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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby Dick: or The Whale by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• I Ching or Book of Changes (the Richard Wilhelm Translation) (1 - 14th century BCE)
• The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Upanishads (translated by Juan Mascaró) (7th–5th century BCE)
• Tao Te Ching (translated by Addiss and Lombardo) by Lao Tzu (3rd century BCE)
• The Analects (translated by DC Lau) by Confucius (5th–4th century BCE)
• The Dhammapada (translated by Juan Mascaró) (252 BCE)
• Plutarch's Lives (Dryden Edition, revised by Clough, 3 volumes) by Plutarch (120 AD)
• The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel (translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart) by François Rabelais (1534)
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal (1670)
• Candide by Voltaire (1759)
• War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy (1869)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Monkey (Penguin Classics) by Wu Cheng'en
• The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (2006 Edition)
• The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard (2006 edition)
• Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2006 Edition)
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (2006 Edition)
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (2006 Edition)
• The Brothers Karamazov (translated by David Magarshack) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• Billy Budd by Herman Melville (2006 Edition)
• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (2006 Edition)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (2006 Edition)
• L'éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel (translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart) by François Rabelais (2006/2008 Edition)
• Howards End (Penguin English Library) by E.M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby Dick: or The Whale by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (2006/2008 Edition)
• こころ by Natsume Soseki (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2006/2008 Edition)
• Demons (translated by Volokhonsky & Pevear) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (2006/2008 Edition)
• Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Tod in Venedig by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Waves (Hogarth Press, 1933) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le Pont sur la Drina by Ivo Andric (2006/2008 Edition)
• Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita (Harvill Panther) by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (2006/2008 Edition)
• Emma by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (translated by Jessie Coulson) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le livre du rire et de l'oubli by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (2006/2008 Edition)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Idiot (translated by David Magarshack) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Les Braises by Sandor Marai (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• Il Gattopardo by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le Noeud de vipères by François Mauriac (2008 Edition)
• Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig (2008 Edition)
• 千羽鶴 by Yasunari Kawabata (2008 Edition)
• Eugene Onegin by A.S. Pushkin (2008 Edition)
• Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (2008 edition)
• The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008 Edition)
• Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (2008 Edition)
• Moscow Stations by Venedikt Erofeev (2008 Edition)
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (2008 edition)
• Là-Bas by Joris Karl Huysmans (2008 Edition)

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

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (2009, No 503, Age 8 and over)
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (3)
• Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (16)

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

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (17)

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

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (9)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (25)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (3)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (22)
• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (30)
• Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (30)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (2)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (14)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (34)
• Ubik by Philip K. Dick (37)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (40)
• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (43)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1998, 12)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (2007, 54)

Académie française

• Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Grand prix du roman, 1939)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Oeuvre poétique by Léopold Sédar Senghor (creative writing, top twelve)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Life After Life by Raymond Moody (1976)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• King Lear (Wordsworth Classics) by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• Civilisation by Sir Kenneth Clark (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions) by Epictetus (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (Fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (translated by Jessie Coulson) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty by Mario Livio (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams ( Humor, 2001)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)

American Library Association - Notable Books for Adults - Fiction

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939)
• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
• A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (A Dance to the Music of Time (12 books 1951-75))
• The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh (1952)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (2004)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1994)
• The Diamond Age: or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson (1996)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2000)
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2004)

Bagutta

• Danube by Claudio Magris (1987)

BBC's Big Read

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Best loved novel, 2003, No 04)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 09)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 38)
• Emma by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 40)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (Best loved novel, 2003, No 45)
• Crime and Punishment (translated by Jessie Coulson) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
• The Master and Margarita (Harvill Panther) by Mikhail Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 138)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (Best loved novel, 2003, No 149)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 159)
• Moby Dick: or The Whale by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)

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

• The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) by Homer

Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2007)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Utz by Bruce Chatwin (1988)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
• Demons (translated by Volokhonsky & Pevear) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Bhagavad Gita (translated by Juan Mascaró)
• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse
• Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

British Academy Book Prize

• Reformation : Europe's House Divided by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

British Book Award

• The Art Book (Phaidon) (Illustrated Book of the Year, 1995)

British Science Fiction Association Award

• The Jonah Kit (Gollancz) by Ian Watson (1977)
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (Novel, 1978)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1993)
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2003)

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Carnegie Medal

• The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis (1956)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
• Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (Literary Classics)
• Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Literary Classics)
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Literary Classics)
• Journal d'un curé de campagne by Georges Bernanos (Literary Classics)
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Fiction, Silver, 1953)

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

• The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Ditmar Award

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (International Fiction, 1978)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (International Fiction, 1980)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (International Fiction, 1985)

Dolman Best Travel Book Shortlist

• The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2008)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Frozen Desire by James Buchan (1997)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (003)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (024)
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman (031)
• Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (037)
• The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah (078)

Franz Kafka Prize

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Gandalf

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Book, 1978)

Gaylactic Spectrum

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (Hall of Fame, 2003)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (Hall of Fame, 2001)

Geffen Award

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2002)
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2003)

Gigamesh

• The Rediscovery of Man (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Cordwainer Smith (Ciencia ficción, Antología, 1992)
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Fantasía, Novela, 1985)

Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

• Selected Poems by Roy Campbell (1968)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Roman étranger, 1997)

Guardian 1000

• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Comedy)
• Alms for Oblivion: Volume 1 by Simon Raven (Comedy)
• Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse (Comedy)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• Greenmantle by John Buchan (Crime)
• The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad (Crime)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Crime)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Crime)
• Crime and Punishment (translated by Jessie Coulson) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime)
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee (Family and self)
• Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac (Family and self)
• Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (Family and self)
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Howards End (Penguin English Library) by E.M. Forster (Family and self)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (Family and self)
• The Brothers Karamazov (translated by David Magarshack) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Family and self)
• Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Family and self)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Family and self)
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Love)
• Emma by Jane Austen (Love)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Love)
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Love)
• Der Tod in Venedig by Thomas Mann (Love)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Love)
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Love)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (Love)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (Love)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Love)
• Le livre du rire et de l'oubli by Milan Kundera (Love)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel (translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart) by François Rabelais (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Master and Margarita (Harvill Panther) by Mikhail Bulgakov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (State of the nation)
• Il Gattopardo by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (State of the nation)
• The Idiot (translated by David Magarshack) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
• L'éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert (State of the nation)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell (War and travel)
• Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (War and travel)
• Candide by Voltaire (War and travel)
• The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell (War and travel)
• War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy (War and travel)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (War and travel)
• Moby Dick: or The Whale by Herman Melville (War and travel)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (War and travel)
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (War and travel)
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (War and travel)
• The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell (War and travel)

Guardian Fiction Prize

• Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan (1995)

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