Awards in your library

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

• Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Benedict de Spinoza (1677)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Effi Briest (German Edition) by Fontane (2006/2008 Edition)
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Piano Teacher: A Novel by Elfriede Jelinek (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006/2008 Edition)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• PNIN. by Vladimir. Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Play It As It Lays, Second Edition: A Novel by Joan Didion (2008 Edition)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1991)

ALA Notable Books

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (History, 2004)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Witch Baby (Weetzie Bat) by Francesca Lia Block ( Different Drummers, 1999)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug Wright (2005)

American Book Award

• Dogeaters (Contemporary American Fiction) by Jessica Hagedorn (1991)
• Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution by Brenda Knight (1997)
• Scapegoat : The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation by Andrea Dworkin (2001)

American Library Association - Notable Books for Adults - Fiction

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch (1958)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

BBC's Big Read

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)

Booker Prize

• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)
• The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch (1978)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Oryx and Crake (2003)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (1984)

Canada Reads Nominee

• Oryx and Crake (2005)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (Nonfiction, Silver, 1991)

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

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt

Drama Desk Award

• I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug Wright (New Play, 2003-2004)

Encore Award

• So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy (1996)

Franz Kafka Prize

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Giller Prize Shortlist

• Oryx and Crake (2003)

Governor General's Literary Award Finalist

• Oryx and Crake (Fiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

• PNIN. by Vladimir. Nabokov (Comedy)
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (Comedy)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Family and self)
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (Love)
• The Mill on the Floss (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by George Eliot (Love)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) by Carson Mccullers (Love)
• The Piano Teacher: A Novel by Elfriede Jelinek (Love)
• Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (Love)
• My Antonia (Enriched Classics (Pocket)) by Willa Cather (Love)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Love)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Love)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (State of the nation)
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (State of the nation)
• Effi Briest (German Edition) by Fontane (State of the nation)
• The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (State of the nation)
• Play It As It Lays, Second Edition: A Novel by Joan Didion (State of the nation)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)

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

• The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Effi Briest (German Edition) by Fontane

Irish Times International Fiction Prize Shortlist

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (Fiction, 1984)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Shortlist

• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (Retrospective)

Lambda Literary Award

• I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug Wright (Drama, 2004)

Lamont Poetry Prize

• The City in Which I Love You (American Poets Continuum) by Li-Young Lee (1990)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (3)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (21)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

McVitie's Prize Shortlist

• So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy (1995)

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

• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (20)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (The Board's List, 3)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (The Board's List, 4)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) by Carson Mccullers (The Board's List, 17)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (The Board's List, 35)
• Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham (The Board's List, 66)
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (The Board's List, 95)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (The Reader's List, 21)
• My Antonia (Enriched Classics (Pocket)) by Willa Cather (The Reader's List, 94)

National Book Award

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1974)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (History (Paperback), 1980)
• Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams (Poetry, 1950)
• Flowers of Evil (New Directions Paperbook) by Charles Baudelaire (Translation, 1983)

National Book Award finalist

• PNIN. by Vladimir. Nabokov (Fiction, 1958)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction, 1959)
• Transparent Things by Nabokov Vladimir (Fiction, 1973)
• Dogeaters (Contemporary American Fiction) by Jessica Hagedorn (Fiction, 1990)
• Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.) by Francine Prose (Fiction, 2000)
• Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art (P.S.) by Rene Steinke (Fiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• SUSAN SONTAG ON PHOTOGRAPHY by SUSAN SONTAG (Criticism, 1977)
• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (General Nonfiction, 1991)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (General Nonfiction, 1978)

NEA Big Read

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) by Carson Mccullers (2009)
• My Antonia (Enriched Classics (Pocket)) by Willa Cather (2009)

Nebula Nominee

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Novel, 1973)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1976)
• SUSAN SONTAG ON PHOTOGRAPHY by SUSAN SONTAG (1977)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2005)

New York Times bestseller

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction, 1958)
• Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers (Fiction, 1961)
• Play It As It Lays, Second Edition: A Novel by Joan Didion (Fiction, 1970)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1973)
• A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott (Fiction, 1995)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (General, 1978)
• Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein (General, 1982)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.) by Francine Prose
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Fiction & Poetry, 2007)
• The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2009, No. 4)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (2009, No. 67)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) by Carson Mccullers (2009, No. 70)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2003)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (2003)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2003)

One Book One Nebraska

• My Antonia (Enriched Classics (Pocket)) by Willa Cather (2005)

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