Awards in your library

Summary: 23 Awards.

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

• The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil. (19 BCE)
• Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch. (120 AD)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Oliver Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (2006/2008 Edition)
• Adam Bede by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer. (Poetry, 1999)

BBC's Big Read

• Lorna Doone : a romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore (Best loved novel, 2003, No 166)

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

• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer.

Borges' A Personal Library

• The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon
• The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil.

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh by Fridtjof Nansen (011)
• Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle r by Charles Darwin (023)
• Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69 by Edward Whymper (036)

Guardian 1000

• Oliver Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (Family and self)
• Tom Brown's school days by Thomas Hughes (Family and self)
• Adam Bede by George Eliot (Love)
• Lorna Doone : a romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore (Love)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle r by Charles Darwin (1960)

Howes P3

• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Miss by United States.

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• The Holy Bible
• The Life of Samuel Johnson by J. Boswell

National Book Award

• The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil. (Translation, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer. (Translation, 1968)

National Outdoor Book Award

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Classic, 2004)

NEA Big Read

• the poems of henry wadsworth longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 (2009)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer. (2009, No. 8)
• The Canterbury tales, from the text and with the notes and glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, condensed and arranged under the by Geoffrey Chaucer (2009, No. 11)
• Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books by John Milton (2009, No. 47)
• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (2009, No. 53)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil.
• The Canterbury tales, from the text and with the notes and glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, condensed and arranged under the by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman
• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer.

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (2006)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Life of Samuel Johnson by J. Boswell (2008)
• The Canterbury tales, from the text and with the notes and glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, condensed and arranged under the by Geoffrey Chaucer (2008)
• Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books by John Milton (2008)
• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer. (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Odyssey of Homer by Homer. ([trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996)

Washington 89-59

• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Miss by United States.

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• The Holy Bible (15)