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

• The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)
• The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx (1848)
• I And Thou by Martin Buber (1923)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (2009, No 542, Age 8 and over)
• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe (2009, No 732, Age 12 and over)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2009, Ages 8↑)

Agatha Award Nominee

• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Novel, 2001)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (50)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (56)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

Anthony Award

• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Best Paperback Original, 2002)

BBC's Big Read

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Best loved novel, 2003, No 145)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)

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

• The Odyssey by Homer

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (Literary Classics)
• St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

Eisner Award

• I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks (Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books, 2008)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2002)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Taleb Nassim Nicholas (Investing)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

Guardian 1000

• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (Comedy)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (State of the nation)
• The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (War and travel)
• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe (War and travel)

Guardian First Book Award

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2008)

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

• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Night by Elie Wiesel
• I And Thou by Martin Buber

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Book, 2001)

Lambda Literary Award

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Humor, 2000)
• Fraud: Essays by David Rakoff (Humor, 2001)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (22)

Locus Recommended Reading

• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Fantasy Novel, 2001)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah (Current Interest, 1985)

LOST Book Club

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Board's List, 2)

National Book Award finalist

• The Odyssey by Homer (Translation, 1968)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (Criticism, 2007)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Forms of Talk (University of Pennsylvania Publications in Conduct & Communication) by Erving Goffman (General Nonfiction, 1981)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1974)
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (1978)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2007)

New York Times bestseller

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Fiction, 1943)
• The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills (General, 1956)
• Iberia by James A. Michener (General, 1968)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2001)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition by Oliver Sacks (Nonfiction, 2007)
• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Odyssey by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009, No. 18)
• St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (2009, No. 32)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (2009, No. 76)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (1)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (2003)
• Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe (2003)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• Night by Elie Wiesel (2006)

Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2007, No 07)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1991)
• The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Penguin Classics) by Vincent Van Gogh (1997)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Americans: The Democratic Experience v.3 (Vol 3) by Daniel J. Boorstin (History, 1974)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah (General Non-Fiction, 1986)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (General Nonfiction, 2008)

Quill Award

• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart (Humor, 2005)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2008)

Stephen T. Colbert Award for The Literary Excellence

• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (2007)

SWR-Bestenliste

• Canzoniere (Fyfield Books) by Petrarch (1990)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (2008)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
• The Odyssey by Homer (2008)

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