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#1 business book of 2004

• The Automatic Millionaire : A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich by David Bach (BusinessWeek)

100 Essential New England Books

• Moby-Dick : or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text (13th–4th century BCE)
• The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic by Plato (380 BCE)
• Plutarch's lives / the Dryden translation, edited with preface by Arthur Hugh Clough ; introduction by James Atlas by Plutarch (120 AD)
• New Science (Penguin Classics) by Giambattista Vico (1725)
• A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume (1740)
• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith (1776)
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel (1807)
• On War (Penguin Classics) by Carl von Clausewitz (1832)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (1943)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• England Made Me (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene (2006 Edition)
• Less Than Zero (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (2006 Edition)
• Mary Barton (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell (2006 Edition)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lost Illusions (Penguin Classics) by Honore de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
• L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola (2006/2008 Edition)
• North and South (Norton Critical Editions) by Elizabeth Gaskell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pere Goriot: A New Translation : Responses, Contemporaries and Other Novelists, Twentieth-Century Criticism (Norton Crit by Honore de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby-Dick : or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008 Edition)
• American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Brighton Rock : (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Quiet American (Viking Critical Library) by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (53)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (60)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)

Alan Paton Award

• Scramble for Africa... by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Ambassador Book Award

• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (Biography/Autobiography, 1991)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
• Creation : A Novel (Vintage International) by Gore Vidal (1981)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (Gold medal, 2005)

Bancroft Prize

• Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald (1973)
• The Visible Hand : The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1978)

BBC's Big Read

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Moby-Dick : or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
• American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (Best loved novel, 2003, No 185)

Berkshire Conference First Book Prize

• Colonial Citizens by Elizabeth Thompson (2000)

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

• The Odyssey by Homer

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Otillo Rodriguez (Spiritual Classics)
• Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Nonfiction, Gold, 1998)

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

• To the Finland Station (New York Review Books Classics) by Edmund Wilson
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes

Crossword Prize

• Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage) by Suketu Mehta (non-fiction, 2005)

Crossword Prize shortlist

• Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage) by Suketu Mehta (2005)

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen (1999)

Duff Cooper Prize

• James Joyce (Oxford Lives S.) by Richard Ellmann (1982)
• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

Edgar Award

• The Life of Graham Greene : Volume I: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (Critical / Biographical, 1990)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The Life of Graham Greene : Volume III: 1955-1991 by Norman Sherry (Critical / Biographical Work, 2005)
• The Life of Graham Greene : Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry (Critical / Biographical, 1996)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Eisner Award

• The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, Book 1: Second Edition) by Frank Miller (Best Graphic Album: Reprint, 1993)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Journey without Maps (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene (040)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith (Economics)
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter (Economics)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes (Economics)
• The Way We Live Now (Modern Library Classics) by Anthony Trollope (Ethics)
• The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin (Globalization)
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Globalization)
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Power)
• The Art of War: New Translation by Sun-tzu (Strategy)
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (A Marketplace Book) by Edwin Lefèvre (Wall Street)

Guardian 1000

• Brighton Rock : (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Graham Greene (Crime)
• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• A Gun for Sale (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene (Crime)
• American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (Crime)
• Pere Goriot: A New Translation : Responses, Contemporaries and Other Novelists, Twentieth-Century Criticism (Norton Crit by Honore de Balzac (Family and self)
• Mary Barton (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell (Family and self)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Modern Library Classics) by Mark Twain (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (State of the nation)
• North and South (Norton Critical Editions) by Elizabeth Gaskell (State of the nation)
• The Way We Live Now (Modern Library Classics) by Anthony Trollope (State of the nation)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (State of the nation)
• Moby-Dick : or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

International Horror Guild Award

• Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis (Novel, 2005)

IPPY

• The Art of War: New Translation by Sun-tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

IPPY Bronze

• The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson (Finance/Investment/Economics, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• James Joyce (Oxford Lives S.) by Richard Ellmann (Biography, 1982)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (Biography, 1997)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• Colonial Citizens by Elizabeth Thompson (2000)

Kiriyama Prize

• Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage) by Suketu Mehta (Nonfiction, 2005)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Gore Vidal : A Biography by Fred Kaplan (Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography, 1999)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (18)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (22)
• American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis (76)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2004)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Ho Chi Minh : A Life by William J Duiker (2001)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith

Mark Lynton History Prize

• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)

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

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes (10)
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (62)
• James Joyce (Oxford Lives S.) by Richard Ellmann (73)

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

• The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek (16)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Board's List, 2)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (The Board's List, 19)

Médicis

• The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Étranger, 1982)

National Book Award

• Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald (Contemporary Affairs, 1973)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1953)
• James Joyce (Oxford Lives S.) by Richard Ellmann (Nonfiction, 1960)
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (Nonfiction, 1990)

National Book Award finalist

• The Origins of Totalitarianism : Introduction by Samantha Power by Hannah Arendt (Nonfiction, 1952)
• The Odyssey by Homer (Translation, 1968)

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