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Guardian 1000 (Comedy)

• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

100 Essential New England Books

• A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (Boston Globe)

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 history of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• Herodotus: the Histories by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic of Plato by Plato (380 BCE)
• Plutarch's Lives translated from the orginal greek; with notes, critical and historical; and a life of Plutarch by Plutarch (120 AD)
• Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican; by Galileo Galilei (1632)
• A treatise of human nature by David Hume (1740)
• Candide ou L'optimisme by Voltaire (1759)
• Kritik der reinen Vernunft by Immanual Kant (1787)
• Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The logic of scientific discovery by Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1934)
• Cybernetics; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine by Norbert Wiener (1948)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (2006 Edition)
• The invisible man a grotesque romance by H. G. Wells (2006 Edition)
• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (2006 Edition)
• Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel by Evelyn Waugh (2006/2008 Edition)
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• The quiet American by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• The tin drum by Günter Grass (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le petit prince avec les dessins de l'auteur by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2006/2008 Edition)
• The nine tailors : changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008 Edition)
• Murder must advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008 Edition)
• Les faux monnayeurs by André Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• The waves by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mother by Maksim Gorky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Flaubert's parrot by Julian Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
• On the road by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008 Edition)
• A portrait of the artist as a young man; by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• La peste by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Labyrinths; selected stories & other writings by Jorge Luis Borges (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Animal farm by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (2006/2008 Edition)
• Orlando; a biography by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The cider house rules : a novel by John Irving (2006/2008 Edition)
• A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• The glass bees by Ernst Jünger (2008 Edition)
• Fifth business by Robertson Davies (2008 Edition)

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

• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (2009, No 467, Age 8 and over)
• Hänschen im Blaubeerenwald : ein neues Bilderbuch by Elsa Beskow (2009, Ages 3↑)
• Max and Moritz; with many more mischief-makers more or less human or approximately animal by Wilhelm Busch (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling (2009, Ages 5↑)

1949 Arkham Sampler Survey by August Derleth

• The short stories of H.G. Wells by H. G. Wells (5)

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

• The Astounding science fiction anthology (16)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (17)
• The short stories of H.G. Wells by H. G. Wells (19)

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

• The Astounding science fiction anthology (8)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (7)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (2)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (10)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (34)

ALA Notable Books

• A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Waiting for Godot; tragicomedy in 2 acts by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (History, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• On the road by Jack Kerouac (Journey > Destination, 2009)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work

• The Vienna coffeehouse wits, 1890-1938 by Harold B. Segel ( Honorable Mention)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (1949)
• Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Neverness : a novel by David Zindell (1990)
• Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (1994)

BBC's Big Read

• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 25)
• A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (Best loved novel, 2003, No 28)
• Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel by Evelyn Waugh (Best loved novel, 2003, No 45)
• Animal farm by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 46)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• On the road by Jack Kerouac (Best loved novel, 2003, No 90)
• Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog!) by Jerome K. Jerome (Best loved novel, 2003, No 101)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Best loved novel, 2003, No 159)
• Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• Le petit prince avec les dessins de l'auteur by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• On the road by Jack Kerouac (Audiobook - Adult Fiction, 2001)

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

• The Odyssey by Homer

BILBY

• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 1997)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The league of frightened men; a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout
• The nine tailors : changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals by Dorothy L. Sayers

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The complete cartoons of the New Yorker ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2005)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Flaubert's parrot by Julian Barnes (1984)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Major Barbara; a screen version by Bernard Shaw
• Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw
• Les faux monnayeurs by André Gide
• The invisible man a grotesque romance by H. G. Wells
• The travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
• The works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse
• Herodotus: the Histories by Herodotus

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (1993)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel by Evelyn Waugh (Literary Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Pound era by Hugh Kenner (Fiction, Silver, 1972)
• The ascent of man by Jacob Bronowski (Nonfiction, Gold, 1974)

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

• A field guide to the birds giving field marks of all species found east of the Rockies; by Roger Tory Peterson
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Deschooling society by Ivan Illich
• Goodbye to all that by Robert Graves
• Seven types of ambiguity by William Empson

CWA

• The wench is dead by Colin Dexter (Gold Dagger, 1989)

CWA Gold Dagger

• The wench is dead by Colin Dexter (1989)

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

• The stranger by Albert Camus
• La peste by Albert Camus
• To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Ditmar Shortlist

• Radix by A. A. Attanasio (International Fiction, 1982)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk (1991)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (010)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• 9-11 by Noam Chomsky (Politics, 2002)

Gigamesh

• Jurgen; a comedy of justice by James Branch Cabell (Fantasía, Novela, 1985)

Governor General's Literary Award

• The Gutenberg galaxy : the making of typographic man by Marshall McLuhan (Non-fiction, 1962)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

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

Griffin Poetry Prize

• Eunoia by Christian Bök (Canadian, 2002)

Guardian 1000

• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog!) by Jerome K. Jerome (Comedy)
• Zuleika Dobson by Sir Max Beerbohm (Comedy)
• Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (Comedy)
• Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Comedy)
• Flaubert's parrot by Julian Barnes (Comedy)
• The league of frightened men; a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout (Crime)
• Murder must advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers (Crime)
• Greenmantle by John Buchan (Crime)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Crime)
• This gun for hire by Graham Greene (Crime)
• The stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The history of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells (Family and self)
• A portrait of the artist as a young man; by James Joyce (Family and self)
• To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel by John Irving (Family and self)
• Green mansions; a romance of the tropical forest by W. H. Hudson (Love)
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (Love)
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (Love)
• A voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Nineteen eighty-four a novel by George Orwell (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Le petit prince avec les dessins de l'auteur by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Orlando; a biography by Virginia Woolf (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Animal farm by George Orwell (State of the nation)
• Les faux monnayeurs by André Gide (State of the nation)
• Mother by Maksim Gorky (State of the nation)
• La peste by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
• The recognitions a novel by William Gaddis (State of the nation)
• The tin drum by Günter Grass (War and travel)
• Candide ou L'optimisme by Voltaire (War and travel)
• On the road by Jack Kerouac (War and travel)
• Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (War and travel)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• The nine tailors : changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals by Dorothy L. Sayers (22)
• The league of frightened men; a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout (24)
• More work for the undertaker by Margery Allingham (40)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse
• Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Duino elegies; by Rainer Maria Rilke
• La peste by Albert Camus

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The hobbit: or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien (1938)
• Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling (1953)

Hugo

• A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge (Novel, 1993)
• Animal farm by George Orwell (Novella, 1946, awarded 1996)

Hugo Nominee

• Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel, 1964)

Ignotus Award

• Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (Foreign novel, 2001)

IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

• Some buried Caesar a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout
• Murder must advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey (Biography, 1921)
• Monsieur, or, The Prince of Darkness : a novel by Lawrence Durrell (Fiction, 1974)

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