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100 Essential New England Books

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Boston Globe, #7)

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

• The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Iliad by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation By Rolfe Humphries (Scribner/Macmillan Bk) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint (400 AD)
• Montaigne: Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire (1759)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungen by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Collector by John Fowles (2006 edition)
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (2006 Edition)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
• Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• Jacob's Room (Dover Thrift Editions) by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
• Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006 Edition)
• The Woodlanders (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Postmn Rngs Twice V545 by James M. Cain (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• Women in Love: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by D.H. Lawrence (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• The History of Tom Jones by Fielding Henry (2006/2008 Edition)
• Sun Also Rises by Ernest Heminway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (2006/2008 Edition)
• JUDE THE OBSCURE "The Letter Killeth" by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• The End of the Affair (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Ted Hughes (2009, No 626, Age 8 and over)
• Jorge el curioso by H. A. Rey (2009, Ages 3↑)
• The cat in the hat by Dr Seuss (2009, Ages 3↑)
• Green Eggs and Ham (Beginner Books(R)) by Dr. Seuss (2009, Ages 3↑)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Cold Mountain (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition by Leslea Newman (9)
• A Light in the Attic (51)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition by Leslea Newman (11)
• A Light in the Attic (51)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The strawberry statement; notes of a college revolutionary by James S. Kunen (1969)
• The Amateur Naturalist by Gerald Durrell (1984)

ALA Notable Book for Adult Fiction

• Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Judy Fong Bates (2006)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo by Julius Lester (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Ted Hughes (Poetry, 1999)
• King Lear (Bantam Classics) by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed by Art Spiegelman (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• Cold Mountain (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Anne of Green Gables (The World's best reading) by L. M Montgomery ( Feel Good Books, 1998)
• Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)
• A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca ( Hard Knock Life, 2010)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Falling Up (1997)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• Falling Up (1997)

Alex Award

• Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Judy Fong Bates (2006)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Story of English by Robert McCrum (Special Citation, 1987)
• Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
• Tesserae and Other Poems by John Hollander (Poetry, 1994)
• Collected Poems: Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; Introduction by Frank Bidart by Robert Lowell (Poetry, 2004)
• Collected Poems by Donald Justice (Poetry, 2005)

American Book Award

• Martin & Meditations on the South Valley by Jimmy Santiago Baca (1988)
• Legends from Camp by Lawson Fusao Inada (1994)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz (2006)

American Library Association Notable Book, 1981

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

Andersen - Il Mondo dell'Infanzia

• Jorge el curioso by H. A. Rey (Miglior Libro 6/9 anni, 2001)

Anthony Award

• Mystic River: A Novel by Dennis Lehane (Best Novel, 2002)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway (1940)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Barry Award

• Mystic River: A Novel by Dennis Lehane (Novel, 2002)

BBC's Big Read

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 26)
• Middlemarch (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• Anne of Green Gables (The World's best reading) by L. M Montgomery (Best loved novel, 2003, No 41)
• Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
• JUDE THE OBSCURE "The Letter Killeth" by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 111)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 154)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Best loved novel, 2003, No 157)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book (1992)
• The Beasts of Bethlehem by X. J. Kennedy (1992)
• Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo by Julius Lester (1996)

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

• The Iliad by Homer

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

• The Odyssey by Homer

BILBY

• The cat in the hat by Dr Seuss (younger readers, 2004)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)) by Walter Mosley
• Mystic River: A Novel by Dennis Lehane

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

• The Continuous Life,: Poems by Mark Strand (1992)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

Booker Prize

• The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme (1985)
• Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1998)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (1992)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2001)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Greek Myths: Illustrated Edition by Robert Graves
• The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation By Rolfe Humphries (Scribner/Macmillan Bk) by Virgil

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Brage Prize

• The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago (Open class, 1998)

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Literary Classics)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint (Spiritual Classics)

Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen (Fiction, Silver, 1991)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

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

• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (The Oxford Library of English Usage ; V. 2) by H. W. Fowler

CWA

• DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)) by Walter Mosley (New Blood Dagger, 1991)

Dilys Award

• Mystic River: A Novel by Dennis Lehane (2002)

Duff Cooper Prize

• John Betjeman: Collected Poems by John Betjeman, Sir (1958)

Edgar Award

• Cain : The Biography of James M. Cain by Roy Hoopes (Critical / Biographical, 1983)

Edgar Award Nominee

• DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)) by Walter Mosley (First Novel, 1991)
• White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley (Novel, 1993)

Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Evergreen Award, Fiction

• Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Judy Fong Bates (2005, Nominated)

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