Awards in your library

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

• Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics) by Lao Tzu (3rd century BCE)
• The Analects (Penguin Classics) by Confucius (5th–4th century BCE)
• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• Plato: Republic by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Koran by N. J. Dawood (7th century)
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume (1740)
• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith (1776)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)
• On Liberty (HPC Classics Series) by John Stuart Mill (1859)
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second Edition, Enlarged) by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Arcadia: A Play by Tom Stoppard (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (2006/2008 Edition)
• THOUSAND CRANES by YASUNARI KAWABATA (2008 Edition)

Akutagawa

• Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Aghwee the Sky Monster by Kenzaburo Oe (1958)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng (1983)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Horoshima by John Hersey (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Gold medal, 2008)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Bancroft Prize

• The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History by Walter Lafeber (1998)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (2000)

BBC's Big Read

• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)

Borders Original Voices

• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin (2006)

C. Wright Mills Award

• Morality and Power in a Chinese Village by Richard Madsen (1984)

CBA Libris Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2003)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2004)

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

• Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
• The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Duff Cooper Prize

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2001)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter (Economics)
• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith (Economics)
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Investing)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (Non-fiction, 2003)

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson (2007)

Guardian 1000

• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime)
• Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Aghwee the Sky Monster by Kenzaburo Oe (Family and self)
• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (Family and self)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• Japan's Modern Myths by Carol Gluck (1986)
• Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Twentieth Century Japan : the Emergence of a World Power, No 1) by Andrew Gordon (1991)
• Offspring of Empire: The Koch'Ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) by Carter J. Eckert (1992)
• Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Twentieth Century Japan: the Emergence of a World Power, 8) by Louise Young (1998)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (1999)
• The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. by Kenneth Pomeranz (2000)

John Whitney Hall Book Prize

• Offspring of Empire: The Koch'Ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) by Carter J. Eckert (1994)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1886)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History, Updated Edition by Bruce Cumings (1997)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Emperor of Japan by Donald Keene (Nonfiction, 2002)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (1999)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (2)

Lillian Smith Award

• Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley by John Gaventa (1981)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (1990)
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2008)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001)
• The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye (2002)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2003)
• The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Revised Edition by Fareed Zakaria (2003)
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs (2006)
• Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2007)
• Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Richard J. Samuels (2008)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (History, 1999)
• The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared M. Diamond (Science and Technology, 1992)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (History, 2007)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (2000)

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

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (16)
• A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls (28)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (42)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second Edition, Enlarged) by Thomas S. Kuhn (69)
• The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914 by George Dangerfield (82)

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

• Free to Choose. A Personal Statement by Milton & Rose Friedman (14)
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (16)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (42)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (The Board's List, 1)
• Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 1)
• Anthem by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 7)

National Book Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)

National Book Award finalist

• Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1958)
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore (History and Biography, 1967)
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (Nonfiction, 1952)
• The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt (Nonfiction, 1959)
• The 9/11 Report: The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (Biography/Autobiography, 2000)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower (General Nonfiction, 1999)
• Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson (General Nonfiction, 2004)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

• Arcadia: A Play by Tom Stoppard (Play, 1994-1995)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Akenfield by Ronald Blythe (1969)
• A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls (1972)
• John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 (Keynesian Studies) by Robert Skidelsky (1986)
• The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (1990)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2002)

New York Times bestseller

• Webster's New World Dictionary by Victoria Neufeldt (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, 1984)
• Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1957)
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (General, 1943)
• Horoshima by John Hersey (General, 1946)
• The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence (Nonfiction, 1990)
• A History of the Arab Peoples: Second Edition by Albert Hourani (Nonfiction, 1991)
• Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary of State by George P. Shultz (Nonfiction, 1993)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (Nonfiction, 1998)
• 1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Revised Edition by Fareed Zakaria (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs (Nonfiction, 2005)
• The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris (Nonfiction, 2008)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (2009, No. 3)
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (2009, No. 33)
• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (2009, No. 34)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Ulyssess by James Joyce (Vintage Books) (2003)

Olivier Award

• Arcadia: A Play by Tom Stoppard (BBC Award for Best New Play, 1994)

PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2002)

Prometheus Award

• Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Rand (Hall of Fame, 1983)

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