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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• I Ching Book of Changes by R Wilhelm (1 - 14th century BCE)
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Way of Lao Tzu Tao-Te Ching by Wing-tsit Chan (3rd century BCE)
• The Original Analects by E. Bruce. Brooks (5th–4th century BCE)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• Herodotus The Histories by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Nag Hammadi library in English by James M. Robinson (2nd Century)
• Leibniz: Philosophical Writings (Everyman's University Paperbacks) by Freiherr von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (1663)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng-en
• Persuasion (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen (2006 Edition)
• Aesop's Fables (Penguin Popular Classics) by Aesop (2006 Edition)
• Elective Affinities (Oxford World's Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008 Edition)
• Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• SCARLET LETTER (ENRICHED CLASSIC) (Enriched Classics) by Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (2006/2008 Edition)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Jungle (Bantam Classics) by Upton Sinclair (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (2006/2008 Edition)
• Silence by Shusaku Endo (2008 Edition)
• Outlaws of the Marsh (Chinese Classics 4-Volume Boxed Set) [BOX SET] (2008 edition)
• The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "San Kuo Chih Yen-I" by Guanzhong Luo (2008 Edition)
• Hong lou meng, 2 Vols. ('Dream of the Red Chamber' in Traditional Chinese Characters) by Xueqin Cao (2008 Edition)

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

• Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) by E. B. White (2009, No 220, Age 5 and over)
• Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) by Dr. Seuss (2009, No 333, Age 5 and over)
• Aesop's Fables (Penguin Popular Classics) by Aesop (2009, No 382, Age 8 and over)
• Charlie/chocolate by Roald Dahl (2009, No 561, Age 8 and over)

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

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (17)

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

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum (20)
• The Chronicles of Narnia Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (26)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (34)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Persuasion (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen (2007, 54)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• A Light in the Attic (51)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (83)
• The Story of Little Black Sambo (Wee Books for Wee Folk) by Helen Bannerman (90)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• A Light in the Attic (51)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (84)
• The Story of Little Black Sambo (Wee Books for Wee Folk) by Helen Bannerman (90)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions) by George Bernard Shaw (Drama, 1999)
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Hiroshima by John Hersey (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Fiction, 1999)
• The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith (Humanities, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (Bantam Starfire Book) by L.M. Montgomery ( Feel Good Books, 1998)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie ( Guess Again: Mystery and Suspense!, 2004)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret Hinsch (1991)

Alice Davis Hitchcock Award

• Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800-1200 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) by Kenneth J. Conant (1959)
• Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan (Architectural History Foundation Book) by Patricia Waddy (1991)

American Book Award

• Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown by Arnold Genthe (1985)

Anthony Award Nominee

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Novel Of The Century, 2000)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Novel Of The Century, 2000)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (1949)
• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Bancarella

• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway (1953)

Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)

BBC's Big Read

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Best loved novel, 2003, No 29)
• Charlie/chocolate by Roald Dahl (Best loved novel, 2003, No 35)
• Persuasion (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 38)
• ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (Bantam Starfire Book) by L.M. Montgomery (Best loved novel, 2003, No 41)
• Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 46)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Best loved novel, 2003, No 141)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Best loved novel, 2003, No 157)
• Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) by E. B. White (Best loved novel, 2003, No 170)
• Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri (Best loved novel, 2003, No 189)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2007) Stanley Lombardo translation

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Best Book of the Year - School Library Journal

• Behind the Attic Wall (Avon Camelot Books) by Sylvia Cassedy

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

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

BILBY

• Charlie/chocolate by Roald Dahl (read aloud, 1992)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
• The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
• Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad
• Herodotus The Histories by Herodotus

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• The Dark is Rising (The First Book in The Dark Is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper (Fiction, 1973)

British Book Award

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (Book of the Year, 1994)

Brothers Judd Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Caldecott Honor

• Madeline, Reissue of 1939 edition by Ludwig Bemelmans Author And Illustrator (1940)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Lord by Romano Guardini
• The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice Von Hildebrand
• Catechism of the Catholic Church by U.S. Catholic Church (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism by Louis Bouyer (Catholicism Explained/Theology)
• Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History by H. W. Crocker III (History and Culture)
• Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc (History and Culture)
• Apologia pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics) by John Newman (Holy Men and Women)
• Silence by Shusaku Endo (Literary Classics)
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• Orthodoxy: The Classic Account of a Remarkable Christian Experience (The Wheaton Literary Series) by G.K. Chesterton (Spiritual Classics)
• The City of God (Modern Library) by St. Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
• Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Third Edition by Therese de Lisieux (Spiritual Classics)
• True Devotion to Mary by Louis De Monfort (Spiritual Reading)
• Theology for Beginners by Francis Joseph Sheed (Spiritual Reading)
• The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise on Peace of Soul by Dom L. Scupoli (Spiritual Reading)

Children's Book Choice Selction - International Reading Association

• Behind the Attic Wall (Avon Camelot Books) by Sylvia Cassedy

Christianity Today Book Awards

• The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels by Luke Timothy Johnson (No. 22, 1996, tie)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (General Literature, Silver, 1939)
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Juvenile, Silver, 1969)
• Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization III) by Will Durant (Nonfiction, Gold, 1944)
• A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof (Nonfiction, Gold, 1985)
• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki (Nonfiction, Gold, 1989)

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

• Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Edgar Award

• The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc (First Novel, 1962)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller (Critical / Biographical, 1999)
• The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright (Juvenile, 1984)
• The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc (Novel, 1962)
• Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P D James (Novel, 1974)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Edgar Award Nominee, Juvenile

• The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright (1984)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (010)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Art of War: New Translation by Sun-tzu (Strategy)

François-Xavier Garneau Medal

• The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China by Timothy Brook (2005)

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

• The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc (International Prize, 1962)

Guardian 1000

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Crime)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Crime)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway (Family and self)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Family and self)
• Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse (Family and self)
• Silence by Shusaku Endo (Family and self)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Family and self)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (Love)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (Love)
• SCARLET LETTER (ENRICHED CLASSIC) (Enriched Classics) by Hawthorne (Love)
• Persuasion (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen (Love)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Chronicles of Narnia Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Longman ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate) by George Orwell (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (State of the nation)
• Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (State of the nation)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (State of the nation)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (State of the nation)
• The Jungle (Bantam Classics) by Upton Sinclair (State of the nation)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (War and travel)
• Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad (War and travel)
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (War and travel)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (War and travel)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

• Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie (2009)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (12)
• Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie (20)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
• The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
• Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics) by Victor Hugo

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• The Lord by Romano Guardini
• Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Third Edition by Therese de Lisieux
• Orthodoxy: The Classic Account of a Remarkable Christian Experience (The Wheaton Literary Series) by G.K. Chesterton
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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