Must-Reads
50 States of Literature
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Arkansas)
500 Great Books by Women
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Conflicting Cultures)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Growing Up)
500 Must Read Books
501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Memoirs)
52 best autobiographies & biographies of all time
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (The best inspiring autobiographies and biographies)
55 Nonfiction Books to Read in a Lifetime
The A.V. Club best books
ABA Journal 25 Greatest Law Novels Ever
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009
ALA Most Frequently Challenged Books
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1990-2004, 2006-2008, 2010, 2017)
ALA Notable Government Documents
- The African-American mosaic: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture by Library of Congress (1994)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Biography – 1999)
- The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon (Non-fiction – 1999)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Biography – 1999)
- Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America by Mark Kurlansky (Arts and Humanities)
- The souls of black folk : Essays and sketches by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (Non-fiction – 1999)
- STOMPING THE BLUES. by Albert. Murray (Non-fiction – 1999)
Alan P. Merriam Prize
- Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet (American Musicspheres) by Gage Averill (2004)
Amazon's Best Books of the Month
Amazon.com Best Books
- The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli (History – 2016)
- Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (Biographies & Memoirs – 2016)
American Book Award
- Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis (1998)
- I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues by Jeff Hannusch (1986)
- Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm And Blues, Black Consciousness And Race Relations by Brian Ward (1999)
- Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks (2022)
- Lost Highway : Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicans by Peter Guralnick (1983)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
- Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (Longlist – Nonfiction – 2017)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year
- Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story (Music in American Life) by Wayne Everett Goins (Non-Fiction – 2014)
- Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (The Sparkling Story of Broadway's Black History Heartbreaks and Triumph) by Caseen Gaines (Non-Fiction – 2021)
- Isn't Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music by Cheryl Wills (Non-Fiction – 2022)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Nonfiction – 1962)
- Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake (Nonfiction – 1946)
- Dust Tracks On a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (Nonfiction – 1943)
- Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson (Nonfiction – 2007)
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing
- 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story by Sean Wilentz (2013)
- The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazzman by Ron Carter (1972)
- Backbeat : Earl Palmer's story by Tony Scherman (2000)
- The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience (Music in American Life) by Stephen Wade (2013)
- Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll by Rick Coleman (Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography – 2007)
- Brotherhood In Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers by Constance V Hill (2001)
- Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song by Ted Anthony (2008)
- Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America by Andrew Ward (2001)
- The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George (1989)
- Deep Blues: A Musical And Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer (1982)
- Early Downhome Blues by Jeff Todd Titon (1978)
- The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations by Anthony Heilbut (2013)
- Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One by Rickey Vincent (1997)
- Got to tell it; Mahalia Jackson, queen of gospel. by Jules Schwerin (1993)
- Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars by William A. Shack (Special Recognition – 2002)
- Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen (1991)
- Honkers and Shouters - The golden years of rhythm & blues by Arnold Shaw (1979)
- John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography by John Hammond (1978)
- JUST BEFORE JAZZ by Thomas Laurence Riis (1995)
- The Kingdom of Zydeco by Michael Tisserand (1999)
- The Language of the Blues: from Alcorub to Zuru by Debra Desalvo (2007)
- The Life and Legend of Leadbelly by Charles K. Wolfe (1993)
- A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe by Reid Badger (1996)
- LONG STEEL RAIL (Music in American Life) by Norm Cohen (1982)
- Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks (2005)
- Lying up a nation : race and Black music by Ronald Michael. Radano (2004)
- Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll (Enterprise) by Rich Cohen (Special Recognition – 2006)
- Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records by Peter D. Goldsmith (1999)
- The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern (1972)
- Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians by Lawrence Cohn (1994)
- The Pied Pipers of Rock 'N' Roll: Radio Deejays of the 50s and 60s by Wes Smith (1990)
- Red River Blues (Macmillan Popular Music Series) by Bruce Bastin (1987)
- Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music by Benjamin Filene (2001)
- The Roots of the Blues: An African Search (Roots of the Blues CL) by Samuel Barclay Charters (1983)
- I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman by Mance Lipscomb (1994)
- Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story Of Stax Records by Rob Bowman (1998)
- Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 by David A. Jasen (1999)
- STOMPING THE BLUES. by Albert. Murray (1977)
- The Voice of the Blues : Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine by Jim O'Neal (Special Recognition – 2003)
- When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy (Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography – 2013)
- Where Did Our Love Go? The rise & fall of the Motown sound by Nelson George (1986)
- White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd (2007)
ASCAP-Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award
Audie Award
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Finalist – Classic – 2014)
- Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston (Finalist – Multi-Voiced Performance – 2003)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Finalist – Classic – 2012)
- Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown (Finalist – Biography/Memoir – 2008)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Finalist – Classic, Fiction – 2001)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Winner – Solo Narration – Female – 2001)
Bancroft Prize
BCALA Literary Awards
- Isn't Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music by Cheryl Wills (Winner – Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation – 2023)
The Best Children's Books of the Year
- Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music by Hettie Jones (For Older Boys and Girls Ages Nine Up—Biography – 1974)
Best Fiction for Young Adults
- Brown Sugar (A Da Capo Paperback) by Donald Bogle (Selection – 1980)
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Selection – 1969)
- Gather Together in My Name (Virago Paperback Original) by Maya Angelou (Selection – 1974)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Selection – 1970)
- Nowhere to Run: Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey (Selection – 1984)
- Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Chr by Maya Angelou (Selection – 1976)
- The world of soul; Black America's contribution to the pop music scene by Arnold Shaw (Selection – 1970)
Book-Across-the-Sea
- Bricktop by Bricktop w/Jim Haskins (1983)
BookDepository's 100 Best Books Ever
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books
- The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll by Preston Lauterbach (Arts and Literature – 2011)
- Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald (Arts and Literature – 2004)
- Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (Biography – 2016)
- Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick (Biography – 2015)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth
- The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon (1997)
- A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta by Norman Mauskopf (1997)
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Reference Sources
Boston Globe Best Book
- Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (Nonfiction – 2016)
Boston Globe Summer Reading Selection
- Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks (2021)
Brooklyn Magazine's Literary United States
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Arkansas)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Florida)
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize
- Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (Shortlist – Nonfiction – 2016)
BuzzFeed Best Books
- Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America by Mark Kurlansky (Nonfiction and Memoir – 2013)