Awards Won by Beacon Press

National Book Award

• The Healing
  Gayl Jones, 1998 finalist
• New and Selected Poems, Volume One
  Mary Oliver, 1992

National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist

• Five Thousand Days Like This One
  Jane Brox, 1999
• Does Your House Have Lions?
  Sonia Sanchez, 1997
• The End of the Novel of Love
  Vivian Gornick, 1997

Lannan Literary Fellowship

• Freeman House, 2005

Lannan Literary Award for Non-fiction

• Scott Russell Sanders, 1995

L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Here and Nowhere Else
  Jane Brox, 1995
• House of Light
  Mary Oliver, 1991

PEN American Center Beyond Margins Award

• West of the Jordan
  Laila Halaby, 2004

PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry

• Waiting for the Paraclete
  Lise Goette

Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Finalist

• The Sounds of Slavery
  Shane White and Graham White, 2005

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, Short List

• Summer Snow
  Trudier Harris, 2004

Christopher Award

• Choosing Naia
  Mitchell Zuckoff, 2002
• The Measure of Our Success
  Marian Wright Edelman, 1993
• House of Light
  Mary Oliver, 1991

Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• Encountering God
  Diana L. Eck, 1995

Grawemeyer Award of Ideas Improving World Order

• For the Common Good
  Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., 1991

New York Times Notable Books of the Year

• The Healing
  Gayl Jones, 1998
• The End of the Novel of Love
  Vivian Gornick, 1997
• Lieutenant Nun
  Catalina de Erauso, 1996
• Fifty Days of Solitude
  Doris Grumbach, 1994
• Life Work
  Donald Hall, 1993
• New and Selected Poems, Volume One
  Mary Oliver, 1993
• Ordinary Time
  Nancy Mairs, 1993
• Race Matters
  Cornel West, 1993
• Translated Woman
  Ruth Behar, 1993
• Maternal Thinking
  Sara Ruddick, 1989

Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Outstanding Book Awards

• We Are All Suspects Now
  Tram Nguyen, 2006 winner
• Storming Caesars Palace
  Annelise Orleck, 2006 winner
• Sarah's Long Walk
  Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick, 2005 Honorable Mention
• Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and Tight
  Carol Burke, 2004 Honorable Mention
• Speak My Name
  Edited by Don Belton, 1995
• Turning Back
  Stephen Steinberg, 1996
• Living with Racism
  Joe Feagin and Melvin Sikes, 1994
• Race Matters
  Cornel West, 1994
• You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
  Howard Zinn, 1994

Albert A . Hourani Award of the Middle East Studies Association, Honorable Mention

• Resurrecting Empire
  Rashid Khalidi, 2004

Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education Book of the Year Selection

• The Power of Their Ideas
  Deborah Meyer, 1996

Book Trade Awards

Quill Award

• New and Selected Poems: Volume 2
  Mary Oliver, 2006 finalist for poetry
• Blue Iris
  Mary Oliver, 2005 finalist for poetry

Publishers Weekly Best Religion Books of 2005

• Roadside Religion
  Timothy K. Beal
• Unchosen
  Hella Winston

Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Award/Arts

• The Pueblo Imagination
  Lee Marmon, 2004

ALA Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction

• Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
  Kevin Jennings, 2006
  
• Beyond Shame
  Patrick Moore, 2004

CHOICE Magazine, Outstanding Academic Books

• White Men on Race
  Joe Feagin and Eileen O'Brien, 2004
• The Opening of the American Mind
  Lawrence W. Levine, 1997
• Seeing and Believing
  Margaret Miles, 1996
• Poetic Justice
  Martha Nussbaum, 1996
• Lieutenant Nun
  Catalina de Erauso, 1996
• Turning Back
  Stephen Steinberg, 1996
• Working the Spirit
  Joseph M. Murphy, 1994
• But She Said
  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, 1933

Spirituality & Health Best Books

• Breathing Space
  Heidi Neumark, 2003
• Breakfast Epiphanies
  David Anderson, 2002

New England Booksellers Association, Literary Excellence Award

• Mary Oliver, 1999

New England Booksellers Association, Presidential Award

• Cornel West
• Doris Grumbach

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Transgender Warriors
  Leslie Feinberg, 1996

American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

• The Measure of Our Success
  Marian Wright Edelman, 1993

Library Journal, Best Books of the Year

• Cries of the Spirit
  Marilyn Sewell, 1991