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"Pigeon Feathers" selected for "The Best American Short Stories 1962."

Pigeon Feathers by John Updike

"The Doctor's Wife" selected for "O. Henry Prize Stories 1962."

Pigeon Feathers by John Updike

"Wife-wooing" selected for "O. Henry Prize Stories 1961."

Pigeon Feathers by John Updike

100 Essential New England Books

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Boston Globe)
Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Boston Globe, #7)

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

The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics) by Daniel Defoe (2006 Edition)
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006 Edition)
Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (2006 Edition)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
Siddhartha by Hermann; Rosner Hesse, Hilda (translator) (2006/2008 Edition)
The Cider House Rules by John Irving (2006/2008 Edition)
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (2006/2008 Edition)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (2006/2008 Edition)
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
Lawrence: Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 (A Viking compass book, C96) by D. H. Lawrence (2006/2008 Edition)
Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
Moll Flanders (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Defoe (2006/2008 Edition)
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (2006/2008 Edition)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
Like Life: Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) by Lorrie Moore (2006/2008 Edition)
The House of the Seven Gables (Riverside Literature Series, RLS R31) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006/2008 Edition)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (2006/2008 Edition)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
The Scarlet Letter (Signet Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
Jane Eyre (a signet classic) by charlotte bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2006/2008 Edition)
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Picador Books) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2006/2008 Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (2006/2008 Edition)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (2008 Edition)
Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (2008 Edition)

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Courage Literary Classic) by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)

AAR Top 100 Romances

Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (1998, 12)
Jane Eyre (a signet classic) by charlotte bronte (2004, 87)

ABA ABBY Winner

Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1991)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories by David Foster Wallace (1997)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)
The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (34)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (45)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Courage Literary Classic) by Mark Twain (83)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (84)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)
The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (39)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (42)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Courage Literary Classic) by Mark Twain (84)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (85)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1990)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1991)

ALA Notable Books

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Siddhartha by Hermann; Rosner Hesse, Hilda (translator) (Fiction, 1999)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Fiction, 1999)
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Fiction, 1999)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)
Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (History & Cultures, 2009)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ( Multicultural Fiction, 1997)
Siddhartha by Hermann; Rosner Hesse, Hilda (translator) (Books for the Soul, 1997)
Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Own Your Freak, 2005)
Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty (2000)
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1999)

Alex Award

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2003)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Today Show Book Club #11) by ZZ Packer (2004)

All Iowa Reads

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Ambassador Book Award

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor (Fiction, 1986)
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
A Thousand Acres (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Jane Smiley (Fiction, 1992)
The Angel on the Roof: The Stories Of by Russell Banks (Fiction, 2001)
Empire falls by Richard Russo (Fiction, 2002)
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)
Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

American Book Award

Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Leslie Marmon Silko (1980)
Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1985)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1988)
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (1996)
Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Divakaruni (1996)

American Library Association Notable Book

Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1984)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (1993)

American Library Association Notable Book, 1981

Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

Asian American Literary Award Shortlist

Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies (2001)

Association for Mormon Letters Award

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel by Brady Udall (Novel, 2001)

Bancarella

The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)

BBC's Big Read

Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
Jane Eyre (a signet classic) by charlotte bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Best loved novel, 2003, No 15)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Best loved novel, 2003, No 28)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Best loved novel, 2003, No 125)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Best loved novel, 2003, No 164)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (Best loved novel, 2003, No 165)
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Beyond Margins Award

Inheritance: A Novel by Lan Samantha Chang (2005)

Book Sense Book of the Year

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver ( Adult Winner, 2000)
The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2001)
House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) by Andre Dubus III ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2001)
Empire falls by Richard Russo ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel by Brady Udall ( Paperback Honor Book, 2003)
Bel Canto (P.S.) by Ann Patchett ( Paperback Winner, 2003)
Summerland by Michael Chabon (Children's Literature Honor Book, 2003)

Booker Prize

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)

Booker Prize Shortlist

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (1992)

Borges' A Personal Library

Moll Flanders (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Defoe

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (Novel, 1994)

Canada Reads Nominee

The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro (2004)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Literary Classics)

CBA Libris Award

The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro (Fiction Book of the Year, 1999)

Christianity Today Book Awards

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Fiction, Silver, 1989)
The Palace Thief: Stories by Ethan Canin (Fiction, Silver, 1994)
Old School by Tobias Wolff (Fiction, Silver, 2003)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Today Show Book Club #11) by ZZ Packer (First Fiction, Silver, 2003)

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

A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories by Norman Maclean

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1998)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2000)

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Under the Red Flag by Ha Jin (1997)

Giller

The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro (1998)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Great Lakes Book Award

Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor (Comedy)
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Comedy)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Picador Books) by Thomas Pynchon (Crime)
The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (Family and self)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Family and self)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Family and self)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Family and self)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Family and self)
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics) by Daniel Defoe (Family and self)
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Family and self)
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Family and self)
A Thousand Acres (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Jane Smiley (Family and self)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Family and self)
Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (Love)
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Love)
Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Love)
Lawrence: Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 (A Viking compass book, C96) by D. H. Lawrence (Love)
Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (Love)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (Love)
Jane Eyre (a signet classic) by charlotte bronte (Love)
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Love)
The Scarlet Letter (Signet Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Love)
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (Love)
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Love)
The House of the Seven Gables (Riverside Literature Series, RLS R31) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (State of the nation)
Moll Flanders (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Defoe (State of the nation)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Courage Literary Classic) by Mark Twain (State of the nation)
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (War and travel)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (War and travel)
Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (War and travel)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (War and travel)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

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