Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

Award Winners

1. House Lights: A Novel

   Leah Hager Cohen

   “Tantalizing ... captivating ... provocative.”—BooklistMore

2. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us

   Robyn Meredith

   "A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers."—Noam Lupu, San Francisco ChronicleMore

3. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

   James M. Tabor

   Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—TimeMore

4. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

   Michael K. Honey

   The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.More

5. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

   James Oakes

   "A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean BakerMore

6. The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records

   Ashley Kahn

   "A jazz-lover's delight."—Ray Olson, BooklistMore

7. Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

   Felipe Fernández-Armesto

   "A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book ReviewMore

8. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

   Michael Lewis

   "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

9. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

   Sean B. Carroll

   DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.More

10. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

    David Blackbourn

    "Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian KershawMore

11. Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers

    Daniel Leader, Lauren Chattman

    Recipes from the back rooms and basement bakeries that produce Europe's best breads.More

12. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

    Stanley Kunitz, Marnie Crawford Samuelson, Genine Lentine

    "A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality."—BooklistMore

13. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

    Eric R. Kandel

    “A stunning book.”—Oliver SacksMore

14. Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English

    Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink

    “Fink’s precise new translation makes this pivotal period in Lacan’s thought more accessible to English speakers.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore

15. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World

    Matthew Stewart

    “A colorful reinterpretation. . . . Stewart’s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore