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

• Your mirror to my times; the selected autobiographies and impressions of Ford Madox Ford by Ford Madox Ford (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic of Plato in ten books by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (120 AD)
• Tacitus: Historical Works Vol I The Annals by Tacitus (120 AD)
• Summa theologica by Aquinas Thomas, Saint (1266–1273)
• The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli (1532)
• The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come (Everyman's library. Romance. [no. 204]) (Everyman' by John Bunyan (1684)
• Reflections on the Revolution in Framce & other essays by Edmond Burke (1790)
• War and peace;: A novel (Modern Library Giants, G1.1) by Leo Tolstoy (1869)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2006 Edition)
• The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come (Everyman's library. Romance. [no. 204]) (Everyman' by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre (2006 Edition)
• The first circle by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Adventures of Joseph Andrews & his friend Mr. Abraham by Henry Fielding (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and peace;: A novel (Modern Library Giants, G1.1) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Remembrance of things past by Marcel Proust (2006/2008 Edition)
• The charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• The history of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (2006/2008 Edition)
• The edge of day; a boyhood in the west of England by Laurie Lee (2006/2008 Edition)
• The magic mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (2006/2008 Edition)
• HER PRIVATE WE by Private 19022 (2006/2008 Edition)
• Growth of the soil by Knut Hamsun (2006/2008 Edition)
• Doctor Faustus by Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (2006/2008 Edition)
• The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift (2006/2008 Edition)
• Parade's end by Ford Madox Ford (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Of human bondage; by William Somerset Maugham (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein or the modern prometheus by Mary W. Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita (Everyman's Library Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann (2008 Edition)
• All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International) by Cormac Mccarthy (2008 Edition)
• The manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008 Edition)
• Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics) by Ernst Jünger (2008 Edition)

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

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (2009, No 593, Age 8 and over)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (15)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library) by Naguib Mahfouz (creative writing, top twelve)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (1974)
• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (1985)

An ALA Notable Book

• Lizard Music by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• King Lear (The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare) (The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Phillips Feynman (Biography, 1999)
• Mythology (Mentor) by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (Non-fiction, 1999)
• What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Phillips Feynman (Science & Technology, 2004)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Virginian,: A horseman of the plains by Owen Wister ( Western, 2001)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)

Alan Paton Award

• The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize

• The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force by Douglas Porch (1992)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White (1997)

American Library Association Notable Book

• All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International) by Cormac Mccarthy (1993)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1952)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (2004)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1994)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2000)
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2004)

Bancarella

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1958)

BBC's Big Read

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• War and peace;: A novel (Modern Library Giants, G1.1) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 36)
• Watership Down by Richard Adams (Best loved novel, 2003, No 42)
• The Master and Margarita (Everyman's Library Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 159)
• The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye (Best loved novel, 2003, No 168)
• Frankenstein or the modern prometheus by Mary W. Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)

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

• Your mirror to my times; the selected autobiographies and impressions of Ford Madox Ford by Ford Madox Ford

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)

Booker Prize

• Saville: A Novel by David Storey (1976)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Constance, or, Solitary practices by Lawrence Durrell (1982)
• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (1984)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Everyman's Library Classics 6 Vols) by Edward Gibbon
• The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian by Marco Polo
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus

British Book Award

• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (History Book of the Year, 2004)
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (Book of the Year, 1997)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (1984)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1993)
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2003)

Carnegie Medal

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The seven storey mountain by Thomas Merton (Holy Men and Women)
• Apologia pro vita sua by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman (Holy Men and Women)

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

• Field Guide to Eastern Birds 4ED (Peterson Field Guides) by Roger Tory Peterson

Crossword Prize

• An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (English-language fiction, 1999)

Crossword Prize shortlist

• An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (1999)

Deux Magots

• The forgotten soldier by Guy Sajer (1968)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox (1973)
• Life in the English country house : a social and architectural history by Mark Girouard (1978)
• The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes (1987)
• Gulag : a history by Anne Applebaum (2003)

Edgar Award

• Encyclopedia of mystery and detection (Critical / Biographical, 1977)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Fact Crime, 2004)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Watcher in the shadows by Geoffrey Household (Novel, 1961)

EMMA - BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award

• An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (2001)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1995)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian by Marco Polo (010)
• Two Years before the mast by Richard Henrt Dana (014)
• Travels in West Africa (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Mary Kingsley (018)
• Seven years in Tibet; by Heinrich Harrer (020)
• Journal of Researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited during the voyage of by Charles Darwin (023)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence (024)
• The Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park (025)
• First footsteps in East Africa, (Half title: Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Travel) (Half title: Everyman' by Richard Francis Burton (029)
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (037)
• My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin (043)
• Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty (051)
• Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Everyman's library, no. 50) by John Hanning Speke (056)
• We die alone by David Armine Howarth (083)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

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

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Goncourt des lycéens

• Dreams of my Russian summers by Andreï Makine (1995)

Governor General's Literary Award

• The Manticore by Robertson Davies (English language Fiction, 1972)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Roman étranger, 1997)

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

• The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte (International Prize, 1993)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (General Nonfiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

• Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell (Comedy)
• The history of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (Comedy)
• Whisky galore by Compton Mackenzie, Sir (Comedy)
• The Adventurs of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain Rene Le Sage (Comedy)
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Comedy)
• Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's hunt by Robert Smith Surtees (Comedy)
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• The Adventures of Joseph Andrews & his friend Mr. Abraham by Henry Fielding (Comedy)
• Greenmantle by John Buchan (Crime)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre (Crime)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Crime)
• The four just men by Edgar Wallace (Crime)
• Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal (Family and self)
• Remembrance of things past by Marcel Proust (Family and self)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev (Family and self)
• A Legacy by Sybille Bedford (Family and self)
• Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (Family and self)
• The edge of day; a boyhood in the west of England by Laurie Lee (Family and self)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Family and self)
• Of human bondage; by William Somerset Maugham (Love)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Love)
• The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye (Love)
• Frankenstein or the modern prometheus by Mary W. Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Master and Margarita (Everyman's Library Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Sybil or the two nations by Benjamin Disraeli (State of the nation)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (State of the nation)
• The magic mountain by Thomas Mann (State of the nation)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (War and travel)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (War and travel)
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (War and travel)
• All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International) by Cormac Mccarthy (War and travel)
• Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift (War and travel)
• Flashman: A Novel (Flashman) by George MacDonald Fraser (War and travel)
• Justine by Lawrence Durrell (War and travel)
• The charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (War and travel)
• Parade's end by Ford Madox Ford (War and travel)
• War and peace;: A novel (Modern Library Giants, G1.1) by Leo Tolstoy (War and travel)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (War and travel)
• South wind by Norman Douglas (War and travel)
• The Virginian,: A horseman of the plains by Owen Wister (War and travel)
• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (War and travel)
• Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman by Vasily Grossman (War and travel)

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (1973)

Guardian Fiction Prize

• Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard (1984)

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

• The edge of day; a boyhood in the west of England by Laurie Lee (2009)
• Flashman's lady by George MacDonald Fraser (2009)

Hammett Prize

• Kingdom of shadows : a novel by Alan Furst (2001)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Frankenstein or the modern prometheus by Mary W. Shelley

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