Awards in your library

Summary: 29 Awards.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008 edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Social Sciences, 2004)

Alex Award

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2004)

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Betty Trask Award

• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (1999)

Beyond Margins Award

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Adult Fiction, 2008)

British Book Award

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Best Read of the Year, 2008)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Best Book, Africa, 2007)

Dolman Best Travel Book Shortlist

• Blood River by Tim Butcher (2008)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ( co-recipient)

Florida Teens Read

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2008-2009)

Guardian 1000

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (War and travel)

Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction, 2006)

Lambda Literary Award

• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Lesbian Fiction, 1999)

Library Journal's Best Book of the Year

• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (1999)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Semifinalist, 2007)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction, 2006)

New York Times bestseller

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Fiction, 2007)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Fiction & Poetry, 1999)
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction & Poetry, 2006)

O. Henry Prize

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2003)

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)

Reading Across Rhode Island

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2005)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Blood River by Tim Butcher (2008)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Fiction (3), 2007)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (13)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (25)