Awards in your library

Summary: 30 Awards.

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

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Illiad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Aeneid (King Penguin) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• The Nature of the Universe by Ronald (translator) Lucretius; Latham (55 BCE)
• The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus (120 AD)
• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (The Library of Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics) by Augustine of Hippo (400 AD)
• The Koran by Alan Jones (7th century)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics ed.) by Ovid (2006 Edition)
• The transformations of Lucius: Otherwise known as The Golden Ass [Penguin classics, no L11] by Lucius; Graves Apuleius, Robert (translation) (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (Biography, 1999)

Ambassador Book Award

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (American Studies, 1997)

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

• The Illiad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

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

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid (King Penguin) by Virgil
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics) by Augustine of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)

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

• The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste. Croix

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste. Croix (1982)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus (Tragedy, 458 BCE)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Strategy)

Guardian 1000

• Porterhouse Blue - A Porterhouse Chronicle by Tom Sharpe (Comedy)

Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History

• The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006)

IPPY

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (32)

National Book Award

• The Aeneid (King Penguin) by Virgil (Translation, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Translation, 1968)
• The Nature of the Universe by Ronald (translator) Lucretius; Latham (Translation, 1969)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (Seamus Heaney translation, 2000)

New York Times bestseller

• Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Vol. 1) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 1991)
• Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 2) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 1992)
• The Last Command (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Vol. 3) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 1993)
• Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers (Fiction, 1993)
• The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars) by Dave Wolverton (Fiction, 1994)
• The Crystal Star (Star Wars (Random House Paperback)) by Vonda McIntyre (Fiction, 1994)
• Children of the Jedi (Star Wars) by Barbara Hambly (Fiction, 1995)
• Star Wars: Darksaber v. 8 (Star Wars) by Kevin J. Anderson (Fiction, 1995)
• Shadows of the Empire (Star Wars) by Steve Perry (Fiction, 1996)
• Star Wars: Planet of Twilight by Barbara Hambly (Fiction, 1997)
• Vision of the Future (Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn, Book 2) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 1998)
• Vector Prime (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 1) by R.A. Salvatore (Fiction, 1999)
• Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear (Fiction, 2000)
• Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (Fiction, 2000)
• Balance Point (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 6) by Kathy Tyers (Fiction, 2000)
• Star by Star (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 9) by Troy Denning (Fiction, 2001)
• Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter (Star Wars) by Michael Reaves (Fiction, 2001)
• Destiny's Way (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 14) by Walter Jon Williams (Fiction, 2002)
• The Unifying Force (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 19) by James Luceno (Fiction, 2003)
• Tatooine Ghost (Star Wars) by Troy Denning (Fiction, 2003)
• Survivor's Quest (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 2004)
• Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 1) by Drew Karpyshyn (Fiction, 2006)
• Betrayal (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 1) by Aaron Allston (Fiction, 2006)
• Outbound Flight (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 2006)
• Death Star (Star Wars) by Michael Reaves (Fiction, 2007)
• Sacrifice (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 5) by Karen Traviss (Fiction, 2007)
• Allegiance (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn (Fiction, 2007)
• Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 2) by Drew Karpyshyn (Fiction, 2008)
• Invincible (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 9) by Troy Denning (Fiction, 2008)
• A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (Nonfiction, 1991)
• Its True! Its True! by John Harper Kurt Angle (Nonfiction, 2001)
• 1421: the Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies (Nonfiction, 2003)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• The Illiad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2009, No. 28)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (2009, No. 31)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics) by Augustine of Hippo (2009, No. 32)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Aeneid (King Penguin) by Virgil
• The Illiad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics ed.) by Ovid
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Pulitzer Prize finalist (Poetry, 1994) Allen Mandelbaum translation

• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics ed.) by Ovid

Runciman Award

• PERSIAN FIRE: THE FIRST WORLD EMPIRE, BATTLE FOR THE WEST by TOM HOLLAND (2006)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (2004)

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

• Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 1) by Drew Karpyshyn (2006)

Spur Award

• Undaunted Courage - Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (Nonfiction-Historical, 1996)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius (2008)
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Library Classics) by Edward Gibbon (2008)
• The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics) by Augustine of Hippo (2008)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (2008)
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (2008)
• The Illiad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (2008)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer ([trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996)
• Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Railway that United America by Stephen Ambrose (Non-fiction (1), 2000)
• Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (Fiction (4), 2000)

Whitbread (Book of the Year, 1999) Seamus Heaney translation

• Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous