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100 Essential New England Books

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Boston Globe, #7)

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

• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
• Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• Kritik der reinen Vernunft by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Rethinking the Western Tradition) by Edmund Burke (1790)
• Phänomenologie des Geistes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1807)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Child in Time by Ian Mcewan (2006 Edition)
• Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Watt by Samuel Beckett (2006 Edition)
• The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin (2006 Edition)
• The Newton Letter by John Banville (2006 edition)
• Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• Dead Babies by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006 Edition)
• Libra by Don DeLillo (2006 Edition)
• The Comfort of Strangers by Ian Mcewan (2006 edition)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (2006 Edition)
• The Information by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006 Edition)
• The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (2006 Edition)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006 Edition)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust (2006/2008 Edition)
• What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (2006/2008 Edition)
• All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Money by Martin Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Molloy by Samuel Beckett (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (2006/2008 Edition)
• Hunger by Knut Hamsun (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mao II: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (2006/2008 Edition)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
• America by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008 Edition)
• Disgrace (A Spectrum book) by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Master by Colm Toibin (2006/2008 Edition)
• White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008 Edition)
• Murphy by Samuel Beckett (2006/2008 Edition)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bonfire Of The Vanities by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William S. Burroughs (2006/2008 Edition)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Wasp Factory: A Novel by Iain Banks (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2008 edition)
• The Young Man by Botho Strauss (2008 Edition)
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (2008 Edition)
• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2008 Edition)
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008 Edition)
• A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz (2008 Edition)
• The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008 edition)
• The Savage Detectives by Bolano Roberto (2008 Edition)
• Der Tod des Vergil by Hermann Broch (2008 edition)
• The Line of Beauty: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst (2008 edition)
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2008 Edition)
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)

1956 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (25)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (40)

The Age Book of the Year Award

• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (Fiction, 1997)
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Fiction, 2001)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (5)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (5)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2006)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Blood Work by Michael Connelly ( Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)
• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Journey > Destination, 2009)
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman ( Twists on the Tale, 2010)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
• The Line of Beauty: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst (2005)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Master by Colm Toibin (2005)

Alex Award

• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2006)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

All Iowa Reads

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: February 2009

• The Vagrants: A Novel by Yiyun Li

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: May 2009

• Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: November 2009

• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: October 2009

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (#3)
• Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin (#4)
• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (#30)
• The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (#46)
• The Vagrants: A Novel by Yiyun Li (#53)
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis (#56)
• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (#88)
• Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (#94)
• The Anthologist: A Novel by Nicholson Baker (#98)

Amazon.com Best Books

• Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price (Literature & Fiction, 2008)

Ambassador Book Award

• Bonfire Of The Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1998)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

American Book Award

• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (1998)

American Library Association Notable Book

• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2007)

American Library Association Notable Book, 1981

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2008)

Anthony Award

• The Poet by Michael Connelly (Best Novel, 1997)
• Blood Work by Michael Connelly (Best Novel, 1999)

Anthony Award Nominee

• The Lincoln Lawyer : A Novel by Michael Connelly (Novel, 2006)

Anthony Award, Best Mystery Novel

• The Brass Verdict: A Novel by Michael Connelly (2009)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce (1939)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
• Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (1975)

APSA Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award

• Reasonable Democracy: Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse by Simone Chambers (1997)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2004)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2005)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Gold medal, 2007)

Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

Audie Award

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Literary Fiction, 2008)

Bancarella

• Angels Flight (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly (2000)

Barry Award

• Trunk Music by Michael Connelly - Hardcover First Edition by Michael Connelly (Novel, 1998)
• The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos (Novel, 2007)

Barry Award nominee

• Blood Work by Michael Connelly (Novel, 1999)
• Angels Flight (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly (Novel, 2000)
• RIGHT AS RAIN. by George P. Pelecanos (Novel, 2002)

BBC's Big Read

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 76)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 85)
• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Best loved novel, 2003, No 90)
• The Wasp Factory: A Novel by Iain Banks (Best loved novel, 2003, No 108)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 129)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 154)
• Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Audiobook - Adult Fiction, 2001)

Betty Trask Award

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2001)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2007)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Adult Fiction, 2008)

Booker Prize

• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (1995)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
• Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1998)
• Disgrace (A Spectrum book) by J.M. Coetzee (1999)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2000)
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)
• The Line of Beauty: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2006)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (2005)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005)
• The Emperor's Children (Vintage) by Claire Messud (2006)
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008)
• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (2008)
• The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2008)
• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (2008)
• Summertime: Fiction by J. M. Coetzee (2009)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
• The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (2009)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)
• Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2009)
• The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (2009)
• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (2009)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Comfort of Strangers by Ian Mcewan (1981)
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984)
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (1991)
• Black Dogs: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1992)
• The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel by Colm Toibin (1999)
• Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (1999)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003)
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller (2003)
• Master by Colm Toibin (2004)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2004)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
• On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2007)
• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (2008)
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008)
• Summertime: Fiction by J. M. Coetzee (2009)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
• The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (2009)
• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (2009)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009)
• The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (2009)

Booklist Top of the List: Best of Editors' Choice

• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2007)

Borders Original Voices

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2001)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

British Book Award

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Best Read of the Year, 2008)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (Literary Fiction, 2005)
• Birthday Letters: Poems by Ted Hughes (Book of the Year, 1999)
• On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Book of the Year, 2008)

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