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100 Essential New England Books

• Little Women (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Louisa M. Alcott (Boston Globe)
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• The Odyssey (E.V. Rieu translation) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Iliad (Lang, Leaf, Myers translation) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Peloponnesian War (Rex Warner translation) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• (Set: Ancient Greek Histories 1) The Histories by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic (Jowett translation) by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Aeneid (Patric Dickinson translation) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• The annals by Cornelius Tacitus (120 AD)
• The Confessions by St. Augustine (400 AD)
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais (1534)
• Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (1615)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1684)
• Candide or The Optimist by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1759)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Aesop's Fables by Aesop (2006 Edition)
• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• The brothers Karamazov, a novel in four parts & epilog by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
• By the lake: a novel by John McGahern (2006 Edition)
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• The War of the Worlds by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rabbit is Rich by John Updike (2006/2008 Edition)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• The tour of the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Three Musketeers (Children's Thrift Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Little Women (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Louisa M. Alcott (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• U.S.A by John Dos Passos (2006/2008 Edition)
• A passage to India by E. M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• The man with the golden arm by Nelson Algren (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, b copy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Time Machine by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bleak House (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2008 edition)
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (2008 Edition)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (2008 edition)
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (2008 edition)

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

• Aesop's Fables by Aesop (2009, No 382, Age 8 and over)
• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (2009, No 685, Age 8 and over)
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket (2009, No 696, Age 8 and over)
• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (2009, No 697, Age 8 and over)
• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J. K. Rowling (2009, No 701, Age 8 and over)
• The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7) by Lemony Snicket (2009, No 708, Age 8 and over)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (2009, No 732, Age 12 and over)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2)
• Adventures in time and space, an anthology of modern science-fiction stories by Raymond J. Healy (4)
• Sirius by Olaf Stapledon (11)

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

• Adventures in time and space, an anthology of modern science-fiction stories by Raymond J. Healy (1)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (22)
• The Humanoids by Jack Williamson (27)

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

• Adventures in time and space, an anthology of modern science-fiction stories by Raymond J. Healy (1)
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (7)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (15)
• Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (18)
• The Humanoids by Jack Williamson (18)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (11)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (13)
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (14)
• Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (16)
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer (17)
• The Time Machine by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (20)
• The War of the Worlds by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (24)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (11)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Gateway by Frederik Pohl (8)
• The Time Machine by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (15)
• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (16)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (17)
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (18)
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer (27)
• Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (36)
• Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh (41)
• The War of the Worlds by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (42)
• Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein (44)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1998, 12)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2004, 87)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (Children's, 1999)

ABA Silver Gavel Certificate of Merit

• The courage of their convictions: sixteen Americans who fought their way to the Supreme Court by Peter H. Irons (1989)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain (5)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (6)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (54)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel Clemens (83)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain (5)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (6)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (52)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel Clemens (84)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Incredible victory by Walter Lord (1967)
• Time and Again by Jack Finney (1970)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson (1977)
• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (1999)
• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (2000)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (2000)
• Black potatoes: the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (2003)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2004)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (2006)
• Terrier (Beka Cooper) by Tamora Pierce (2007)
• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J. K. Rowling (2008)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• Moorchild (Aladdin Fantasy) by E. McGraw (1997)
• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (1999)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey (E.V. Rieu translation) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls by Mary Bray Pipher (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Fiction, 1999)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Higher Education (Jupiter) by Charles Sheffield ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)
• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J. K. Rowling ( Fame and Fortune, 2009)
• Wyrd sisters: starring three witches, also kings, daggers, crowns ... by Terry Pratchett ( Twists on the Tale, 2010)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Picture This! Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• Picture This! Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997)

Alan Paton Award

• The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Backwoods utopias; the sectarian and Owenite phases of communitarian socialism in America, 1663-1829 by Arthur Eugene Bestor (1946)
• The new empire; an interpretation of American expansion, 1860-1898 by Walter LaFeber (1962)

Allan Nevins Prize

• Rehearsal for Reconstruction; the Port Royal experiment by Willie Lee Nichols Rose (1963)
• Prelude to Civil War; the nullification controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 by William W. Freehling (1965)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (#90)

Ambassador Book Award

• Freedom from fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (American Studies, 2000)

American Book Award

• The rascal king: the life and times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 by Jack Beatty (1993)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J. K. Rowling (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2004)

Andre Norton Award

• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J. K. Rowling (2007)

Anthony Award

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Young Adult, 2004)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
• Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1975)
• Farewell Companions by James Plunkett (1977)

Apollo Award

• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1973)
• Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1979)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Paris 1919: six months that changed the world by Margaret MacMillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Bancarella

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)
• The Bible as history by Werner Keller (1957)
• The longest day, June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan (1962)

Bancroft Prize

• (Ordeal of the Union Set Vol. 2) Ordeal of the Union: (Vol. 2) A House Dividing 1852-1857 by Allan Nevins (1948)
• Across the wide Missouri by Bernard Augustine De Voto (1948)
• (Ordeal of the Union Set Vol. 1) Ordeal of the Union: (Vol. 1) Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852 by Allan Nevins (1948)
• The era of good feelings by George Dangerfield (1953)
• The Americans, the colonial experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (1959)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William Edward Leuchtenburg (1964)
• The peacemakers : the great powers and American independence by Richard Brandon Morris (1966)
• Prelude to Civil War; the nullification controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 by William W. Freehling (1967)
• The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947 by John Lewis Gaddis (1973)
• Fire in the lake; the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald (1973)
• Edith Wharton by R. W. B. Lewis (1976)
• The transformation of American law, 1780-1860 by Morton J. Horwitz (1978)

BBC's Big Read

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J. K. Rowling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 05)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• Little Women (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Louisa M. Alcott (Best loved novel, 2003, No 18)
• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 22)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 23)
• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 24)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 26)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Best loved novel, 2003, No 29)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Best loved novel, 2003, No 30)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 36)
• A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 47)
• The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Best loved novel, 2003, No 51)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Best loved novel, 2003, No 52)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
• Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• Bleak House (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 87)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Best loved novel, 2003, No 122)
• Wyrd sisters: starring three witches, also kings, daggers, crowns ... by Terry Pratchett (Best loved novel, 2003, No 135)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Best loved novel, 2003, No 141)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)
• The War of the Worlds by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (Best loved novel, 2003, No 194)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Audiobook - Children, 2001)

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

• The Iliad (Lang, Leaf, Myers translation) by Homer

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

• The Odyssey (E.V. Rieu translation) by Homer

BILBY

• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (older readers, 2005)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (older readers, 2006)
• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J. K. Rowling (older readers, 2008)

Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award

• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (1997)

Bisto Book Eilis Dillon Memorial Award

• Melody for Nora by Mark O'Sullivan (Winner, 1995)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• Tales of mystery & imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
• When the sacred ginmill closes by Lawrence Block

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket ( Children's Literature Honor Book, 2001)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid (Patric Dickinson translation) by Virgil
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Folio Society set, Eight Volumes) by Edward Gibbon
• The Time Machine by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• (Set: Ancient Greek Histories 1) The Histories by Herodotus

Bram Stoker Award

• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Work for Young Readers, 1999)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Work for Young Readers, 2003)

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J. K. Rowling (Work For Younger Readers, 2000)

British Book Award

• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling (Children's Book of the Year, 1998)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (Children's Book of the Year, 1999)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (Book of the Year, 2006)

British Science Fiction Association Award

• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969)

Brothers Judd Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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