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100 Essential New England Books

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Boston Globe, #4)

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

• Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (1759)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (2006 Edition)
• Burmese Days by George Orwell (2006 Edition)
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (2006 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Everyman's Library classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (53)
• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (67)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (60)
• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (69)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1971)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2004)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

Alex Award

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2004)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1994)

Audie Award

• Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut (Short Stories, 2009)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

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

Bancarella

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)

BBC's Big Read

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 185)
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (Best loved novel, 2003, No 187)

Betty Trask Award

• The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden (1999)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (1993)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)

Bram Stoker Award

• Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (Novel, 1995)

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (Non-Fiction, 2001)

British Fantasy Award Nominee

• A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2006)

British Science Fiction Association Award

• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (Novel, 1978)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1993)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

Compton Crook Award Nominee

• Storm Front by Jim Butcher (2001)

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

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

Ditmar Award

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (International Fiction, 1985)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Falcon Award

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2008)

General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award

• Generation Kill by Evan Wright (2005)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

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

Guardian 1000

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Comedy)
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Comedy)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Crime)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Crime)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Family and self)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Everyman's Library classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Family and self)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Family and self)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Family and self)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Love)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Severian Of The Guild: The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Blindness by Jose Saramago (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (State of the nation)
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (State of the nation)
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (State of the nation)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
• Burmese Days by George Orwell (War and travel)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (War and travel)
• Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (War and travel)
• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (War and travel)

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

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (2009)

Hammett Prize Nominee

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2005)

Hugo

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (Novel, 1985)

Hugo Nominee

• Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel, 1964)
• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel, 1970)
• A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (Novel, 2006)

Ignotus Award

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

International IMPAC Dublin

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Shortlist, 2007)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• Generation Kill by Evan Wright (2005)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction, 2006)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden (Fiction, 1998)
• In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk (Fiction, 2000)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (1978)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (5)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Everyman's Library classics) by James Joyce (21)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (36.1)
• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (54)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (71)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (76)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (79)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Locus

• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (Fantasy Novel, 1997)
• A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin (Fantasy Novel, 1999)

Locus Award

• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (Best Fantasy Novel, 1997)
• A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin (Best Fantasy Novel, 1999)

Locus Recommended Reading

• A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (Fantasy Novel, 2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Generation Kill by Evan Wright (Current Interest, 2004)

LOST Book Club

• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut

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