Awards in your library

Summary: 39 Awards.

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

• The Iliad by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Herodotus by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic of Plato by Plato (380 BCE)
• De rerum natura libri sex by Titus Lucretius Carus (55 BCE)
• The confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (400 AD)
• The Vision ; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
• Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1684)
• Pragmatism by William James (1908)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• The return of the native by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The hand of Ethelberta : a comedy in chapters by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Temptation of Saint Antony. Authorised edition, translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan. I by Gustave Flaubert (2006 Edition)
• The Childermass. Section 1 by Wyndham Lewis (2006 edition)
• The life and death of the mayor of Casterbridge : a story of a man of character by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Camilla: or, a picture of youth. By the author of Evelina and Cecilia. In three volumes. by Fanny Burney (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bouvard and Pécuchet. Authorised edition. Translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan ... Illustr by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Marius The Epicurean : his sensations and ideas by Walter Pater (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (2006/2008 Edition)
• Hadrian the seventh : a romance by Frederick William Rolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis (2006/2008 Edition)
• The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius by Lucius Apuleius (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a Utopian romance by William Morris (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sentimental Education. A young man's history ... Translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan ... I by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there by Lewis Carroll (2006/2008 Edition)
• The tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki (2008 Edition)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1998, 12)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer (Poetry, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)

BBC's Big Read

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 48)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 111)
• The life and death of the mayor of Casterbridge : a story of a man of character by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 115)

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

• The Iliad by Homer

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

• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer

Borges' A Personal Library

• Poems of William Blake by William Blake
• A Play, Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
• The Great God Brown: including The Fountain, The Dreamy Kid and Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill
• An Experiment with Time by J. W. Dunne
• The Temptation of Saint Antony. Authorised edition, translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan. I by Gustave Flaubert
• Peer Gynt : a Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen
• The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
• Herodotus by Herodotus

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Vision ; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
• The Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross (Spiritual Classics)
• The confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (Spiritual Classics)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Seven pillars of wisdom: : a triumph by Thomas Edward Lawrence (024)
• Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty (051)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• The Hippolytus of Euripides by Euripides (Tragedy, 428 BCE)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Guardian 1000

• Bouvard and Pécuchet. Authorised edition. Translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan ... Illustr by Gustave Flaubert (Comedy)
• The adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana by Alain René Le Sage (Comedy)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Family and self)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (Family and self)
• The woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (Love)
• Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (Love)
• Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (Love)
• Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy (Love)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Love)
• Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there by Lewis Carroll (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a Utopian romance by William Morris (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The life and death of the mayor of Casterbridge : a story of a man of character by Thomas Hardy (State of the nation)
• Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac (State of the nation)
• Sentimental Education. A young man's history ... Translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan ... I by Gustave Flaubert (State of the nation)
• Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (State of the nation)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The candle of vision by George William Russell
• Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• The idea of the holy : An inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rationa by Rudolf Otto
• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams

Hawthornden Prize

• The stricken deer; or, The life of Cowper by Lord David Cecil (1929)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• The stricken deer; or, The life of Cowper by Lord David Cecil (Biography, 1929)
• The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty (Fiction, 1925)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Ulysses by James Joyce (2)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (21)
• Dubliners by James Joyce (63)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Boswell's Life of Johnson (6 vols.) by James Boswell
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. by Thomas de Quincey

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

• The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography by Henry Adams (1)

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

• The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography by Henry Adams (51)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Ulysses by James Joyce (The Board's List, 1)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (The Board's List, 3)
• Point counter point by Aldous Huxley (The Board's List, 44)

National Book Award

• Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire (Translation, 1983)

National Book Award finalist

• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer (Translation, 1968)
• De rerum natura libri sex by Titus Lucretius Carus (Translation, 1969)
• The Purgatory of Dante Alighieri: An Experiment in Literal Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri (Translation, 1983)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Winterset, a play in three acts by Maxwell Anderson (American Play, 1935-1936)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot (1971)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Vision ; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (2009)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2009, No. 3)
• The Iliad by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2009, No. 9)
• Herodotus by Herodotus (2009, No. 28)
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (2009, No. 31)
• The confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (2009, No. 32)
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (2009, No. 47)
• The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography by Henry Adams (2009, No. 87)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
• The Vision ; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sentimental Education. A young man's history ... Translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan ... I by Gustave Flaubert
• Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
• The Iliad by Homer
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Complete in 2 Volumes by Giovanni Boccaccio
• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (2003)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (2003)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2003)
• Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (2003)

Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais

• Gruach, and Britain's Daughter: Two Plays by Gordon Bottomley (1923)

Pulitzer Prize

• The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography by Henry Adams (Biography or Autobiography, 1919)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Ulysses by James Joyce (6)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (14)

SWR-Bestenliste

• Ulysses by James Joyce (1976)
• Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne (1998)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• The confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (2008)
• Boswell's Life of Johnson (6 vols.) by James Boswell (2008)
• Seven pillars of wisdom: : a triumph by Thomas Edward Lawrence (2008)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2008)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2008)
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (2008)
• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer (2008)
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (2008)
• The Iliad by Homer (2008)
• Herodotus by Herodotus (2008)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• The Odysseys of Homer by Homer ([trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996)

Waterstones Books of the Century

• Ulysses by James Joyce (1997, No 4)

Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books

• Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there by Lewis Carroll (1997, No 57)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (3)

Århundrets bibliotek

• Ulysses by James Joyce