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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 Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odyssey by Robert Fitzgerald (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Plato: Republic by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Books 1 and 2 by Thomas L. Heath (280 BCE)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (400 AD)
• The Divine comedy: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
• Don Quixote of LA Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
• Pragmatism (Dover Thrift Editions) by William James (1908)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungen by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Ground Beneath Her Feet : A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2006 Edition)
• A Room with a View (Dover Thrift Edition) by E.M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• The glass bead game (Magister Ludi); by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moll Flanders (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Defoe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Doctor Faustus; the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote of LA Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• The magic mountain = Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cat's Cradle by Jr. Vonnegut, Kurt (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• Emma (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman : The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein (Puffin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Suitable Boy : Novel, A by Vikram Seth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fear and loathing in Las Vegas; a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (2008 Edition)
• Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig (2008 Edition)

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

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (1)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C.S. Lewis (26)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (1)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Snow Falling on Cedars : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by David Guterson (Adult, 1996)
• Der Regenbogenfisch by Marcus Pfister (Children's, 1995)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (creative writing)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Robert Fitzgerald (Poetry, 1999)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde (Drama, 1999)
• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Science & Technology, 2009)

Ambassador Book Award

• Roger's Version by John Updike (Fiction, 1987)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Bancarella

• Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (1995)

BBC's Big Read

• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 36)
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Best loved novel, 2003, No 39)
• Emma (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 40)
• A Suitable Boy : Novel, A by Vikram Seth (Best loved novel, 2003, No 55)
• Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)
• Frankenstein (Puffin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
• Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (Best loved novel, 2003, No 175)

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

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

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

• The Odyssey by Robert Fitzgerald

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (1981)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)

Borders Original Voices

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (2001)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2002)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Moll Flanders (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Defoe
• The Greek Myths : Combined Edition by Robert Graves
• The glass bead game (Magister Ludi); by Hermann Hesse

Canada Reads Nominee

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote of LA Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
• The Divine comedy: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)

Christopher Award

• Der Regenbogenfisch by Marcus Pfister (Books for Young People, 1993)

Combat des livres

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (selection, 2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (Californiana, Gold, 1986)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Nonfiction, Gold, 2006)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)
• Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book) by E.T. Bell (Scholarship, Gold, 1937)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• A Suitable Boy : Novel, A by Vikram Seth (Best Book, 1994)

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

• Fear and loathing in Las Vegas; a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson

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

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

• Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (Jugendbuch, 1994)

Drama Desk Award

• Equus (Penguin Plays) by Peter Shaffer (New Foreign Play, 1974-1975)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

English-Speaking Union Award

• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2003)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

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

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright (Globalization)
• The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Freedom of Speech Award, American Library Association

• The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin

Guardian 1000

• The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman : The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
• Don Quixote of LA Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Comedy)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (Comedy)
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (Comedy)
• Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
• The Moviegoer (Vintage International) by Walker Percy (Family and self)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• A Suitable Boy : Novel, A by Vikram Seth (Family and self)
• Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)
• A Room with a View (Dover Thrift Edition) by E.M. Forster (Love)
• Emma (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jane Austen (Love)
• Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann (Love)
• The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C.S. Lewis (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The glass bead game (Magister Ludi); by Hermann Hesse (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Frankenstein (Puffin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The magic mountain = Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann (State of the nation)
• Moll Flanders (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Defoe (State of the nation)
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (State of the nation)
• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (State of the nation)
• War and Peace (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Leo Tolstoy (War and travel)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig (War and travel)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• The glass bead game (Magister Ludi); by Hermann Hesse
• Frankenstein (Puffin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

• The magic mountain = Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann (John E. Woods, 1996)
• Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann (Michael Henry Heim, 2005)

Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)

Hugo

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Novel, 1966)

Hugo Nominee

• Cat's Cradle by Jr. Vonnegut, Kurt (Novel, 1964)

IPPY

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (Outstanding Books of the Year, 2003)

IPPY Bronze

• A Room with a View (Dover Thrift Edition) by E.M. Forster (Erotica, 2007)

Irish Times International Fiction Prize Shortlist

• A Suitable Boy : Novel, A by Vikram Seth (1994)

James Beard Foundation Award

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Writing on Food, 2007)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (Fiction, 1924)
• Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1981)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (Ideologies of Desire) by Edward Stein (Gay Men's Studies, 1999)

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