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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Sula (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Jazz: A Novel by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006 Edition)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Crow Road by Iain Banks (2006/2008 Edition)
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Them by Joyce Carol Oates (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition by Doris Lessing (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nadja by Andre Breton (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) by Bernhard Schlink (2006/2008 Edition)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) by Alan Paton (2006/2008 Edition)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008 edition)

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

• The Red Pony-Bantam Hp4499 by John Steinbeck (2009, Ages 8↑)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• Salem's Lot by Stephen King (32)

ABA ABBY Winner

• THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE by Forrest Carter (1991)
• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (Adult, 1996)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1991)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (45)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (84)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (42)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (85)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present by Peter Nabokov (1978)
• Firestarter by Stephen King (1980)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1990)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1991)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2003)
• Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie (2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (French Edition) by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Fiction, 1999)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (History, 2004)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ( Multicultural Fiction, 1997)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) by Alan Paton ( Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Rose Madder by Stephen King ( Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts ( Relationships: Friends and Families, 2002)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (What Makes a Family?, 2008)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

Alex Award

• River, Cross My Heart: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Breena Clarke (2000)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z. Z Packer (2004)

Ambassador Book Award

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

American Book Award

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1988)
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (1999)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
• The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition by Doris Lessing (1962)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

Balrog Nominee

• Firestarter by Stephen King (Novel, 1981)

Bancarella

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

BBC's Big Read

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Best loved novel, 2003, No 164)
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature

• The Fall: A Novel by Simon Mawer (2003)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

Booker Prize

• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)

Bram Stoker

• Misery by Stephen King (Best Novel, 1988)

Bram Stoker Award

• Misery by Stephen King (Novel, 1987)

Bram Stoker Nominee

• Black House by Stephen King (Novel, 2001)
• Rose Madder by Stephen King (Superior Achievement in a Novel (Nomination below cutoff), 1995)
• Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (Superior Achievement in a Novel (Nomination below cutoff), 2001)

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

British Fantasy Nominee

• Firestarter by Stephen King (August Derleth Fantasy, Best Novel, 1981)
• Rose Madder by Stephen King (Best Novel, 1995)

Canada Reads Nominee

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

CBA Libris Award

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

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Fiction, Silver, 1989)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z. Z Packer (First Fiction, Silver, 2003)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

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

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

• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

CWA

• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (Gold Dagger, 2000)

CWA Gold Dagger

• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (2000)

Esquire Book of the Year

• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (1999)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1998)
• The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) by Bernhard Schlink (1999)

Geffen Award

• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2008)

Giller

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

Great Lakes Book Award

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

Guardian 1000

• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Comedy)
• Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (Crime)
• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (Crime)
• Misery by Stephen King (Crime)
• The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition by Doris Lessing (Family and self)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (Family and self)
• The Crow Road by Iain Banks (Family and self)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Family and self)
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Family and self)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Family and self)
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (Love)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love)
• The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) by Bernhard Schlink (Love)
• The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Love)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (Love)
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) by Alan Paton (State of the nation)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (War and travel)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (War and travel)

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

• The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels by Doris Lessing (2009)

Heartland Prize

• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Fiction, 1990)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Fiction, 1993)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present by Peter Nabokov (1979)

Hugo

• Danse Macabre by Stephen King (Best Related Non-Fiction Book , 1982)

International and US Councils of Woman Citation

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

International IMPAC Dublin

• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid (Shortlist, 1998)
• The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) by Bernhard Schlink (Shortlist, 1999)
• Paradise (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (Shortlist, 2000)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Shortlist, 2004)

IPPY Bronze

• Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools by Tim Giago (Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult, 2007)

Irish Times International Fiction Prize

• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993)

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