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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

• The Analects (Penguin Classics) by Confucius (5th–4th century BCE)
• The Republic by Plato (380 BCE)
• Aeneid of Virgil, The by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Candide: or, Optimism (Modern Library Classics) by Voltaire (1759)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative Reading Text and Genetic Text) by Herman Melville (2006 Edition)
• Breakfast of Champions by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut (2006 Edition)
• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel by Jean Rhys (2006/2008 Edition)
• Out of Africa (Modern Library) by Isak Dinesen (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics) by James Hogg (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Catcher In The Rye (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (2006/2008 Edition)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (2006/2008 Edition)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics) by Apuleius (2006/2008 Edition)

1952 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (10)

1956 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (22)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (19)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Catcher In The Rye (10)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Catcher In The Rye (10)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Far Side Gallery 5 by Gary Larson ( Going Alternative, 1997)
• The Client by John Grisham ( Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• The Catcher In The Rye (Own Your Freak, 2005)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (1998)

Alex Award

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• Oldest Living Confederate Widow: TELLS ALL by Allan Gurganus (Fiction, 1990)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett (1997)

Anthony Award Nominee

• The Houdini Specter: A Harry Houdini Mystery (Harry Houdini Mysteries) by Daniel Stashower (Paperback Original, 2002)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Huxley Aldous (1939)
• The Catcher In The Rye (1951)
• Another Country by James Baldwin (1962)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

Bancarella

• The Client by John Grisham (1994)

BBC's Big Read

• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• The Catcher In The Rye (Best loved novel, 2003, No 15)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 47)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 76)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (Best loved novel, 2003, No 104)
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Best loved novel, 2003, No 143)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Best loved novel, 2003, No 164)
• Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

Booker Prize

• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (1979)

Booker Prize Longlist

• The Death of Vishnu: A Novel by Manil Suri (2001)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Aeneid of Virgil, The by Virgil

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen by David J. Skal (Non-Fiction, 1990)
• The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Revised Edition with a New Afterword by David J. Skal (Non-Fiction, 1993)

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

British Guild of Food Writers

• The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten (Food Book of the Year, 1999)

Caldecott Honor

• Le Chat botté by Charles Perrault (1991)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• With bold knife and fork by M. F. K. Fisher (Nonfiction, Gold, 1969)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Nonfiction, Gold, 2006)

CWA

• The Thief Taker: A Novel by Janet Gleeson (Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist, 2004)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (Silver Dagger, 1994)

Dilys Award

• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1994)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Diamond in the Window (The Hall Family Chronicles) by Jane Langton (Juvenile, 1963)
• The lamp from the warlock's tomb by John Bellairs (Juvenile, 1989)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (Novel, 1994)

Edgar Award Nominee, Juvenile

• The Diamond in the Window (The Hall Family Chronicles) by Jane Langton (1963)
• The lamp from the warlock's tomb by John Bellairs (1989)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Out of Africa (Modern Library) by Isak Dinesen (037)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

Glasnyckeln

• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1993)

Guardian 1000

• Breakfast of Champions by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut (Comedy)
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Comedy)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Comedy)
• Murder at the Vicarage (November 1974 edition) by Agatha Christie (Crime)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Crime)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (Crime)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Family and self)
• The Catcher In The Rye (Family and self)
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë (Love)
• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel by Jean Rhys (Love)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics) by James Hogg (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
• Candide: or, Optimism (Modern Library Classics) by Voltaire (War and travel)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2009)
• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel by Jean Rhys (2009)
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The Catcher In The Rye
• Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Harvey Award

• The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Special Achievement in Humor, 1989)

Heartland Prize

• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Fiction, 1993)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Le Chat botté by Charles Perrault (1953)

International Fantasy Awards Nominee

• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (Fiction, 1952)

Iowa Teen Award Nominee

• The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt by John Bellairs (1985-1986)

Irish Times International Fiction Prize

• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993)

James Beard Foundation Award

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Writing on Food, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Huxley Aldous (Fiction, 1939)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• The Death of Vishnu: A Novel by Manil Suri (Fiction, 2001)

Lambda Literary Award

• Dykes and sundry other carbon-based life-forms to watch out for by Alison Bechdel (Humor, 2003)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus (Gay Men's Fiction, 1997)
• Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso (Transgender, 1996)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Catcher In The Rye (60)

Libraires du Québec

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 1994)

Lillian Smith Award

• The Strange Career of Jim Crow (Galaxy Books) by C. Vann Woodward (1974)

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