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100 Essential New England Books

• Affliction by Russell Banks (Boston Globe, #24)

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

• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Years by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
• After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami (2006 Edition)
• Pastoralia : stories by George Saunders (2006 Edition)
• The violent bear it away by Flannery O'Connor (2006 edition)
• Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter (2006 edition)
• Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offense by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (2006 Edition)
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2006 Edition)
• Sula by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• Hebdomeros (PAJ Books) by Giorgio de Chirico (2006 Edition)
• A Heart So White (Panther) by Javier Marias (2006 Edition)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Golden Bowl by Henry James (2006 Edition)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (2006 Edition)
• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• In Watermelon sugar the Deeds Were Done and Done Again as My Life is Done in Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (2006/2008 Edition)
• The path to the nest of spiders by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas; Lowe-Porter Mann, H. T. [translator] (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nun, The (Signet Bks.) by Denis Diderot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (2006/2008 Edition)
• Doctor Faustus, The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told By a Friend by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tender Is the Night (Wordsworth Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (2006/2008 Edition)
• Against the Grain (À Rebours) by J. K. Huysmans (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rituals (Harvest Book) by Cees Nooteboom (2006/2008 Edition)
• I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm (2006/2008 Edition)
• All About H. Hatterr: A Novel by G. V. Desani (2006/2008 Edition)
• The AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Regeneration by Pat Barker (2006/2008 Edition)
• Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek (2006/2008 Edition)
• The End of the Story (High Risk Books) by Lydia Davis (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jacques, the fatalist, and his master by Denis Diderot (2006/2008 Edition)
• What I Loved: A Novel by Siri Hustvedt (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (2006/2008 Edition)
• Malone dies by Samuel Beckett (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Forsyte Saga (Books I, II & III), Charles Scribner's Sons by John Galsworthy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead by Heinrich Böll (2006/2008 Edition)
• Howards End by E.M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Orlando; a biography by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Shipping News by Annie E. Proulx (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006/2008 Edition)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008 Edition)
• Emma (Collector's Library) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby by Nicolas Tredell (2006/2008 Edition)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cement Garden (Picador Books) by Ian McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Zeno's Conscience (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Italo Svevo (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady (International Collectors Library) (International Collectors Library) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• The bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible cities by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dead Souls: A Novel by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
• Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1935 Random House (The Modern Library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Grapes of Wrath [A Viking Compass Book] by John Steinbeck (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• ULYSSES. With a Forward by Morris L. Ernst and the Decision of the United States District Court Rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey. by James. [Mod Lib]. Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iu'Evich Lermontov (2008 Edition)
• Your Face Tomorrow: Volume I: Fever and Spear (New Directions Paperbook) by Javier Marias (2008 Edition)
• La-Bas (Down There) by Joris K. Huysmans (2008 Edition)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2008 edition)
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke (2008 edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)

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

• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2009, Ages 12↑)

Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominee

• Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (2005)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2006)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

• Howards End by E.M. Forster (1992)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee

• The Grapes of Wrath [A Viking Compass Book] by John Steinbeck (1940)
• ULYSSES. With a Forward by Morris L. Ernst and the Decision of the United States District Court Rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey. by James. [Mod Lib]. Joyce (1967)
• Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1993)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1999)
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Susan Orlean (2002)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2002)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan (2007)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• Brief interviews with hideous men by David Foster Wallace (1997)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (45)
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (84)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (42)
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (85)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman (1992)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2004)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi (2005)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon (1998)
• Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (1999)
• Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore (1999)
• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (2000)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2000)
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston (2000)
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Susan Orlean (2000)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)
• Don't Tell Anyone: Fiction by Frederick Busch (2001)
• The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams (2001)
• Among the Missing by Dan Chaon (2002)
• Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories by Lydia Davis (2002)
• Island: The Collected Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod by Alistair MacLeod (2002)
• Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2002)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan (2003)
• The cave by José Saramago (2004)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (2004)
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (2004)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (2004)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky (2005)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006)
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (2007)
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2007)
• The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel by Debra Dean (2007)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (2007)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2008)
• Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (2008)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan (2008)
• Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen (2009)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (Biography, 1999)
• The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Member of the Wedding (New Directions Paperbook) by Carson McCullers (Fiction, 1999)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• The Grapes of Wrath [A Viking Compass Book] by John Steinbeck (Fiction, 1999)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)
• The AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (Fiction, 1999)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Social Sciences, 2004)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman ( Going Alternative, 1997)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (What Ails you?, 2006)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• The Pop-Up Book of Phobias by Gary Greenberg (2001)

ALA Rainbow List

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Young Adult Nonfiction, 2008)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1999)
• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2005)
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2007)

Alex Award

• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (2002)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (2004)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2004)
• Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America by Steve. Almond (2005)

All Iowa Reads

• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (2003)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Amazon 25 Greatest Erotic Books of All Time

• Orlando; a biography by Virginia Woolf

Ambassador Book Award

• Cities on a Hill: A Brilliant Exploration of Visonary Communities Remaking the American Dream by Frances FitzGerald (American Studies, 1987)
• The bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (American Studies, 2007)
• The Afterlife: A Memoir by Donald Antrim (Autobiography, 2007)
• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel (Fiction, 2007)

American Book Award

• The salt eaters by Toni Cade Bambara (1981)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)
• Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman (1992)

And/Or Book Award

• Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 by Matthew S. Witkovsky (Photography, 2008)

Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2001)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (2004)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (1952)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

Aristeion

• The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom (Literary, 1993)

Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan

Author's Club First Novel Award

• Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries (2000)

Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro (1986)

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Susan Orlean (2002)

Barnes & Noble Discover Award

• Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Alison Smith (Nonfiction, 2004)

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

• Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris

BBC's Big Read

• The Grapes of Wrath [A Viking Compass Book] by John Steinbeck (Best loved novel, 2003, No 29)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• Emma (Collector's Library) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 40)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby by Nicolas Tredell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• ULYSSES. With a Forward by Morris L. Ernst and the Decision of the United States District Court Rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey. by James. [Mod Lib]. Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 85)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)
• The Forsyte Saga (Books I, II & III), Charles Scribner's Sons by John Galsworthy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 123)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Best loved novel, 2003, No 124)
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 142)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 154)
• The Shipping News by Annie E. Proulx (Best loved novel, 2003, No 164)
• Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Best loved novel, 2003, No 196)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

• Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe (2001)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2005)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Susan Orlean (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2001)
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2002)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ( Paperback Winner, 2003)
• Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis ( Rediscovery Honor Book, 2003)
• Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)
• Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America by Steve. Almond ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2005)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (Adult Nonfiction Honor Books, 2007)
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2007)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2008)
• Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2008)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2004)

Booker Prize

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
• Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (2002)

Booker Prize Longlist

• According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (2001)
• The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith (2002)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (2004)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)
• Beyond Black: A Novel (John MacRae Books) by Hilary Mantel (2005)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2005)
• Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan (2006)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch (1987)
• Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offense by Martin Amis (1991)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1996)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan (2001)
• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2004)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan (2007)

Books in Canada First Novel Award Shortlist

• NO GREAT MISCHIEF by Alistair MacLeod (1999)

Borders Original Voices

• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (2007)
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (2007)

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

• Atonement : a novel by Ian. McEwan

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (First Novel, 2000)

British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature

• Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (1997)

British Book Award

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (Literary Fiction Award Shortlist, 2005)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (Newcomer of the Year, 2006)
• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Book of the Year, 1999)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan (Book of the Year, 2008)

British Book Design and Production Award

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Best Jacket / Cover Design, 2007)

British Fantasy Award Nominee

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2005)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (2004)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2007)

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