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

• The Illiad by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War : Revised Edition by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
• The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus (120 AD)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• Candide: or Optimism by Voltaire (1759)
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)
• On War (Penguin Classics) by Carl Von Clausewitz (1832)
• On Liberty (Penguin Classics) by John Stuart Mill (1859)
• First Principles by Herbert Spencer (1862)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• 1984 by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Satanic Verses : A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie
• Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe
• Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• Novel with Cocaine (Modern Voices) by M. Ageyev (2006 Edition)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2006 Edition)
• Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis (2006 Edition)
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville (2006 edition)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita (Vintage International) by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy (BBC) by Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Castle : A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Miserables, Les (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jack Maggs : A Novel by Peter Carey (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Good Soldier Svejk : and His Fortunes in the World War (2006/2008 Edition)
• The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Life of Insects : A Novel by Victor Pelevin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008 Edition)
• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008 Edition)
• Outsider by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2006/2008 Edition)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (2006/2008 Edition)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• 1984 by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (2008 Edition)
• Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev (2008 Edition)

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

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (2009, No 503, Age 8 and over)
• Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe (2009, No 732, Age 12 and over)

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

• 1984 by George Orwell (17)

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

• 1984 by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• 1984 by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• 1984 by George Orwell (34)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (1998, 12)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• The Book of Evidence by John Banville (1989)

The Age Book of the Year Award

• Jack Maggs : A Novel by Peter Carey (Fiction, 1997)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (53)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (60)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• King Lear by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ( Humor, 2001)
• How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion by Daniel H. Wilson (What’s so Funny?, 2007)
• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Journey > Destination, 2009)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion by Daniel H. Wilson (2006)

American Library Association Notable Book

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (1993)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
• 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson (2004)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2000)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Kennedy's Wars : Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam by Lawrence Freedman (Silver medal, 2002)
• Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Bancarella

• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)

Bancroft Prize

• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)

BBC's Big Read

• Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Best loved novel, 2003, No 04)
• 1984 by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 09)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (Best loved novel, 2003, No 11)
• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere (Best loved novel, 2003, No 44)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 46)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 85)
• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Best loved novel, 2003, No 90)
• Miserables, Les (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 114)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 115)
• The Master and Margarita (Vintage International) by Mikhail Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
• Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 185)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Audiobook - Adult Fiction, 2001)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2005)

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

• The Illiad by Homer

Best Selling Novel of the 19th Century

• Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1800-1900)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

Booker Prize

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The Satanic Verses : A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie (1988)
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville (1989)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Epic of Gilgamesh : An English Verison with an Introduction by Anonymous
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe

Carnegie Medal

• The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (1956)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)

CBA Libris Award

• Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2003)

CBC Graphic Novels for Young Readers

• The Broken Ear (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Prisoners of the Sun (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Tintin and the Picaros (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Land of Black Gold (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Tintin - The Calculus Affair
• Tintin in Tibet (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Destination Moon (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Blue Lotus (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Shooting Star (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Seven Crystal Balls (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• King Ottokar's Sceptre (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Flight 714 (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Explorers on the Moon (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Red Rackham's Treasure (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Castafiore Emerald (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Secret of the Unicorn (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Red Sea Sharks (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• The Crab with the Golden Claws (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
• Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh by Herge

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Jack Maggs : A Novel by Peter Carey (Best Book, 1998)

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

• Making of the English Working Class by E P Thompson

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

• Outsider by Albert Camus
• The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Islam and Capitalism (Saqi Essentials) by Maxime Rodinson (1974)

Ditmar Award

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (International Fiction, 1980)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2001)
• Gulag : A History by Anne Applebaum (2003)

Eisner Award

• I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks by Fletcher Hanks (Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books, 2008)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Jose Schumpeter (Economics)
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (honorable mention, 2005)

George Washington Book Prize

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2005)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (Non-fiction, 2003)

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