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100 Essential New England Books

Moby Dick (English Library) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Boston Globe, #4)

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

The Iliad of Homer by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
The Aeneid (Classics) by Virgil (19 BCE)
On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics) by Lucretius (55 BCE)
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Classics) by Cornelius Tacitus (120 AD)
The Enneads (Classics) by Plotinus (3rd century)
The Divine Comedy (Pan Classics) by Alighieri Dante (1321)
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes (1615)
Pensees (Penguin Classics) by Blaise Pascal (1670)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1684)
Candide by Voltaire (1759)
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
Either/Or: Volume I by S. Kierkegaard (1843)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Classics S.) by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World's Classics) by Sigmund Freud (1900)
The Trial (Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka (1925)
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SARTRE (1943)
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
On the Eve (Classics) by Ivan Turgenev (2006 Edition)
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (2006 Edition)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
Virgin Soil (Everyman Paperbacks) by Ivan Turgenev (2006 Edition)
Our Ancestors: "Cloven Viscount", "Baron in the Trees" and "Non-existent Knight" (Picador Books) by Italo Calvino (2006 Edition)
The Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Ovid (2006 Edition)
Auto Da Fe (Picador Books) by Elias Canetti (2006 Edition)
Mercier and Camier (Picador Books) by Samuel Beckett (2006 Edition)
Villette (English Library) by Charlotte Brontë (2006 Edition)
Watt by Samuel Beckett (2006 Edition)
Between the Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (2006 Edition)
Jacob's Room by Woolf Virginia (2006 Edition)
The Collector by John Fowles (2006 edition)
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (2006 Edition)
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (2006 Edition)
The Breast by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) by Aesop (2006 Edition)
Agnes Grey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Anne Bronte (2006 Edition)
Golden Bowl (Modern Classics S) by Henry James (2006 Edition)
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard (2006 Edition)
How It Is (Calderbooks) by Samuel Beckett (2006 Edition)
Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett (2006 Edition)
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow (2006 Edition)
Lord Jim (Modern Classics S) by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (2006 Edition)
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (2006 Edition)
The Victim by Saul Bellow (2006 edition)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (2006 Edition)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
The Voyage Out by Woolf Virginia (2006 edition)
The Joke (King Penguin) by Milan Kundera (2006 Edition)
Rites of Passage by William Golding (2006 Edition)
The Revenge for Love (Modern Classics) by Wyndham Lewis (2006 Edition)
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht (2006 Edition)
Moby Dick (English Library) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
America by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
Eugenie Grandet (Classics) by Honore de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
The Immoralist (Modern Classics) by Andre Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Popular Classics) by Anne Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
Jealousy (Jupiter Books) by Alain Robbe-Grillet (2006/2008 Edition)
Strait Is the Gate (Modern Classics) by Andre Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (2006/2008 Edition)
The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
Waterland (Picador Books) by Graham Swift (2006/2008 Edition)
What Maisie Knew (Modern Classics S) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
The Ambassadors (Modern Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Modern Classics) by Victor Serge (2006/2008 Edition)
Parable of the Blind by Gert Hofmann (2006/2008 Edition)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
Amongst Women by John McGahern (2006/2008 Edition)
U.S.A. (Modern Classics) by John Dos Passos (2006/2008 Edition)
Correction by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
RABBIT, RUN by JOHN UPDIKE (2006/2008 Edition)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008 Edition)
The Magic Mountain (Twentieth Century Classics) by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
The Devils: (The Possessed) (Classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
The Counterfeiters (Modern Classics) by Andre Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
Pride and Prejudice (English Library) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
Voss (Modern Classics) by Patrick White (2006/2008 Edition)
The Drowned and the Saved (Abacus Books) by Primo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
Old Goriot (Classics) by Honore de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (2006/2008 Edition)
Against Nature (Penguin Classics) by J-.K. Huysmans (2006/2008 Edition)
The Waves (Twentieth Century Classics) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
Hunger (Picador Books) by Knut Hamsun (2006/2008 Edition)
The first circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
Nostromo: A tale of the seaboard (Penguin modern classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
L Assommoir, L' (Classics) by Emile Zola (2006/2008 Edition)
The vicar of Wakefield,: A tale supposed to be written by himself; (Macmillan's pocket English classics) by Oliver Goldsmith (2006/2008 Edition)
Effi Briest (Classics) by Theodor Fontane (2006/2008 Edition)
The Tartar Steppe (Carcanet Collection) by Dino Buzzati (2006/2008 Edition)
Bouvard and Pecuchet (Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
Beast in Man (Signet Modern Classics) by Emile Zola (2006/2008 Edition)
The Betrothed (Classics) by Alessandro Manzoni (2006/2008 Edition)
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library Classics) by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Classics 60s) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
Fathers & Sons by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
On the Road (Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008 Edition)
The Wings of the Dove (Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
Anna Karenin by L.N. Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
Heart of Darkness (Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
Young Torless by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
Waiting for the Barbarians (King Penguin) by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
Orlando: A biography by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (2006/2008 Edition)
Jude the Obscure (English Library) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Popular Classics) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
Silas Marner Penguin English Library by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (2006/2008 Edition)
Nana (Classics) by Emile Zola (2006/2008 Edition)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2006/2008 Edition)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by VIRGINIA WOOLF (2006/2008 Edition)
Emma (English library) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006/2008 Edition)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
The Trial (Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
Adam Bede (English Library) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
RABBIT REDUX by JOHN UPDIKE (2006/2008 Edition)
Murphy (Calder Modern Classics) by Samuel Beckett (2006/2008 Edition)
Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (2006/2008 Edition)
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
Pnin (Twentieth Century Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (King Penguin) by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Picador Books) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
Ulysses (Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
We (Modern Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006/2008 Edition)
Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (2006/2008 Edition)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
MIDDLEMARCH. by George. Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
Elective Affinities (Classics) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by HENRY JAMES (2006/2008 Edition)
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Picador Books) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
The Castle (Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Nausea (Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
Herzog by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
The Idiot by F.M. Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Eyeless in Gaza (Modern Classics S) by Aldous Huxley (2006/2008 Edition)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (2006/2008 Edition)
The Radetzky March (Modern Classics) by Joseph Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (2006/2008 Edition)
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
Third Policeman (Picador Books) by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
The Secret Agent. A simple tale (Penguin Modern Classics. no. 2059.) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
Tristram Shandy (Wordsworth Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
The Mill on the Floss (The Penguin English Library) by George (Byatt Eliot, A.S. (ed.)) (2006/2008 Edition)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
Portnoy's complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
Pale Fire (Twentieth Century Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2006/2008 Edition)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
Dead Souls (Classics) by N.V. Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
Joseph and His Brothers (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Thomas Mann (2008 Edition)
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima (2008 Edition)
The mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir (2008 Edition)
To Each His Own (Black & White) by Leonardo Sciascia (2008 Edition)
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008 Edition)
Eugene Onegin (Classics) by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (2008 Edition)
The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa (2008 edition)
Black Box (Flamingo) by Amos Oz (2008 Edition)
The Royal Game (Modern Classics) by Stefan Zweig (2008 Edition)
On the Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran (2008 Edition)
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics) by E.T.A. Hoffmann (2008 Edition)
The Death of Virgil (Twentieth Century Classics) by Hermann Broch (2008 edition)
The Tree of Man (Modern Classics) by Patrick White (2008 Edition)
A Hero of Our Time (Classics) by M.IU Lermontov (2008 Edition)
The Guiltless by Hermann Broch (2008 Edition)

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

Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) by Aesop (2009, No 382, Age 8 and over)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (2)

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

Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (22)

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

Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (15)

AAR Top 100 Romances

Pride and Prejudice (English Library) by Jane Austen (1998, 12)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2004, 87)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (2007, 54)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (creative writing)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (6)
Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (54)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (68)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (6)
Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (52)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (70)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1971)
Birdy by William Wharton (1979)
A Midnight Clear (King Penguin) by William Wharton (1982)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
King Lear (Arden Shakespeare: Third) by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
Mythology by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)
Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (Fiction, 1999)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Fiction, 1999)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

Pride and Prejudice (English Library) by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
On the Road (Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Journey > Destination, 2009)

ALS Gold Medal

The Tree of Man (Modern Classics) by Patrick White (1955)
The Burnt Ones by Patrick White (1965)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 19291940: v. 1 (The Letters of Samuel Beckett) by Samuel Beckett (#72)

Ambassador Book Award

Roger's Version by John Updike (Fiction, 1987)
Elephant and Other Stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike (Fiction, 1997)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1998)
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth (Fiction, 1999)

American Book Award

Underworld by Don DeLillo (1998)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1940)
The Victim by Saul Bellow (1947)
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948)
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud (1957)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes (1961)
Riders in the Chariot (Modern Classics) by Patrick White (1961)
Pale Fire (Twentieth Century Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
The Spire by William Golding (1964)
Portnoy's complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1969)
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1975)
Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud (1979)

Aristeion

The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom (Literary, 1993)

Bancarella

Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968)
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)

BBC's Big Read

Pride and Prejudice (English Library) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Best loved novel, 2003, No 11)
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
MIDDLEMARCH. by George. Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Picador Books) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 38)
Emma (English library) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 40)
The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Best loved novel, 2003, No 52)
Anna Karenin by L.N. Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 72)
Ulysses (Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
Brave New World by ALDOUS HUXLEY (Best loved novel, 2003, No 87)
On the Road (Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Best loved novel, 2003, No 90)
Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)
Jude the Obscure (English Library) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 111)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Best loved novel, 2003, No 141)
Heart of Darkness (Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
Moby Dick (English Library) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
Silas Marner Penguin English Library by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 184)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Benjamin Franklin Award

On the Road (Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Audiobook - Adult Fiction, 2001)

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

The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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

The Odyssey by Homer

Betty Trask Award

Under the Frog (Fiction Series) by Tibor Fischer (1992)

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson (2000)

Book Sense Book of the Year

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
Rites of Passage by William Golding (1980)
Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie (1981)
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (1983)

Booker Prize Longlist

All for Love by Dan Jacobson (2005)
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson (2006)
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (2008)

Booker Prize Shortlist

Waterland (Picador Books) by Graham Swift (1983)
Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes (1984)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)
Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)
Under the Frog (Fiction Series) by Tibor Fischer (1993)

Borges' A Personal Library

British Academy Book Prize

Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane History) by Ian Kershaw (2001)

C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit

Mass and Elite Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People by Josiah Ober (1989)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes (Literary Classics)
The Divine Comedy (Pan Classics) by Alighieri Dante (Literary Classics)
Dark Night of the Soul by Of the Cross John, Saint (Spiritual Classics)
The Betrothed (Classics) by Alessandro Manzoni (Spiritual Reading)
The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Classics) by Thomas A Kempis (Spiritual Reading)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom (Fiction, Gold, 1992)

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

Crossword Prize

Two Lives by Vikram Seth (non-fiction, 2006)

Cundill International Prize in History Longlist

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (2008)

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

Deutscher Memorial Prize

Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G.E.M.De Ste.Croix (1982)

Duff Cooper Prize

Marcel Proust: A Biography (Peregrine books) by George D Painter (1965)
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox (1973)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk (1991)

Edgar Award Nominee

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Edward Lewis Wallant Award

Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick (1971)

English-Speaking Union Award

Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Femina

Black Box (Flamingo) by Amos Oz (Étranger, 1988)

Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize

Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1997-2001)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus (Tragedy, 458 BCE)

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