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Guardian 1000 (Comedy)

• Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh

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

• Kriget mellan Sparta och Athen by Thukydides (5th century BCE)
• Skrifter Staten by Platon (380 BCE)
• Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• Den gudomliga komedin by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• Dårskapens lov by Erasmus av Rotterdam (1509)
• Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• Tankar by Blaise Pascal (1670)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Burke (1790)
• War and Peace (Read Red) by L.N. Tolstoy (1869)
• Det andra könet by Simone de Beauvoir (1948)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Fiktioner by Jorge Luis Borges (2006 Edition)
• Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop (2006 Edition)
• The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift) by Henry James (2006 Edition)
• Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• The Information by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rött och svart : en berättelse från nittonde seklet by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kartusianklostret i Parma by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jorden runt på 80 dagar by Jules Verne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Elden : en halvtropps dagbok by Henri Barbusse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (2006/2008 Edition)
• Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Den tappre soldaten Svejks äventyr under världskriget by Jaroslav Hasek (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mannen utan egenskaper by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• Justine (Wordsworth Classic Erotica) by Marquis de Sade (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita (Penguin Classics) (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fanny Hill (Wordsworth Classic Erotica) by John Cleland (2006/2008 Edition)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mästaren och Margarita by Michail Afanasevic Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• Foucaults pendel by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace (Read Red) by L.N. Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rosens namn by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair (2006/2008 Edition)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• In Stahlgewittern by Ernst Jünger (2008 Edition)
• Baltasar och Blimunda by José Saramago (2008 Edition)
• Katten Murrs tankar om livet samt fragmentarisk biografi över kapellmästaren Johannes Kreisler i from av slumpvisa mak by E. T. A. Hoffmann (2008 Edition)
• Människans lott by André Malraux (2008 Edition)
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008 Edition)

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

• Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop (2009, No 382, Age 8 and over)

Académie française

• Kamrater på en irrande planet by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Grand prix du roman, 1939)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• If I Die in a Combat Zone (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Tim O'Brien (1973)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)

Alex Award

• Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
• The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and by Evelyn Waugh (1952)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Arthur Ross Book Award Shortlist

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2007)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Bancarella

• Foucaults pendel by Umberto Eco (1989)

BBC's Big Read

• War and Peace (Read Red) by L.N. Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 85)
• Mästaren och Margarita by Michail Afanasevic Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
• Rosens namn by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
• Lolita (Penguin Classics) (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)

Booker Prize

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Der Golem. Roman by Gustav Meyrink
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• The Difference Engine by William Gibson (1990)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Den gudomliga komedin by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Best Book, 2000)

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

• Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
• The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
• For Keeps by Pauline Kael
• What is History? with a new Introduction by Richard J Evans by Edward Hallett Carr
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson

Edgar Award Nominee

• And Never Let Her Go by Ann Rule (Fact Crime, 2000)
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (First Novel, 1951)
• Rosens namn by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Kamrater på en irrande planet by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (003)

Finlandia Prize

• Urwind : roman by Bo Carpelan (1993)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough (The Corporation)
• Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden (Strategy)
• Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

Guardian 1000

• Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (Comedy)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Comedy)
• The Information by Martin Amis (Comedy)
• Rosens namn by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (Crime)
• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Crime)
• Cop Hater (Crime Essentials) by Ed McBain (Crime)
• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• Mannen utan egenskaper by Robert Musil (Family and self)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Family and self)
• The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford (Love)
• Lolita (Penguin Classics) (Love)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Love)
• Mästaren och Margarita by Michail Afanasevic Bulgakov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift) by Henry James (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Foucaults pendel by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Twentieth Century Classics) by G.K. Chesterton (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
• Rött och svart : en berättelse från nittonde seklet by Stendhal (State of the nation)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
• Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair (State of the nation)
• Den tappre soldaten Svejks äventyr under världskriget by Jaroslav Hasek (War and travel)
• Jorden runt på 80 dagar by Jules Verne (War and travel)
• Människans lott by André Malraux (War and travel)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (War and travel)
• War and Peace (Read Red) by L.N. Tolstoy (War and travel)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (War and travel)
• Krigets sorger by Bao Ninh (War and travel)
• Put Out More Flags (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (War and travel)
• Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Joseph Conrad (War and travel)
• Kartusianklostret i Parma by Stendhal (War and travel)

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

• In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower Vol 2 (In Search of Lost Time 2) by Marcel Proust (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Der Golem. Roman by Gustav Meyrink

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

• The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk (1990)
• Krigets sorger by Bao Ninh (1994)

International IMPAC Dublin

• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Winner, 2003)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, the by Francis Yeats-Brown (Biography, 1930)
• Experience by Martin Amis (Biography, 2000)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (Fiction, 1980)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

• The Difference Engine by William Gibson (1992)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (3)
• Lolita (Penguin Classics) (9)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (28)
• Stora pengar by John Dos Passos (58.3)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (92)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2007)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Dover Thrift) by Thomas De Quincey
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Current Interest, 2001)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (History, 2006)

LOST Book Club

• The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift) by Henry James
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• Mannen utan egenskaper by Robert Musil (1958)
• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (2002)

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

• Låt höra av dig, minne by Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov (8)
• The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell (75)

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

• Låt höra av dig, minne by Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov (28)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (The Board's List, 1)
• Lolita (Penguin Classics) (The Board's List, 4)
• The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford (The Board's List, 30)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (The Board's List, 52)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (The Board's List, 67)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (The Board's List, 74)
• Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh (The Board's List, 75)
• Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Joseph Conrad (The Board's List, 85)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (The Reader's List, 21)

Médicis

• Rosens namn by Umberto Eco (Étranger, 1982)
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Étranger, 2005)

National Book Award

• Kamrater på en irrande planet by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell (Arts and Letters, 1976)
• The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch (Current Interest (Paperback), 1980)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1974)
• The Story of My Life (Penguin Classics) by Giacomo Casanova (Translation, 1967)

National Book Award finalist

• The Executioner's Song (Modern Library) by Norman Mailer (Fiction (Hardcover), 1980)
• Lolita (Penguin Classics) (Fiction, 1959)
• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1998)
• Att ljuga : moraliska val i offentligt och enskilt liv by Sissela Bok (General Nonfiction (Paperback), 1980)
• Shores of Light by Wilson Edmund (Nonfiction, 1953)
• Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden (Nonfiction, 1999)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Nonfiction, 2006)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell (Criticism, 1975)
• Att behaga en skugga : valda essäer by Joseph Brodsky (Criticism, 1987)
• The Total Library: Non-fiction, 1922-1986 (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges (Criticism, 1999)
• The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis (Criticism, 2001)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk (Autobiography/Memoir, 2005)
• The Executioner's Song (Modern Library) by Norman Mailer (Fiction, 1979)
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Fiction, 1999)
• Att ljuga : moraliska val i offentligt och enskilt liv by Sissela Bok (General Nonfiction, 1978)

A National Geographic Top Ten Adventure Book of All Time

• Kamrater på en irrande planet by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

National Outdoor Book Award

• Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau (Classic, 2004)

NEA Big Read

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2009)

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