Free Press Award Winners
ABIGAIL ADAMS by Woody Holton
Winner, 2010 Bancroft Prize for Biography
AMERICAN CHINATOWN by Bonnie Tsui
Winner, 2010 Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award for Literature, Adult Nonfiction
AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS by Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
Winner, 2002 Books for a Better Life Award, Psychology
BETWEEN THE ASSASINATIONS by Aravind Adiga
Winner, Author of the Year, The Galaxy British Book Awards 2009
A CRIME SO MONTSTROUS by Benjamin E. Skinner
Winner, 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Nonfiction
DAY OF HONEY by Annia Ciezadlo
Winner, 2011 Books for a Better Life Award, First book category
DENIAL OF DEATH by Ernest Becker
Winner, 1974 Pulitzer Prize, Nonfiction
DOGTOWN by Elyssa East
Winner, 2010 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Nonfiction
ERNIE PYLE’S WAR by James Tobin
1998, Winner of NBCC, Biography
THE FAITH CLUB by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
Winner, 2007 Books for a Better Life Award, Relationships category
THE FOLDED EARTH by Anuradha Roy
Winner, 2011 Economist Crossword Book Award, English Fiction
THE FOURTH PART OF THE WORLD by Toby Lester
Winner, 2009 PeaceCorps Writers Award
THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE by Dyan deNapoli
Silver Award Winner, 2011 Nautilus Book Awards
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN by Mark Obmascik
Winner, 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature
HOW TO READ THE BIBLE by James L. Kugel
Winner, 2007 National Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book of the Year
INVISIBLE ACTS OF POWER by Caroline Myss
Winner, 2004 Books for a Better Life Award, Spirituality
KOOK by Peter Heller
Winner, 2010 National Outdoor Book Awards for Outdoor Literature
THE LANGUAGE OF GOD by Francis S. Collins
Winner, 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom (for author)
Winner, 2007 Christopher Award
THE MADONNAS OF ECHO PARK by Brando Skyhorse
Winner, 2011 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Winner, 2011 The American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award,
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
THE MEMORY PALACE by Mira Bartok
Winner, 2012 ALA Notable Books, nonfiction
Winner, 2011 New England Book Festival competition, autobiography category
Winner, 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, autobiography category
THE NEW KIDS by Brooke Hauser
Winner, 2012 Alex Awards Top Ten
NOMAD by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Winner, 2011 Exceptional Merit in Media Awards (EMMAs), book category
THE NUMBER by Lee Eisenberg
Winner, 2006 Books for a Better Life Award, Personal Finance category
THE RADLEYS by Matt Haig
Winner, 2011 ALA Alex Awards
MY RIVER CHRONICLES by Jessica DuLong
Winner, 2010 American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award, Memoir
SUPERBUG by Maryn McKenna
Winner, 2011 Science in Society Journalism Awards – Book category
SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER by Peter Manseau
Winner, 2009 Ribalow Prize for Jewish Fiction
Winner, 2009 Sophie Brody Medal
Winner, 2008 National Jewish Book Award, Fiction
SOPHIA TOLSTOY: A BIOGRAPHY by Alexandra Popoff
Winner, 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards, Non-Fiction Award
Winner, 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards, Saskatoon Book Award
THE STATUES THAT WALKED by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo
Winner, 2012 Society for America Archeology Book Award, public audience category
THE STORY OF STUFF by Annie Leonard
Winner, Santa Monica Public Library Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Award, Economics
TATTOOS ON THE HEART by Gregory Boyle
Winner, SCIBA’s 2010 Nonfiction Book Award
Winner, PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Literary Award
THELONIOUS MONK by Robin D. G.Kelley
Winner, 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Nonfiction
Winner, 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
Winner, 2010 Ambassador Book Award for a Book of Special Distinction
Winner, 2010 PEN Open Book Award
Winner, 2009 Jazz Journalists Association Award for Best Book
WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA by Carlos Eire
Winner, 2003 National Book Award, Nonfiction
THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga
Winner, 2008 Man Booker Prize
WHO’S AFRAID OF POST-BLACKNESS by Toure
Winner, 2011 Books for a Better Life Award, Motivational book cateogory
WILLIAM GOLDING by John Carey
Winner, James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
WISENHEIMER by Mark Oppenheimer
Co-Winner, Connecticut Book Award
THE WOLF by Richard Guilliatt
Winner, 2010 Mountbatten Maritime Award for Best Literary Contribution (UK)
YOU series by Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, MD
Winners, 2009 Books for a Better Life, Achievement Award
