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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

High-rise by J. G. Ballard (2006 Edition)
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (2006 Edition)
Concrete (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006 Edition)
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (2006/2008 Edition)
Nadja by Andre Breton (2006/2008 Edition)
What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
Père Goriot (Oxford World's Classics) by Honoré de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
Them by Joyce Carol Oates (2006/2008 Edition)
Blindness a novel by Henry Green (2006/2008 Edition)
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
Crash by J. G. Ballard (2006/2008 Edition)
The crying of Lot 49 by Thomas. Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
The House Mirth by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
UNDER THE NET. by IRIS. MURDOCH (2006/2008 Edition)
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (2008 edition)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies

Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism by Karen Pinkus (1994-95)

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award

The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978 by Sarah Greenough (2008)

And/Or Book Award

Widescreen Cinema (Harvard Film Studies) by John Belton (Moving Image, 1993)
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot by Larry J. Schaaf (Photography, 2002)
The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 by Martin Parr (Photography, 2006)

BBC's Big Read

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)

Benjamin Franklin Award

Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration by Beth Gates Warren (Arts (Art/Music/Photography), 2002)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

Booker Prize Shortlist

Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch (1970)
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (1977)
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch (1985)

The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin by Caelum Vatnsdal (2000)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Writing Los Angeles : a literary anthology by David L. Ulin (Californiana, Silver, 2002)
River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit (Nonfiction, Gold, 2003)
Where I was from by Joan. Didion (Special Acknowledgement, Silver, 2003)

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

Deutscher Memorial Prize

City of quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis (1991)

Edgar Award Nominee

Black Dahlia Avenger Rev Ed: A Genius for Murder by Steve Hodel (Fact Crime, 2004)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Sean Tejaratchi (Special Recognition/Wildcard Categories, 1997)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

Cut with the kitchen knife : the Weimar photomontages of Hannah H�och by Maud. Lavin (1994)

Golden Lion

Belle de jour by Luis Buñuel (1967)

Guardian 1000

UNDER THE NET. by IRIS. MURDOCH (Comedy)
The crying of Lot 49 by Thomas. Pynchon (Crime)
Père Goriot (Oxford World's Classics) by Honoré de Balzac (Family and self)
Washington Square (Signet Classics) by Henry James (Family and self)
The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (Family and self)
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (Family and self)
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (Love)
The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford (Love)
The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (Love)
The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (Love)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Love)
Crash by J. G. Ballard (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The House Mirth by Edith Wharton (State of the nation)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson (60)

Howard R. Marraro

Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism by Karen Pinkus (1994-95)

IPPY Finalist

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects by Andy Grundberg (Photography, 2005)

James Russell Lowell Prize

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete by Estelle Jussim (1981)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

Mythomania : fantasies, fables, and sheer lies in contemporary American popular art by Bernard Welt (Small Press, 1996)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9)
The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (23)
Crash by J. G. Ballard (40)
The House Mirth by Edith Wharton (65)

Lionel Trilling Book Award

Landscape And Memory by Simon Schama (1996)
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books) by Jonathan Crary (2001)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

The golden bough; a study in magic and religion by James George Frazer, Sir

Mark Lynton History Prize

River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit (2004)

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

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

The golden bough; a study in magic and religion by James George Frazer, Sir (31)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (The Board's List, 4)
The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (The Board's List, 26)
The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (The Board's List, 27)
The House Mirth by Edith Wharton (The Board's List, 69)
UNDER THE NET. by IRIS. MURDOCH (The Board's List, 95)

National Book Award

Them by Joyce Carol Oates (Fiction, 1970)
Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Julio Cortazar (Translation, 1967)
Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire (Translation, 1983)

National Book Award finalist

Against interpretation, and other essays by Susan Sontag (Arts and Letters, 1967)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction, 1959)
Expensive People (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fiction, 1969)
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Fiction, 1973)
The white album by Joan. Didion (General Nonfiction (Paperback), 1981)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture by Carl E. Schorske (History (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist (Translation, 1970) Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane

Manifestoes of surrealism by Andre Breton

National Book Critics Circle Award

Susan Sontag On Photography by Sontag (Criticism, 1977)
River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit (Criticism, 2003)
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray (Memoir/Autobiography, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media (Culture and the Moving Image Series) by J. Hoberman (Criticism, 1991)
Regarding the pain of others by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 2003)
The white album by Joan. Didion (General Nonfiction, 1979)
City of quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis (General Nonfiction, 1990)

NEA Big Read

Washington Square (Signet Classics) by Henry James (2009)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Them by Joyce Carol Oates (1969)
Susan Sontag On Photography by Sontag (1977)
The white album by Joan. Didion (1979)

New York Times bestseller

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (Fiction, 1949)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction, 1958)
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Fiction, 1972)
The Family of Man by Edward Steichen (General, 1955)
The American way of death by Jessica Mitford (General, 1963)
The white album by Joan. Didion (General, 1979)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

Air Guitar by Dave Hickey (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2009, No. 4)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford (2003)
The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2003)
David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2003)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2003)

Pulitzer Prize

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Fiction, 1973)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture by Carl E. Schorske (General Non-Fiction, 1981)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (11)
The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (35)
The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (69)
The Bostonians (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James (87)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America by James Allen (Winner, 2001)

Salon Book Award

Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray (2005)

Spur Award

River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit (Nonfiction-Contemporary, 2004)

SWR-Bestenliste

Concrete (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (1982)
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (1983)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2008)
David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2008)

The Ten Greatest Books of All Time - TIME

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2007)

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