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

• The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation by Plato (380 BCE)
• Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Foe: A Novel (King Penguin) by J. M. Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (2006 Edition)
• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (45)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (42)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1969)
• And the Band Played On. Politics People And The AIDs Epidemic by Randy Shilts (1987)
• Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir by Pang-Mei Chang (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Drama, 1999)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X (Biography, 1999)
• Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez (Biography, 1999)
• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Biography, 1999)
• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series): An American Slave ( by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)
• BACKLASH - The Undeclared War Against Women by SUSAN FALUDI (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller ( The Stories of Our Lives, 1997)
• Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir by Pang-Mei Chang ( This Small World: a Glimpse of Many Cultures, 2003)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present by edited by Lillian Faderman (1995)
• Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey (2003)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• And the Band Played On. Politics People And The AIDs Epidemic by Randy Shilts (1988)

American Book Award

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1988)
• I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted by Sandra Martz (1995)
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis (1998)
• All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald (2000)

BBC's Big Read

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics) by Barbara Stoler Miller

C. Wright Mills Award

• Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1977)
• Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform by Sharon Hays (2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez (Nonfiction, Gold, 1981)
• And the Band Played On. Politics People And The AIDs Epidemic by Randy Shilts (Nonfiction, Silver, 1987)
• BACKLASH - The Undeclared War Against Women by SUSAN FALUDI (Nonfiction, Silver, 1991)

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

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X

Guardian 1000

• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Comedy)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Black Elk; Neihardt
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
• Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl Viktor E.

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Long List

• Quintessence Realizing the Archaic Future A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto (Fiftieth Anniversary 2048 BE (Biophilic Era) Edition Containing Cosmic Comments and Conversations with the Author) by Mary Daly (1999)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1993)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

• Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent by Mary Laven (2002)

Lambda Literary Award

• Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present by edited by Lillian Faderman (Anthology/Fiction, 1994)
• Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey (Transgender, 2002)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Short Stories by Irene Zahava (Anthology/Fiction, 1994)
• Lesbian Love Stories by Irene Zahava (Lesbian Anthology, 1989)
• Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present by edited by Lillian Faderman (Lesbian Studies, 1994)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (12)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (Current Interest, 1997)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1969)

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

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X (51)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)
• Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics) by Jr. King, Dr. Martin Luther (78)

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

• The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand (1)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X (91)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 1)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (The Reader's List, 31)

National Book Award

• All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten (Contemporary Affairs, 1975)

National Book Award finalist

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1958)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• BACKLASH - The Undeclared War Against Women by SUSAN FALUDI (General Nonfiction, 1991)
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (General Nonfiction, 1997)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• And the Band Played On. Politics People And The AIDs Epidemic by Randy Shilts (General Nonfiction, 1987)
• The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson (General Nonfiction, 1992)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Play, 1968)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1970)
• All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten (1974)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1987)

New York Times bestseller

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1957)
• City of Night by John Rechy (Fiction, 1963)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1970)
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, 1973)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (General, 1963)
• The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan (General, 1972)
• The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by Arthur M. Schlesinger (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The fountain of age / Betty Friedan by Betty Friedan (Nonfiction, 1993)
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison (Nonfiction, 1995)
• Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Nonfiction, 2005)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Winner)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2009, No. 17)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (2009, No. 20)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2009, No. 24)
• Hamlet (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare (2009, No. 49)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X (2009, No. 97)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf
• Hamlet (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (2003)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2003)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2003)

Olivier Award

• Hamlet (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare (Best Revival, 2005)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Novel, 1969)

Prometheus Award

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Hall of Fame, 1983)

Prometheus Award nominee

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Novel, 1988)

Pulitzer Prize

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1988)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (7)
• Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (46)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (92)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Winner, 1988)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson (General, 1994)

Rómulo Gallegos

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1972)

Salon Book Award

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (Nonfiction, 1997)

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