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

• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Histories by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus (120 AD)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine of Hippo (400 AD)
• Divina Commedia (Italian Edition) by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Francis Bacon (1620)
• Hobbes: Leviathan (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• Foe: A Novel (King Penguin) by J. M. Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• The Professor's House (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch (English Library) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr (2008 Edition)
• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2008 edition)

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

• Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in citta. by Italo Calvino (2009, No 554, Age 8 and over)
• Italian Folk Tales by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 5↑)

Académie française

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (Grand prix du roman, 2006)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature

• Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte (1993-94)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

• Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture by Professor Leonard Barkan (1999)

BBC's Big Read

• Middlemarch (English Library) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)

Booker Prize

• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2003)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire boxed set (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
• The Histories by Herodotus

British Book Award

• The Art Book by Editors of Phaidon Press (Illustrated Book of the Year, 1995)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
• Divina Commedia (Italian Edition) by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
• Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Best Book, 2000)

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

• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton (1989)

Guardian 1000

• Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Comedy)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• The Professor's House (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (Family and self)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Love)
• Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (Love)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
• Middlemarch (English Library) by George Eliot (State of the nation)
• A Tale of Two Cities (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Poems (The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume 1) by W.B. Yeats

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (Elizabethan Club) by Thomas M. Greene (1982)
• Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web by Jerome McGann (2001)
• The Dominion of the Dead (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Robert Pogue Harrison ( Honorable Mention)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9)

Leo Gershoy Award

• The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age by Joseph M. Levine (1992)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Holy Bible, King James Version (Meridian) by Anonymous
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (Worlds Classics) by Thomas De Quincey

Locus Poll Award

• The Mists of Avalon-Trade by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Best Fantasy Novel, 1984)

Locus Poll Nominee

• The Mists of Avalon-Trade by Marion Zimmer Bradley (All-Time Best Fantasy Novel before 1990, 1998)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton (History, 1993)

LOST Book Club

• A Tale of Two Cities (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1969)

Miles Franklin Award Shortlist

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2004)

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

• The Education of Henry Adams (Penguin Classics) by Henry Adams (1)

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

• The Education of Henry Adams (Penguin Classics) by Henry Adams (51)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (The Board's List, 4)

Mythopoeic Nominee

• The Mists of Avalon-Trade by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Fantasy Award, 1983)

National Book Award finalist

• Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag (Arts and Letters, 1967)
• The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann (Fiction, 1952)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction, 1959)
• Purgatorio (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri (Translation, 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Fiction, 1999)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1970)
• Italian Folk Tales by Italo Calvino (1980)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)

New York Times bestseller

• The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann (Fiction, 1951)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction, 1958)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1970)
• The Mists of Avalon-Trade by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Fiction, 1983)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (Non-Fiction, 2007)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by J.A. Burrow (Simon Armitage translation) (Fiction & Poetry, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Divina Commedia (Italian Edition) by Dante Alighieri (2009)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2009, No. 4)
• Middlemarch (English Library) by George Eliot (2009, No. 13)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2009, No. 17)
• The Histories by Herodotus (2009, No. 28)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine of Hippo (2009, No. 32)
• Hobbes: Leviathan (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Thomas Hobbes (2009, No. 33)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (2009, No. 34)
• Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2009, No. 46)
• Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman (2009, No. 53)
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (2009, No. 86)
• The Education of Henry Adams (Penguin Classics) by Henry Adams (2009, No. 87)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
• Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
• Divina Commedia (Italian Edition) by Dante Alighieri
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne
• Middlemarch (English Library) by George Eliot
• Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman (2006)
• How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (2007)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2003)
• Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2003)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2003)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2003)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Novel, 1969)

Prix Goncourt

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2006)

Pulitzer Prize

• The Education of Henry Adams (Penguin Classics) by Henry Adams (Biography or Autobiography, 1919)

Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2004)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (11)

Rómulo Gallegos

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1972)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2003)

Second Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 4) by Euripides (438 BCE)

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