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

• The Iliad of Homer by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran (7th–5th century BCE)
• Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell (3rd century BCE)
• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran (252 BCE)
• The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Rethinking the Western Tradition) by Rene Descartes (1637)
• Hobbes: Leviathan (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume (1740)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (1759)
• Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
• The Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel (1807)
• The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx (1848)
• On Liberty (Norton Critical Edition) by John Stuart Mill (1859)
• Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• Being and Nothingness (1943)
• Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungen by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Metamorphoses by Ovid (2006 Edition)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• The Castle by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (2006/2008 Edition)
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (2006/2008 Edition)
• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Devils: The Possessed (Oxford World's Classics) by Fedor M. Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Rebel, An Essay on Man in Revolt (A Vintage Book, K-30) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kim (Bantam Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (2006/2008 Edition)
• Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2006/2008 Edition)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library) by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Home and the World (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Rabindranath Tagore (2008 Edition)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2008 edition)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2)

1952 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (22)

1956 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (15)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (3)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (54)
• Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding (68)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (3)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (52)
• Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding (70)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1970)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• No Exit and Three Other Plays (Vintage International) by Jean-Paul Sartre (Drama, 1999)
• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Biography, 1999)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X (Biography, 1999)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Biography, 1999)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Lock it, Lick it, Click it: Diaries, Letters and Email, 2003)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Own Your Freak, 2005)

American Library Association Notable Book

• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2007)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

BBC's Big Read

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Best loved novel, 2003, No 15)
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (Best loved novel, 2003, No 55)
• Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 87)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)
• Kim (Bantam Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 159)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (Best loved novel, 2003, No 196)

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

• The Iliad of Homer by Homer

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2007)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2006)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Shalimar the Clown: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2005)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (1996)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Devils: The Possessed (Oxford World's Classics) by Fedor M. Dostoevsky
• The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
• The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil
• Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics) by Soren Kierkegaard

Brothers Judd Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe

Canada Reads Nominee

• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (2002)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (Best Book, 1994)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (Best Book, 1996)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlist

• Shalimar the Clown: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (Eurasia Region, Best Book, 2006)

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

• Fateful Triangle, Updated Edition: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (South End Press Classics Series) by Noam Chomsky
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
• The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone
• Orientalism (Vintage) by Edward W. Said

Crossword Prize

• Shalimar the Clown: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (English-language fiction, 2005)
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (non-fiction, 2005)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Popular Award, 2006)

Crossword Prize shortlist

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)
• Shalimar the Clown: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2005)

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

• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence by G. A. Cohen (1979)

English-Speaking Union Award

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)

Giller

• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (1995)

The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order

• Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret E. Keck (2000)

Guardian 1000

• The Castle by Franz Kafka (Comedy)
• Kim (Bantam Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (Crime)
• Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library) by Oscar Wilde (Family and self)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Family and self)
• Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz (Family and self)
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (Family and self)
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (Love)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Love)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (State of the nation)
• The Home and the World (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Rabindranath Tagore (State of the nation)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (State of the nation)
• The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (State of the nation)
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (State of the nation)
• Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (State of the nation)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (War and travel)
• Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (War and travel)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (War and travel)
• Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (War and travel)

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

• Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
• Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
• Gitanjali : A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
• Waiting for God by Simone Weil
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Shambhala Dragon Editions) by Chogyam Trungpa
• The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus

International IMPAC Dublin

• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (Shortlist, 1997)
• Shalimar the Clown: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (Shortlist, 2007)

Irish Times International Fiction Prize Shortlist

• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1994)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1981)

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka (1993)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1886)

Kiriyama Prize

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

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (Fiction, 2000)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Fiction, 2007)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (41)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (44)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (60)
• Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (83)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh by David Hume
• Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work

• The Castle by Franz Kafka (1998)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Fiction, 1984)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (Fiction, 1996)

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