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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 1819-1880 (2006 Edition)
• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (2006 Edition)
• Between the Acts (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) by Ovid (2006 Edition)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (2006 Edition)
• She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard, 1856-1925 (2006 Edition)
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Woman in White (Giant Thrifts) by Wilkie Collins (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, Sir, 1771-1832 (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics) by Horace Walpole (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père (2006/2008 Edition)
• Regeneration by Pat Barker (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Penguin Classics) by James Hogg (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moll Flanders (Signet Classics) by Daniel Defoe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics) by H. Rider Haggard (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (2006/2008 Edition)
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (2006/2008 Edition)
• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (2006/2008 Edition)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2006/2008 Edition)
• David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Orlando (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (2006/2008 Edition)
• Silas Marner (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, 1819-1880 (2006/2008 Edition)
• Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Bram Stoker (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1819-1880 (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962 (2006/2008 Edition)
• Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics) by Ernst Jünger (2008 Edition)
• The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (2008 edition)

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

• Redwall (Redwall, Book 1) by Brian Jacques (2009, No 647, Age 8 and over)
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)
• The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition by Jacob Grimm (2009, Ages 5↑)

1952 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (7)

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

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (3)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (25)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (1)
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (8)
• The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (15)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (24)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (1)
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (5)
• The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White (6)
• Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Bram Stoker (19)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (22)
• Salem's Lot by Stephen King (32)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (1)
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (4)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (20)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (40)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (68)
• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett (91)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (70)
• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett (91)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1985)
• Arrows of the Queen ( The Heralds of Valdemar, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey (1987)
• Redwall (Redwall, Book 1) by Brian Jacques (1987)
• Swan Lake by Mark Helprin (1990)
• The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) by Robert Jordan (1991)
• Trader (Newford) by Charles de Lint (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Drama, 1999)
• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner (Drama, 1999)
• Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson (Biography, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (Fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962 (Fiction, 1999)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Fiction, 1999)
• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962 (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Welcome to Jasorassic Park: A FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend ( Teen Culture, 1999)
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ( Western, 2001)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Oxford Worlds Classics) by Owen Wister ( Western, 2001)
• Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) by Robert Jordan ( Flights of Fantasy: Beyond Harry and Frodo, 2003)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)
• Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey ( GLBTQ, 2006)
• The Stand by Stephen King ( What Ails you?, 2006)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts: A FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend (1997)
• Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Bram Stoker (1998)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Bending the Landscape : Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith (1999)
• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (2003)
• Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships by William Benemann (2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Dream Boy: A Novel by Jim Grimsley (1996)
• The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman (2002)

Alan Paton Award

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)
• Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader (1998)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) by Peter Novick (1989)

Alex Award

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright (Poetry, 1998)
• Vita Nova by Louise Gluck (Poetry, 2000)
• Averno: Poems by Louise Gluck (Poetry, 2007)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer (1948)
• The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White (1958)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1969)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• Vurt by Jeff Noon (1994)

Bancroft Prize

• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (1999)
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight (2002)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust (2009)

BBC's Big Read

• The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 01)
• Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1819-1880 (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club) by Ken Follett (Best loved novel, 2003, No 33)
• David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (Best loved novel, 2003, No 39)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 48)
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (Best loved novel, 2003, No 64)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)
• The Woman in White (Giant Thrifts) by Wilkie Collins (Best loved novel, 2003, No 77)
• Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Bram Stoker (Best loved novel, 2003, No 104)
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 114)
• Shogun by James Clavell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 119)
• Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (Best loved novel, 2003, No 122)
• 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)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Best loved novel, 2003, No 141)
• Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• Silas Marner (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 184)
• The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White (Best loved novel, 2003, No 198)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)

Best Selling Novel of the 19th Century

• Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1800-1900)

Betty Trask Award

• Ripley Bogle (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Robert McLiam Wilson (1990)

BILBY

• The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 2002)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

• Ararat (American Poetry Series) by Louise Gluck (1992)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (LEATHER BOUND) by Michael Chabon ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2008)

Booker Prize

• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1982)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984)

Booklist Editor's Choice

• Redwall (Redwall, Book 1) by Brian Jacques

Borges' A Personal Library

• Moll Flanders (Signet Classics) by Daniel Defoe
• The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins
• The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury (Collection, 1988)
• From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury (Novel, 2001)
• The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (P.S.) by Sam Weller (Non-Fiction, 2005)

British Academy Book Prize

• Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw (2001)

British Book Award

• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (History Book of the Year, 2004)
• Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees (History Book of the Year, 2006)

British Fantasy Award Nominee

• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 1977)
• Someplace to Be Flying (Newford) by Charles de Lint (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 1999)
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R.R. Martin (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2006)
• Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2006)
• Moonlight & Vines (Newford) by Charles de Lint (Collection, 2000)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (LEATHER BOUND) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2007)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Literary Classics)

CBA Libris Award

• How to Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2002)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout (History/Biography, 2007)

Christy Award Nominee

• Scarlet (The King Raven Trilogy, Book 2) by Stephen R. Lawhead (Visionary, 2008)

Christy Awards

• Scarlet (The King Raven Trilogy, Book 2) by Stephen R. Lawhead (Visionary, 2008)

Colorado Book Award

• The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America by David Baron (2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union (LEATHER BOUND) by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2007)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Fiction, Silver, 1953)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone (Fiction, Silver, 1961)
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauff (Nonfiction, Gold, 1982)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

Costa Shortlist

• The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox (First Novel, 2006)

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

• Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves

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