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

• The Iliad (A Mentor Classic) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• HOMER THE ODYSSEY by Robert Fitzgerald (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (3rd century BCE)
• The Analects of Confucius by Arthur Waley (5th–4th century BCE)
• Plato's Republic by G.M.A. Grube (380 BCE)
• On the Nature of the Universe (Classics) by Lucretius (55 BCE)
• Classics Club: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
• The Essayes of Montaigne (Modern Library) by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal (1670)
• A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Mor (Penguin Classic by David Hume (1740)
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• Either / Or by Soren Kierkegaard (1843)
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1848)
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
• Relativity: The Special and the General Theory--A Clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand by Albert Einstein (1916)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• A Christmas Carol: In Prose (The Classic Series) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• CANNERY ROW by John Steinbeck (2006 Edition)
• Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (2006/2008 Edition)
• Walden (Classics club library) by Henry David Thoreau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Contact by Carl Sagan (2006/2008 Edition)
• The rebel : an essay on man in revolt by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• David Copperfield (World's Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008 Edition)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• The stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (2008 Edition)

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

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 467, Age 8 and over)
• Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)

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

• The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke (22)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke (17)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke (32)

ABA ABBY Winner

• The Education of Little Tree (A Zia Book) by Forrest Carter (1991)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson (1968)
• Journey to Ixtlan(The Lessons of Don Juan) by Carlos Castaneda (1973)
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)
• The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (1982)
• The End of Nature by Bill Mckibben (1990)
• There's a Hair in My Dirt by Gary Larson (1999)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• HOMER THE ODYSSEY by Robert Fitzgerald (Poetry, 1999)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (Biography, 1999)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)
• INNUMERACY MATHEMATICAL ILLITERACY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES by John Allen Paulos (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (A Mentor Book) by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Lives of a Cell Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes by Stephen W. Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (History, 2004)
• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold (Science & Technology, 2009)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Science & Technology, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach ( Books for the Soul, 1997)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister ( Western, 2001)
• There's a Hair in My Dirt by Gary Larson (Humor, 2001)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• There's a Hair in My Dirt by Gary Larson (1999)

Alex Award

• Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Robert Sullivan (2005)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Making Things Grow : a Practical Guide for the Indoor Gardener by Cruso Thalassa (1997)
• The Practical Gardener: Mastering the Elements of Good Growing by Roger B. Swain (1997)
• Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada by Bailey Hortorium (1997)
• Annuals: Yearly Classics for the Contemporary Garden (Proctor, Rob//Antique Flowers) by Rob Proctor (1997)
• The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques by Rosalind Creasy (1997)
• Rock Gardening...a Guide to Growing Alpines and Other Wildflowers by H. Lincoln Foster (1997)
• An island garden by Celia Thaxter (1997)
• Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett (1997)
• Second Nature by Michael Pollan (1997)
• Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards by Sara Bonnett Stein (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation by Ken Druse (2001)
• The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz (2006)

American Institute of Physics Prize

• Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands (Scientist in the Field) by Sneed B. Collard III (2006)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

Bancarella

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

BBC's Big Read

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 25)
• David Copperfield (World's Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 46)
• A Christmas Carol: In Prose (The Classic Series) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 47)
• Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (Best loved novel, 2003, No 175)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (Best loved novel, 2003, No 179)

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

• The Iliad (A Mentor Classic) by Homer

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

• HOMER THE ODYSSEY by Robert Fitzgerald

BILBY

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 1997)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Orchid Thief - A True Story Of Beauty And Obsession by Susan Orlean (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ( Children's Literature Honor Book, 2007)

Book-of-the-Month Club selection

• The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know About the Past by Jane McIntosh

Borders Original Voices

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (2002)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita
• The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions by Thorstein Veblen
• The Works Of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

British Book Award

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Book of the Year, 2004)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Christopher Award

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Flowering Earth by Donald C. Peattie (Scholarship, Silver, 1939)

The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (merit in the realm of books, Women's National Book Association)

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

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

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

• The stranger by Albert Camus
• The Plague by Albert Camus

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

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

Edgar Award Nominee

• Sherlock Holmes: The Man And His World by H. R. F. Keating (Critical / Biographical, 1980)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (007)
• The Voyage of the Beagle with Introductions and Notes (The Harvard Classics [Leatherbound], Deluxe Edition, Registered E by Charles Darwin (023)
• The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher (045)

Gourmand World Cookbook

• Windows on the World Complete Wine Course by Kevin Zraly (Wine educational book, 2000)

Guardian 1000

• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (Comedy)
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (Family and self)
• The stranger by Albert Camus (Family and self)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions) by James Joyce (Family and self)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Oscar Wilde (Family and self)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Love)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (State of the nation)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig (War and travel)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (War and travel)
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes by Stephen W. Hawking

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• the Immense Journey by Loren C. Eiseley
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• The Perennial Philosophy by Huxley Aldous
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections By C. G. Jung by Carl G. (recorded & Edited By Aniela Jaffe; Translated By Winston Jung, Clara &
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The phenomenon of man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

History Book Club selection

• The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know About the Past by Jane McIntosh

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1938)
• The Voyage of the Beagle with Introductions and Notes (The Harvard Classics [Leatherbound], Deluxe Edition, Registered E by Charles Darwin (1960)
• The Challenge of the Sea by Arthur C. Clarke (1961)

Hugo

• Animal Farm by George Orwell (Novella, 1946, awarded 1996)
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Related Book, 1981)

International and US Councils of Woman Citation

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

IPPY

• Museum of Lost Wonder by Jeff Hoke (Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Drama/Documentary, 2007)
• THE COMPLETE FAR SIDE, 2 VOLUMES by Gary LARSON (Humor, 2004)

IPPY Finalist

• Plants of the Lewis & Clark Expedition by Wayne Phillips (Science, 2004)

Irish Book Award Nominee

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

Isaak Walton League Annual Founders Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

James Beard Award

• Cheese Primer by Steven Jenkins

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