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

• The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation by Plato (380 BCE)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Nicholas Nickleby (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks (2006 Edition)
• A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
• Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by E. M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• W, or the Memory of Childhood (Verba Mundi) by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (2006/2008 Edition)
• Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (2006/2008 Edition)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• one hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke (2008 edition)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)
• The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Carlos Fuentes (2008 edition)

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

• Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Tar Beach (Caldecott Honor Book) by Faith Ringgold (2009, Ages 5↑)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Block by Langston Hughes (1996)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X (Biography, 1999)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) by Gene Roberts (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Road by McCarthy Cormac (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)
• Snow in August by Pete Hamill ( Tales of the Cities, 2002)
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1992)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work

• Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux (1994-95)

Alex Award

• Snow in August by Pete Hamill (1998)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)

Amazon.com Best Books

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Biography/Autobiography, 1989)
• W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race (Owl Books) by David Levering Lewis (Biography/Autobiography, 1994)

American Book Award

• Echoes Inside the Labyrinth by Thomas McGrath (1984)
• The heat bird by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (1984)
• My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe (1986)
• In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry) by Joy Harjo (1991)
• Blowback by Chalmers Johnson (2001)

American Cinema Editors Awards

• The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje (special recognition, 2003)

Atlanta-Journal Constitution 10 Great Reads

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

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

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1986)

Bakeless Prize

• The Clerk's Tale: Poems by Spencer Reece (Poetry, 2003)

Bancroft Prize

• The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) by Gordon S. Wood (1970)
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese (1975)
• W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race (Owl Books) by David Levering Lewis (1994)
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight (2002)

Barnes & Noble Best Books in History, Biography, and Sports

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)

Barnes & Noble Discover Award Finalist

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

BBC's Big Read

• one hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• Nicholas Nickleby (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 106)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 115)
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Best loved novel, 2003, No 143)

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

• The Odyssey by Homer by Homer

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

• Inner Room by James Merrill (1990)
• Felt: Poems by Alice Fulton (2002)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2002)

Borders Original Voices

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2001)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics) by Barbara Stoler Miller
• THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by Thorstein Veblen

British Book Award

• India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul (Travel Writer of the Year, 1991)

Brittingham Prize in Poetry

• And Her Soul Out of Nothing (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Olena Kalytiak Davis (1997)

C. Wright Mills Award

• Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven (1971)

Caldecott Honor

• Tar Beach (Caldecott Honor Book) by Faith Ringgold (1992)

Carl Sandburg Award

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

Charleston Gazette best Books

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)

Christian Science Monitor Recommended Books

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Christianity Today Book Awards

• The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris (No. 7, 1997, tie)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• What Work Is by Philip Levine (Poetry, Silver, 1991)
• Where I Was From by Joan Didion (Special Acknowledgement, Silver, 2003)

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

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
• Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
• Blues People by LeRoi Jones
• To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History. by Edmund, Wilson
• Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
• The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois
• Fowlers Modern English Usage 2ND Edition by H W Fowler
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Crossword Prize

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (non-fiction, 2005)

Crossword Prize shortlist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)

CWA

• Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (Silver Dagger, 1994)

Cyril Connolly's 100 key books of the modern movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

• Intimate Journals (Syren) by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
• The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad

Dilys Award

• Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1994)

Ditmar Award

• Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (International Fiction, 1970)

Duff Cooper Prize

• North: Poems by Seamus Heaney (1975)

The Econonmist Best Books

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)

Edgar Award

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Fact Crime, 1966)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (Novel, 1994)

Eric Mathieu King Fund recipient

• Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 2: From Postwar to Millennium by Jerome Rothenberg (1997)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (009)
• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (053)

Fletcher Pratt Award

• Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History) by Charles B. Dew (2001)

Fomentor Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age by Sebastiao Salgado (Globalization)
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin (Globalization)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Leadership)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (Power)
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner (Project Management)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)

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