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100 Essential New England Books

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (Boston Globe, #6)

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

• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (1943)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Walden by Henry Thoreau, David (2006/2008 Edition)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Razor's Edge (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (2006/2008 Edition)
• Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (2006/2008 Edition)
• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present by Peter Nabokov (1978)
• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (1985)
• The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (1990)
• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong (2001)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman (Biography, 1999)
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Stephen E. Ambrose (Biography, 1999)
• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• Why Terrorism Works by Alan M. Dershowitz (Social Sciences, 2004)
• A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery (Science & Technology, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong ( What Ails you?, 2006)
• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (Journey > Destination, 2009)

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: August 2009

• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley (#65)

Ambassador Book Award

• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Stephen E. Ambrose (American Studies, 1997)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Razor's Edge (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

BBC's Big Read

• Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (Best loved novel, 2003, No 90)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (Audiobook - Adult Fiction, 2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ( Children's Literature Honor Book, 2007)
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)

Books for a Better Life Award

• The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield (2008)

British Book Award

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Book of the Year, 2004)

Casey Award

• The Lords of the Realm by John Helyar (1994)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book) by E.T. Bell (Scholarship, Gold, 1937)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Angie Debo

Edgar Award Nominee

• Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials) by David Mcclintick (Fact Crime, 1983)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (Booms and Busts)
• Funny Money by Mark Singer (Booms and Busts)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (Investing)
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, First Edition by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)
• Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials) by David Mcclintick (Power)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (Power)
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Power)
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner (Project Management)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Project Management)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)
• Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro (Strategy)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Strategy)
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (A Marketplace Book) by Edwin Lefèvre (Wall Street)
• Where Are the Customers Yachts? Or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (A Marketplace Book) by Fred Schwed, Jr. (Wall Street)
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Wall Street)
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (Wall Street)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1975)

Guardian 1000

• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (Family and self)
• Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (Love)
• Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) by Emily Bronte (Love)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (War and travel)
• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• The Razor's Edge (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
• Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present by Peter Nabokov (1979)

Hugo

• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Novel, 1986)

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

• The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (1992)

IPPY

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

IPPY Finalist

• The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur by Randy Komisar (Business/Career, 2001)
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Current Events, 2005)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (1989)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (38)

Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2nd prize, 2004)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Biography, 2001)

LOST Book Club

• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac

Minnesota Book Awards

• How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation by Rosalie Maggio ( Information Winner, 1991)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (21)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (37)
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner (61)
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris (79)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (92)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (16)
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Stephen E. Ambrose (32)
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos (46)
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (75)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Readers' List, 59)
• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac (The Board's List, 55)
• Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (The Board's List, 66)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 1)

National Book Award

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris (Biography,1980)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Nonfiction, 1987)
• The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav (Science (Paperback), 1980)

National Book Award finalist

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1958)
• Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials) by David Mcclintick (General Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1983)
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (Nonfiction, 1962)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (General Nonfiction, 1987)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner (General Nonfiction, 1986)
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Nonfiction, 2007)

National Outdoor Book Award

• Walden by Henry Thoreau, David (Classic, 2004)

Nebula

• Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (Novel, 1985)

New South Wales Premier's Literary Award

• The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (Christina Stead Prize, 1992)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris (1979)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1987)
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright (1994)

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