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

• The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) by Richmond Homer; Lattimore (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odyssey of Homer by trans. Homer/Richmond Lattimore (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Confucius: The Analects by Confucius (5th–4th century BCE)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• Plato, The Republic (The Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Enneads by Plotinus (3rd century)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
• Moses Maimonides The Guide for the Perplexed, Unabridged Dover Edition by Moses Maimonides (1190)
• St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set) by Thomas Aquinas (1266–1273)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (The World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• The New Science of Giambattista Vico (Cornell Paperbacks) by Giambattista Vico (1725)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
• Critique of Pure Reason (Macmillan Student Editions) by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel (1807)
• War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The Interpretation of Dreams (The Penguin Freud Library, Vol. 4) by Sigmund Freud (1900)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Maggot by John Fowles (2006 Edition)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2006 Edition)
• The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006 Edition)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006 Edition)
• Collector by John Fowles (2006 edition)
• Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti (2006 Edition)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (Oxford World's Classics) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (2006/2008 Edition)
• Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Whatever by Michel Houellebecq (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Amerika by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (2006/2008 Edition)
• A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME: SPRING V. 1 (DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME) by ANTHONY POWELL (2006/2008 Edition)
• A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. by John Kennedy. Toole (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (The World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Devils by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Locus Solus (Oneworld Modern Classics) by Raymond Roussel (2006/2008 Edition)
• Atomised by Michel Houellebecq (2006/2008 Edition)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Belle Du Seigneur by Albert Cohen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (2006/2008 Edition)
• Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (2006/2008 Edition)
• AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS. by Flann. O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• Platform by Michel Houellebecq (2006/2008 Edition)
• Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006/2008 Edition)
• The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (2006/2008 Edition)
• Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• The plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics) (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
• The castle by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crash by J.G. Ballard (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (2006/2008 Edition)
• Season of Migration to the North (Penguin Classics) by Tayeb Salih (2008 Edition)
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008 Edition)
• Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ernst Junger (2008 Edition)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)
• Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami (2008 Edition)
• Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics) by Daniel Paul Schreber (2008 Edition)
• The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Murasaki Shikibu (2008 Edition)
• The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (2008 edition)

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

• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2009, Ages 8↑)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Season of Migration to the North (Penguin Classics) by Tayeb Salih (creative writing)

Akutagawa

• Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami (1976)

ALA Notable Books

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey of Homer by trans. Homer/Richmond Lattimore (Poetry, 1999)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage) by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

Alex Award

• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS. by Flann. O'Brien (1939)
• Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (1969)
• A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. by John Kennedy. Toole (1980)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2000)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (Gold medal, 2005)
• The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt (Honorable mention, 2003)

Bagutta

• Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea (Panther) by Claudio Magris (1987)

Bancarella

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1958)

Bancroft Prize

• The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Studies in Legal History) by Morton J. Horwitz (1978)
• Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)

BBC's Big Read

• War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 36)
• The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (Best loved novel, 2003, No 45)
• Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (Best loved novel, 2003, No 67)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 76)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (Best loved novel, 2003, No 122)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
• Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 159)
• Lolita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2007) Stanley Lombardo translation

• The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) by Richmond Homer; Lattimore

Best Books 2006 Awards Finalist (Lombardo, Unabridged Audio) Parmenides Publishing

• The Odyssey of Homer by trans. Homer/Richmond Lattimore

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)

Booker Prize

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes (1984)
• Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford (1989)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Devils by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
• Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Six Volumes (Everymans Library, Volumes 434-439) by Edward Gibbon
• The travels of Marco Polo (Everyman's library) by Marco Polo
• The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

British Book Awards Author of the Year Shortlist

• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Norton Critical Editions) by John Henry Cardinal Newman (Holy Men and Women)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (The World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
• Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (Literary Classics)
• City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (Spiritual Reading)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (Blowback Trilogy) by Chalmers Johnson (Nonfiction, Gold, 2004)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Best Book, 2000)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Best Book, Eurasia Region, 2006)

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

• The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History) by E.P. Thompson
• Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean
• The Road to Oxiana (Penguin Travel Library) by Robert Byron
• To the Finland Station (New York Review Books Classics) by Edmund Wilson
• The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodds
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Cundill International Prize in History Longlist

• India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha (2008)

CWA

• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (Silver Dagger, 1994)

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

• The plague by Albert Camus

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Islam & Capitalism by Maxime Rodinson (1974)
• Karl Marx's Theory of History by Gerald Allen Cohen (1979)

Deux Magots

• Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau (1933)

Dilys Award

• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (1994)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower (2004)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (Novel, 1994)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The travels of Marco Polo (Everyman's library) by Marco Polo (010)
• The Road to Oxiana (Penguin Travel Library) by Robert Byron (076)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. by William D. Cohan (2007)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (Economics)
• Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean (Ethics)
• The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope (Ethics)
• The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin (Globalization)
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Globalization)
• The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham (Investing)
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Wall Street)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

• The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff (Lucifer Box Novels) by Mark Gatiss (Novel, 2006)

Glasnyckeln

• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (1993)

Gourmand World Cookbook

• Confessions of a Wine Lover by Jancis Robinson (Literary wine book, 1999)

The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order

• Global Business Regulation by John Braithwaite (2004)

Guardian 1000

• Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Classics) by Raymond Queneau (Comedy)
• Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope (Comedy)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Bloomsbury Classics) by Jay McInerney (Comedy)
• Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes (Comedy)
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (Comedy)
• The Polyglots (Twentieth Century Classics) by William Gerhardie (Comedy)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (The World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Comedy)
• A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. by John Kennedy. Toole (Comedy)
• The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett (Comedy)
• A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME: SPRING V. 1 (DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME) by ANTHONY POWELL (Comedy)
• The castle by Franz Kafka (Comedy)
• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime)
• Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (Crime)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Crime)
• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Crime)
• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (Crime)
• A Legacy: A Novel by Sybille Bedford (Family and self)
• The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (Family and self)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Family and self)
• AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS. by Flann. O'Brien (Family and self)
• Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz (Family and self)
• The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
• Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier (Love)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Love)
• Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (Love)
• The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Love)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Love)
• Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Love)
• The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (Love)
• Lolita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (Love)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (Love)
• The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Atomised by Michel Houellebecq (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Crash by J.G. Ballard (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (State of the nation)
• They Were Counted (The Writing on the Wall (Erdelyi Tortenet) the Transylvanian Trilogy, Book 1) by Miklos Banffy (State of the nation)
• The plague by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
• The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope (State of the nation)
• Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot (State of the nation)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (State of the nation)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics) by Stendhal (State of the nation)
• The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope (State of the nation)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (War and travel)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (War and travel)
• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (War and travel)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (War and travel)
• Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (War and travel)
• The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek (War and travel)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (Oxford World's Classics) by Stendhal (War and travel)
• Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti (War and travel)

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

• Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier (2009)
• The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (2009)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Star Of Redemption by Franz Rosenzweig
• The plague by Albert Camus

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

• The Politics of the Prussian Army: 1640-1945 (Galaxy Books) by Gordon A. Craig (1956)
• The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 (Weimar a by Martin Jay (1973)

Herralde

• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (1998)

Hugo Nominee

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (Novel, 2000)

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

• The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk (1990)
• The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (1992)

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