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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar

• The Bible : a biography di Karen Armstrong (2021)
• Shadow of the Silk Road di Colin Thubron (2021)

100 книг non-fiction от The Prime Russian Magazine

• Civilization: A New History of the Western World di Roger Osborne

1000 Books to Read Before You Die

• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts di Clive James
• The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod di Henry Beston

55 Nonfiction Books to Read in a Lifetime

• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story di Diane Ackerman

AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books

• The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science di Natalie Angier (Finalista – Young Adult Science Book – 2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Most Beautiful House in the World di Witold Rybczynski (Saggistica – 1999)
• The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University di Kevin Roose (Arts and Humanities)

Alex Award

• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game di Michael Lewis (2007)

Ambassador Book Award

• A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade di Christopher Benfey (Vincitore – American Studies – 2009)

American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award

• And the Band Played on: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic di Randy Shilts (1988)

Audie Award

• Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog di Ted Kerasote (Finalista – Personal Development/Motivational – 2008)

Banff Mountain Book Competition

• Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest di Lincoln Hall (Special Jury Mention – 2007)

Besides the Bible: 100 Books That Have, Should, or Will Create Christian Culture

• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts di Clive James
• Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) di Phyllis Tickle
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism di Timothy Keller
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism di Timothy Keller

Best Fiction for Young Adults

• And the Band Played on: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic di Randy Shilts (Selection – 1987)
• Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen di Jr. Robertson, James I. (Selection – 2007)

Book of the Month Club Selection

• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu di Laurence Bergreen (November 2007)
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Vintage) di Laurence Bergreen (November 2007)

Book Sense Pick

• How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else di Michael Gates Gill (Oct 2007)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

• The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture di Brink Lindsey (Science – 2007)
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic di Joseph J. Ellis (Storia – 2007)
• Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War di Joe Bageant (Social Sciences – 2007)
• Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City di Tristram Hunt (Storia – 2006)
• Citizenship Papers: Essays di Wendell Berry (Social Sciences – 2003)
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts di Clive James (Storia – 2007)
• For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago di Simon Baatz (Social Sciences – 2008)
• Head and Heart: American Christianities di Garry Wills (Storia – 2007)
• The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward -- A New Approach di The Iraq Study Group Hamilton, James A. Baker, Lee H. (Social Sciences – 2006)
• The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism di Edward Feser (Religion – 2008)
• The Listening Heart: Vocation And the Crisis of Modern Culture di A. J. Conyers (Social Sciences – 2006)
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu di Laurence Bergreen (Biografia – 2007)
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Vintage) di Laurence Bergreen (Biografia – 2007)
• Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs di Melody Petersen (Social Sciences – 2008)
• Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001 di Richard B. Bernstein (Storia – 2002)
• Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer di Shannon Brownlee (Social Sciences – 2007)
• Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America di Miles Harvey (Biografia – 2008)
• A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation di Catherine Allgor (Biografia – 2006)
• Simple Courage: The True Story of Peril on the Sea di Frank Delaney (Storia – 2006)
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story di Diane Ackerman (Storia – 2007)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults

• Clara's war : one girl's story of survival di Clara Kramer (2009)

Booklist Top 10 Biographies

• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu di Laurence Bergreen (2007)
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Vintage) di Laurence Bergreen (2007)

Books We Liked the Best: The Christian Science Monitor

• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression di Mildred Armstrong Kalish (2007)

Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize

• Head and Heart: American Christianities di Garry Wills (Saggistica – 2008)
• What the Gospels Meant di Garry Wills (Saggistica – 2008)

Christian Book Award

• Jesus I Never Knew, The di Phillip Yancy
• Jesus I Never Knew, The di Phillip Yancy (Vincitore – Christian Book of the Year – 1996)

Christian Gauss Award

• A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade di Christopher Benfey (Vincitore – 2009)

Christian Science Monitor Best Book

• Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer di Shannon Brownlee (Saggistica – 2008)
• A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade di Christopher Benfey (Saggistica – 2008)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind di Antony Flew (Apologetics/Evangelism – 2008)
• Jesus I Never Knew, The di Phillip Yancy (No. 8 – 1996)

Christianity Today's Books of the Century

• Jesus I Never Knew, The di Phillip Yancy

The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year

• Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations di Martin Goodman (Bronze Medal – Historical Non-Fiction – 2018)

Colorado Book Award

• Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War di Martha Hanna (Vincitore – Biografia – 2007)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• And the Band Played on: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic di Randy Shilts (Silver Medal – Saggistica – 1987)

Connecticut Book Award

• Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back di Ann Vileisis (Finalista – Saggistica – 2008)

Cundill History Prize

• A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century di John Burrow (Lista completa – 2009)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize

• A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy di Thomas Buergenthal (Lista completa – Saggistica – 2010)

Edgar Award

• For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago di Simon Baatz (Candidato – Fact Crime – 2009)
• Strange Piece of Paradise di Terri Jentz (Candidato – Fact Crime – 2007)

Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year

• Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs di Melody Petersen (Lista completa – 2008)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic di Joseph J. Ellis (2008)

GEO Magazine Recommendation

• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism di Timothy Keller
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism di Timothy Keller

George Washington Book Prize

• A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation di Catherine Allgor (Finalista – 2007)

Georgia Top 25 Reading List

• Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South di Roy Jr Blount (2010)

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters di Elizabeth Brown Pryor (Vincitore – 2008)

GLCA New Writers Award

• Family Bible (Sightline Books) di Melissa J. Delbridge (Creative Non-Fiction – 2009)

Grand Prix SGDL de l'Essai

• Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History di Lucien X. Polastron (2004)

Great Lakes Book Award

• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression di Mildred Armstrong Kalish (Finalista – General Nonfiction – 2008)

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fat Land di Greg Critser (2003)
• The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina di Ken Wells (2008)

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

• Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs di Melody Petersen (Finalista – 2009)

History Book Club Selection

• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu di Laurence Bergreen
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Vintage) di Laurence Bergreen

Indies Choice Book Award

• The World Without Us di Alan Weisman (Honor Book – Adult Nonfiction – 2008)

Iowa Reader Literary Award for non-fiction

• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression di Mildred Armstrong Kalish (2007)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• The World Without Us di Alan Weisman (Finalista – 2008)

J. Russell Major Prize

• Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War di Martha Hanna (2007)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters di Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2007)

Journal book lovers pick their own top

• Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) di Wallace Stegner