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

• The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Books 1 and 2 by Thomas L. Heath (280 BCE)
• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Classics) by Charles Darwin (1859)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Hard Times (A Longman Cultural Edition) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard (2006 Edition)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris (13)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris (15)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (1968)
• The Blessing Way (Joe Leaphorn Novels) by Tony Hillerman (1970)
• The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978)
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1980)
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• No Exit and Three Other Plays: Dirty Hands, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre (Drama, 1999)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston ( What Ails you?, 2006)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (#43)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)

American Book Award

• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1985)

American Library Association Notable Book

• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1984)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1994)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Bancarella

• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris (1994)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2005)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Small World by David Lodge (1984)
• Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge (1988)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1993)

C. Wright Mills Award

• Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman (1974)
• The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation (American Sociological by Joyce Rothschild (1986)
• The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson (1987)

Choice Outstanding Academic Book

• Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich by Alan D. Beyerchen (1977)

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

• Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman
• The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
• Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• Inside the Company by Philip Agee
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Blessing Way (Joe Leaphorn Novels) by Tony Hillerman (First Novel, 1971)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (026)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (Economics)
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin (Globalization)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Roman étranger, 1997)

Guardian 1000

• Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge (Comedy)
• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (Comedy)
• Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge (Comedy)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Hard Times (A Longman Cultural Edition) by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (State of the nation)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (State of the nation)

Guardian Essential Library

• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (2002)

Hawthornden Prize

• Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1974)
• Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge (1975)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris (1995)
• It's So Amazing! A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families by Robie H. Harris (2000)

Ignotus Award

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Foreign novel, 2001)

IPPY

• The Future Dictionary of America (Humor, 2005)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond (Biography, 1991)

Lionel Trilling Book Award

• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (2000)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (Biography, 1983)
• Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs (Current Interest, 1984)
• The Blind Watchmaker; Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (Current Interest, 1987)
• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (Fiction, 1985)
• Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel (History, 1983)

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

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (7)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (10)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (24)
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (52)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)

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

• How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff (44)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (54)
• Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia (63)

National Book Award

• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1980)
• The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist

• The Man Who Kept the Secrets by Thomas Powers (General Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1980)
• V669 Physicists-Kevles by Daniel J. Kevles (History (Paperback), 1980)
• Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov (Nonfiction, 1961)
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (Nonfiction, 1962)
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology (Touchstone Books) by Horace Freeland Judson (Science (Hardcover), 1980)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1982)
• The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change by Thomas S. Kuhn (Science (Paperback), 1980)
• Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books) by Morris Kline (Science (Paperback), 1983)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (The Sciences, 1969)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 by Sylvia Nasar (Biography/Autobiography, 1998)
• October Light by John Gardner (Fiction, 1976)
• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (Fiction, 1984)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (General Nonfiction, 1981)
• Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (General Nonfiction, 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia (Criticism, 1990)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1987)
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction, 1979)
• The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin P Phillips (General Nonfiction, 1990)
• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (General Nonfiction, 1991)
• Genie: a Scientific Tragedy by Russ Rymer (General Nonfiction, 1993)

NEA Big Read

• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (2009)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• No Exit and Three Other Plays: Dirty Hands, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreign Play, 1946-1947)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (1968)
• Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education by Charles E. Silberman (1970)
• October Light by John Gardner (1976)
• The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology (Touchstone Books) by Horace Freeland Judson (1979)
• The Man Who Kept the Secrets by Thomas Powers (1979)
• Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (1983)
• Periodic Table by Primo Levi (1985)
• Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1985)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks (1986)
• The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson (1987)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1987)
• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (1989)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (1990)
• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey (1998)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

New York Times bestseller

• Websters New World Dictionary of the American Language (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 1984)
• October Light by John Gardner (Fiction, 1977)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1987)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (Fiction, 1990)
• Vox: A Novel by Nicholson Baker (Fiction, 1992)
• Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues by Nick Bantock (Fiction, 1992)
• Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock (Fiction, 1992)
• Next (Harper Fiction) by Michael Crichton (Fiction, 2006)
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (General, 1945)
• The Invisible Government by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross (General, 1963)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (General, 1968)
• Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education by Charles E. Silberman (General, 1971)
• Joy of Sex by Alex comfort (General, 1972)
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent (General, 1982)
• Life Extension a Practical Scientific Approach by Durk Pearson (General, 1982)
• The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin P Phillips (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (Nonfiction, 1991)
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin (Nonfiction, 1991)
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1992)
• All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President by James Carville (Nonfiction, 1994)
• A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod by Maria Flook (Nonfiction, 2003)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction, 2003)
• How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (Nonfiction, 2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Classics) by Charles Darwin (2009, No. 27)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (2009, No. 92)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Periodic Table by Primo Levi (2003)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1990)

Prometheus Award Shortlist

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Novel, 1993)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin (General Non-Fiction, 1992)

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