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100 Essential New England Books

Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
Plato: Republic by Plato (380 BCE)
St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)
Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the Addition of Practic of the New Science (Cornell Paperbacks) by Giambattista Vico (1725)
Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Voltaire (1759)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Second Edition by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (2006 Edition)
Libra (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo (2006 Edition)
Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
Breakfast of Champions: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (2006 Edition)
The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (2006 Edition)
Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (2006/2008 Edition)
Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
Dead Souls (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
V. (Perennial Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
Crime and Punishment (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (2006/2008 Edition)
Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (2006/2008 Edition)
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme (2006/2008 Edition)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
Mao II by DON DELILLO (2006/2008 Edition)
Underworld (Scribner Classics) by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (2006/2008 Edition)
Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (2006/2008 Edition)
The Plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
Stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
The Idiot (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008 Edition)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2006/2008 Edition)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006/2008 Edition)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (2006/2008 Edition)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
Great Expectations (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (2006/2008 Edition)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2006/2008 Edition)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
Jude the Obscure (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) by Cormac McCarthy (2008 Edition)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (2008 Edition)
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2008 Edition)
2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (2)

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

The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology by John W. Campbell, Jr., Ed. (16)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (22)

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

The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology by John W. Campbell, Jr., Ed. (8)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (9)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (15)
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (25)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (1)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (2)
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (20)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (22)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (28)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (1)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (3)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (14)
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (25)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (38)
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (40)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (creative writing)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (1997)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (5)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (53)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (54)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (67)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (5)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (52)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (60)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (69)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)
Handbook of Epictetus by Epictetus (Non-fiction, 1999)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (Fiction, 1999)
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
Crime and Punishment (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)

Ambassador Book Award

Underworld (Scribner Classics) by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1998)

American Book Award

The Tunnel by William H. Gass (1996)
Underworld (Scribner Classics) by Don DeLillo (1998)

American Library Association Notable Book

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) by Cormac McCarthy (1993)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Bancarella

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)

BBC's Big Read

Great Expectations (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (Best loved novel, 2003, No 39)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
Crime and Punishment (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 87)
Jude the Obscure (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 111)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Best loved novel, 2003, No 124)
Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 185)

Believer Book Award

Remainder by Tom Mccarthy (2008)

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

The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Homer

Book Sense Book of the Year

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2002)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)

Booker Prize

The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (1983)

Borges' A Personal Library

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Collection, 2005)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (First Novel, 2000)
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (Novel, 2002)

British Science Fiction Association Award

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (Literary Classics)
St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. (History/Biography, 2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Fiction, Silver, 1953)

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

Ditmar Award

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (International Fiction, 1970)

Duff Cooper Prize

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

Edgar Award Nominee

The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus (Tragedy, 458 BCE)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Geffen Award

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2002)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2005)

Guardian 1000

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Comedy)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Comedy)
Dead Souls (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Nikolai Gogol (Comedy)
The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka (Comedy)
Breakfast of Champions: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (Comedy)
Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes (Comedy)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Comedy)
Crime and Punishment (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime)
V. (Perennial Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (Crime)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon (Crime)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Crime)
The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco (Crime)
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (Family and self)
Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
Great Expectations (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (Family and self)
The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde (Family and self)
Stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Love)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Love)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Love)
Jude the Obscure (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Love)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Underworld (Scribner Classics) by Don DeLillo (State of the nation)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (State of the nation)
White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo (State of the nation)
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe (State of the nation)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (State of the nation)
The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis (State of the nation)
The Idiot (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (State of the nation)
The Plague by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (State of the nation)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (War and travel)
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (War and travel)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (War and travel)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (War and travel)
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (War and travel)
Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herman Melville (War and travel)
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) by Cormac McCarthy (War and travel)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain (War and travel)
Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Voltaire (War and travel)

Guardian First Book Award

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)

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

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2009)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (John E. Woods, 1996)

Hugo

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Novel, 1953, awarded 2004)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (Novel, 1963)
Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (Novel, 1966)
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Novel, 1974)

Hugo Nominee

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel, 1970)

International IMPAC Dublin

Underworld (Scribner Classics) by Don DeLillo (Shortlist, 1999)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Shortlist, 2003)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Shortlist, 2007)
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (Winner, 2002)

IPPY

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (Religion, 2005)

Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize

Libra (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo (1989)

James Fenimore Cooper Prize

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2005)

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