Book Awards for SimonTanner
Awards given to books in SimonTanner's library
Summary: 150 Awards and Honors
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar
The 100 books every school-leaver ought to have read
100 Books That Shaped World History
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes) by Noel Malcolm (1651)
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
1000 Books to Read Before You Die
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Swedish)
16 Of The Best Science Books of All Time
The 20 Most Popular Books Throughout History
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (14: 1859)
5 книг Постнауки
- Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Human Rights in History) by Sarah B. Snyder (5 книг о транснациональной истории)
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (5 книг о генетике)
- Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven (5 книг о войнах Российской империи)
500 Must Read Books
9 books about Manchester that everyone should read
AAR Best First Book in the History of Religions Award
- Honored by the Glory of Islam by Marc David Baer (Shortlisted – 2009)
Alan Paton Award
- The First President: A Life of John L. Dube, Founding President of the ANC by Heather Hughes (Longlist – 2012)
Albert Hourani Book Award
- Honored by the Glory of Islam by Marc David Baer (Co-Winner – 2008)
Alec Nove Prize
- The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History) by David Moon (2013)
Amazon.com Best Books
- Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia (History – 2011)
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Introductory Reading Lists by University of Cambridge
- From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 (New Edinburgh History of Scotland) by James E. Fraser (The Brittonic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight (Nonfiction – 2012)
- Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by David Eltis (Nonfiction – 2011)
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Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
- Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston (Shortlist – 2012)
- Turning Out the Lights: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan (Longlist – 2013)
Bancroft Prize
Barbara Jelavich Prize
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award
- On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis by Daniel Matlin (Winner – 2013)
Bernard Schwartz Book Award
- Restless Empire by Odd Arne Westad (Winner – 2013)
Besides the Bible: 100 Books That Have, Should, or Will Create Christian Culture
Bolton-Johnson Prize
- The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (Critical Perspectives on Empire) by Rebecca Earle (2013)
- The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 by Rebecca Earle (Honorable Mention – 2008)
BookDepository's 100 Best Books Ever
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes) by Noel Malcolm
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books
- THE THIRD REICH AT WAR 1939-1945 by Richard Evans (History – 2009)
Books That Changed the World
Boston Globe Best Book
- The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds (Nonfiction – 2014)
British Academy Medal
- Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia (2013)
- Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 by Patricia Clavin (2015)
British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
- Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston (Longlist – 2013)
- Turning Out the Lights: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan (Shortlist – 2014)
Bruno Kreisky Prize for Best Political Book
BSHS Hughes Prize
- Science in the 20th Century and Beyond by Jon Agar (Shortlist – 2013)
Caughey Book Prize
CBC Bookie Awards
- Turning Out the Lights: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan (Nominee – Canadian Nonfiction – 2014)
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
- The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree (2011)
- London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White (2013)
- Music and Society in Early Modern England with Audio CD by Christopher Marsh (Music – 2011)
- The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe by R. I. Moore (2012)
- With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by D. Stevenson (2012)
Christian Science Monitor Best Book
- THE THIRD REICH AT WAR 1939-1945 by Richard Evans (Nonfiction – 2009)
- Turning Out the Lights: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan (Nonfiction – 2013)
Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize
- The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 by Alvin Jackson (Shortlist – 2012)
Cundill History Prize
- The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy (Finalist – 2014)
- The Comanche Empire (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Pekka Hamalainen (Finalist – 2009)
- Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack (Longlist – 2011)
- The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell (Longlist – 2012)
- The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark (Finalist – 2013)
- Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston (Finalist – 2012)
Dartmouth Medal
- Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by David Eltis (Honorable Mention – 2011)
Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History
- The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy (Shortlist – 2014)
- The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army by Gary Sheffield (Shortlist – 2012)
- Chinas War With Japan 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter (Winner – 2014)
- The Secret History of Mi6 by Keith Jeffery (Shortlist – 2011)
- Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston (Shortlist – 2012)
- Turning Out the Lights: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan (Shortlist – 2014)
- With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by D. Stevenson (Shortlist – 2012)
East Asia Resource Center Book Recommendations
- Chinas War With Japan 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter
- The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics) by Lu Xun
Easton Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
The Economist Best Books
- Chinas War With Japan 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter (2013.19)
- The Frock-coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist by Tristram Hunt (2009.16)
- Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia (2011.8)
- Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven (2009.9)
- Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin (2012.7)
- Turning Out the Lights: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan (2013.12)
- The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson (2008.11)
Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
- The Frock-coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist by Tristram Hunt (2010)