"Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann

(2011 selection)

Awards and Accolades for "Let the Great World Spin"

• 2009 National Book Award
• 2010 Ambassador Book Award
• 2010 Medici Book Club Prize
• Indie Booksellers: Summer '10 Reading Group List
• Amazon.com's Best Book of 2009
• Esquire: The First Great 9/11 Novel
• Oprah.com: Books You Can't Put Down

Accolades and Awards for
Colum McCann's Other Works

• 2004 Irish Novel of the Year (for "Dancer")
• 2003 Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year
• 2003 Writer of the Year Award, Esquire Magazine
• 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award
• 1994 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (for "Fishing the Sloe-Black River")
• Butler Literary Award
• Hennessy Award for Irish Literature
• Pushcart Prize

Funding for "One Book, Everybody Reads" is made possible by Friends of the Wilmette Public Library.