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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• The I Ching or Book of Changes (Bollingen Series) (1 - 14th century BCE)
• Candide (Dover Thrift) by Voltaire (1759)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Glass Key by Hammett Dashiell (2006 Edition)
• Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (2006 Edition)
• Killer Inside ME (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Jim Thompson (2006 Edition)
• Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller (2006 Edition)
• Strait is the gate by André Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
• Junky by William S. Burroughs (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Immoralist by Andre Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
• Growth of the soil by Knut Hamsun (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cat's Cradle by Jr. Vonnegut, Kurt (2006/2008 Edition)
• In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (2006/2008 Edition)
• Spring Torrents (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
• On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin (2006/2008 Edition)
• INDEPENDENT PEOPLE by Laxness Halldor (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James C. Cain (2006/2008 Edition)
• James Joyce a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Perennial Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008 Edition)
• The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• The stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddhartha (Picador Books) by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis De Bernieres (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Henry Miller (2006/2008 Edition)
• The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (2008 edition)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2)

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

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (22)

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

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (15)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• The man in the high castle,: A novel by Philip K. Dick (22)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• The man in the high castle,: A novel by Philip K. Dick (14)

A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Translation

• Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) by Prince Ilango Adigal, Danielou, Alain, Translated By (1996, to Rajagopal Parthasarathy)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (54)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (52)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven (1974)
• Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (1986)
• Monarch of Deadman Bay by Roger A. Caras (1986)
• Iron and Silk (Vintage Departures) by M. Salzman (1987)
• The End of Nature by Bill Mckibben (1990)
• Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll (1991)
• Far North by Will Hobbs (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Silent spring by Rachel Carson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha (Picador Books) by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Fiction, 1999)
• A Sand County Almanac (Galaxy Books) by Aldo Leopold (Science & Technology, 2009)
• What color is your parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams ( The Stories of Our Lives, 1997)
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ( Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Siddhartha (Picador Books) by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Journey > Destination, 2009)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Far North by Will Hobbs (1997)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Campus, No 333) by Calvin Martin (1979)

American Institute of Physics Prize

• Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris

Anthony Award Nominee

• The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Novel Of The Century, 2000)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Novel Of The Century, 2000)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)

Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

• Dead Low Tide by John D. MacDonald (1953)

BBC's Big Read

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis De Bernieres (Best loved novel, 2003, No 19)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Perennial Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 85)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 87)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Best loved novel, 2003, No 90)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Audiobook - Adult Fiction, 2001)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• Glass Key by Hammett Dashiell
• Gone, no forwarding by Joe Gores
• Double indemnity by James M. Cain
• Devil in a Blue Dress (Mask Noir) by Walter Mosley
• Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
• Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
• Killer Inside ME (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Jim Thompson

Booker Prize

• The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Waxwings by Jonathan Raban (2003)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Reef by Romesh Gunesekera (1994)

Borders Original Voices

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2001)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Sivananda
• Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse

British Guild of Food Writers

• A cook's tour : in search of the perfect meal by Anthony Bourdain (Food Book of the Year, 2002)

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Klamath Knot (Explorations of Myth and Evolution) by David Rains Wallace (Californiana, Silver, 1983)
• All the Little Live Things (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner (Fiction, Silver, 1967)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis De Bernieres (Best Book, Europe and South Asia, 1995)

The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award

• Silent spring by Rachel Carson (merit in the realm of books, Women's National Book Association)

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

• Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness by Edward Abbey
• Refuge: an Unnatural History of Family and Place by Williams Terry Tempest

CWA

• Devil in a Blue Dress (Mask Noir) by Walter Mosley (New Blood Dagger, 1991)

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

• The Immoralist by Andre Gide
• The stranger by Albert Camus

Duff Cooper Prize

• The peregrine by J. A. Baker (1967)
• North: Poems by Seamus Heaney (1975)

Edgar Award

• A Time of Predators by Joe Gores (First Novel, 1970)
• The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Novel, 1955)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Devil in a Blue Dress (Mask Noir) by Walter Mosley (First Novel, 1991)
• And the Deep Blue Sea by Charles Williams (Paperback Original, 1972)

Evans Biography Award

• Refuge: an Unnatural History of Family and Place by Williams Terry Tempest (1991)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak (26,493 feet) by Maurice Herzog (006)
• Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness by Edward Abbey (007)
• The man who walked through time by Colin Fletcher (045)
• Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen (050)
• Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock (099)

Falcon Award

• Hammett : a novel by Joe Gores (1986)

Femina

• Night Flight by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1931)

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

• A Key to the Suite by John D. MacDonald (International Prize, 1964)

Guardian 1000

• The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Crime)
• The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Crime)
• The Getaway by Jim Thompson (Crime)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (Mask Noir) by Walter Mosley (Crime)
• Double indemnity by James M. Cain (Crime)
• Glass Key by Hammett Dashiell (Crime)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James C. Cain (Crime)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Crime)
• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Crime)
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Family and self)
• Lafcadio's Adventures (Les Caves Du Vatican) by Andre. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy Gide (Family and self)
• The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Family and self)
• The stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)
• James Joyce a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Immoralist by Andre Gide (Family and self)
• Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Henry Miller (Love)
• Strait is the gate by André Gide (Love)
• The man in the high castle,: A novel by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
• One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (State of the nation)
• Candide (Dover Thrift) by Voltaire (War and travel)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (War and travel)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Perennial Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (War and travel)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (War and travel)
• Fair stood the wind for France by H. E. Bates (War and travel)

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

• The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett (16)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James C. Cain (21)
• Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich (27)
• The high window by Raymond Chandler (31)
• The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler (49)
• Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson (60)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria; MacIntyre Rilke, C. F. (Translated by)
• Mount Analogue: A Novel of Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by Rene Daumal
• Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (Shambhala Dragon Editions) by Ramana Maharshi
• Black Elk speaks; being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones a Collection of Zen & Pre-zen Writings by Paul; Compiler Reps
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• Cutting through spiritual materialism by Trungpa Tulku Choegyam Trungpa
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Siddhartha (Picador Books) by Hermann Hesse
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

Hugo

• The man in the high castle,: A novel by Philip K. Dick (Novel, 1963)

Hugo Nominee

• Cat's Cradle by Jr. Vonnegut, Kurt (Novel, 1964)
• A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger (Novel, 1990)

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