Awards in your library

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Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CARVER (Fiction, 1989)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

BBC's Big Read

Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 26)
Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)

Book Sense Book of the Year

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman ( Rediscovery Honor Book, 2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2000)

Duff Cooper Prize

James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann (1982)

Edgar Award

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Critical / Biographical Work, 2005)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2001)

Guardian 1000

Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime)
Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Love)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (State of the nation)
Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (State of the nation)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (War and travel)

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

The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann (Biography, 1982)
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by E. Janet Browne (Biography, 2003)

John Burroughs Medal

The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson (1952)
Song of the Dodo by David Quammen (1997)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1886)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (3)
Dubliners (Signet Classics) by James Joyce (63)
Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics) by Sherwood Anderson (87)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Science and Technology, 1994)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

The Lives of a Cell - Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (11)
James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann (73)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics) by Sherwood Anderson (The Board's List, 24)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (The Reader's List, 21)
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (The Reader's List, 78)

National Book Award

The Lives of a Cell - Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (Arts and Letters, 1975)
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Fiction (Paperback), 1981)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1974)
The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson (Nonfiction, 1952)
James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann (Nonfiction, 1960)
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Fiction, 1979)
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson (Science (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by E. Janet Browne (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Fiction, 1978)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov (Criticism, 1980)
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CARVER (Fiction, 1988)
Galatea 2.2: A Novel by Richard Powers (Fiction, 1995)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2000)

NEA Big Read

The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2009)

Nebula Nominee

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (Novel, 1973)

New York City Book Award

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2000)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1978)
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson (1979)
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CARVER (1988)
Song of the Dodo by David Quammen (1996)

New York Times bestseller

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1973)
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Fiction, 1978)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2001)
Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing by H.L. Mencken (General, 1949)
The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson (General, 1951)
The Lives of a Cell - Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (General, 1974)
Essays of E B White 1ST Edition by E B White (General, 1977)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CARVER (Multiple Votes)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin by Charles Darwin (2009, No. 27)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

Song of the Dodo by David Quammen (1997)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2007, No 02)

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)

Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels

Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville

Pulitzer Prize

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Fiction, 1979)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2001)
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (General Non-Fiction, 1995)
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (General Non-Fiction, 1999)
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Novel, 1926)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CARVER (Fiction, 1989)

Pulitzer Prize finalist (Poetry, 1994) Allen Mandelbaum translation

The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid

Seattle Getaways: 12 Essential Northwest Books

Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CARVER (1997)

SWR-Bestenliste

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (1982)
Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1994)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction (2), 2000)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon

Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (21)

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (24)

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