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100 Essential New England Books

• The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston Globe, #19)

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

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Ser.) by Emil V. (translator) Homer; Rieu (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Peloponnesian War (Modern Library College Editions) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Aeneid of Virgil (Scribner Library) (19 BCE)
• The Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)
• Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung (1966)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Catch-22 (A Dell book) by Joseph Heller (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (2009, Ages 8↑)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009, Ages 12↑)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)

Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominee

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2006)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

• The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty (1935)
• The lion in winter (A Dell book) by James Goldman (1968)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1974)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1941)
• Brave Men by Ernie Pyle (1945)
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1951)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Soul on ice. by Eldridge Cleaver (1968)
• Or I'll dress you in mourning by Larry Collins (1968)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1980)
• The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel (1984)
• THE AMATEUR NATURALIST by Gerald Durrell (1984)
• The riddle of the dinosaur by John Noble Wilford (1986)
• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (1990)
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (1992)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2001)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1998)
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (1999)
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (2003)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2006)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (2005)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Ser.) by Emil V. (translator) Homer; Rieu (Poetry, 1999)
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Drama, 1999)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Drama, 1999)
• Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie (Biography, 1999)
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Stephen E. Ambrose (Biography, 1999)
• Civilization by Clark Kenneth (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Fiction, 1999)
• Catch-22 (A Dell book) by Joseph Heller (Fiction, 1999)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Humanities, 2004)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (History, 2004)
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (History, 2004)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (What’s so Funny?, 2007)

Alan Paton Award

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Alex Award

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2001)

Ambassador Book Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (American Studies, 1993)
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Stephen E. Ambrose (American Studies, 1997)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett (1997)

Anthony Award Nominee

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Novel Of The Century, 2000)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Catch-22 (A Dell book) by Joseph Heller (1961)

Apollo Award

• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1973)

Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro (1986)

Bancarella

• The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan (1962)

BBC's Big Read

• Catch-22 (A Dell book) by Joseph Heller (Best loved novel, 2003, No 11)
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (Best loved novel, 2003, No 68)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 91)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (1993)

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

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

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

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Ser.) by Emil V. (translator) Homer; Rieu

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid of Virgil (Scribner Library)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• The Way Things Work by David Macaulay (Non-Fiction, 1989)

British Science Fiction Association Award

• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969)

Carl Sandburg Award

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (2003)

Caroline Bancroft History Prize

• The Contested Plains Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West (1999)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes (Literary Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

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

• In The Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

Duff Cooper Prize

• A History of Warfare by John Keegan (1993)

Edgar Award

• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L. Swanson (Fact Crime, 2007)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1998)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (026)

Fletcher Pratt Award

• This Hallowed Ground by Bruce Catton (1956)
• The Civil War by Harry Hansen (1962)
• The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (1985)
• The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 Jul by Edward G. Longacre (1986)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Decision-Making)
• The Art of War: New Translation by Sun-tzu (Strategy)

Francis Parkman Prize

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (1978)
• The Contested Plains Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West (1999)

The Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books

• The Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Ser.) by Emil V. (translator) Homer; Rieu

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1972)

Guardian 1000

• Catch-22 (A Dell book) by Joseph Heller (Comedy)
• The Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes (Comedy)
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Crime)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Crime)
• The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Love)
• The Red Badge of Courage (The Modern Library, 130.3) by Stephen Crane (War and travel)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (War and travel)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (War and travel)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library) by Stendhal (War and travel)

H. L. Mencken Award

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro (1983)

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

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (16)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (1. Ausgabe)
• Catch-22 (A Dell book) by Joseph Heller (1. Ausgabe)

Hawthornden Prize

• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor (1999)

Heartland Prize

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1997)

Henry Adams Prize

• An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson (2003)

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