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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)
• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Boston Globe, #7)

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

• The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) by Lucretius (55 BCE)
• Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Sextus Empiricus (150-210 AD)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke) by John Locke (1684)
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by George Berkeley (1710)
• A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume (1740)
• A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson (1755)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (1759)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• The Origin of Species (Modern Library) by Charles Darwin (1859)
• On Liberty by J. S. Mill (1859)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Selections) / Also sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books) by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
• The Trial (Modern Classics S.) by Franz Kafka (1925)
• Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)
• Syntactic Structures (Janua Linguarum Studia Memoriae, 4) by Noam Chomsky (1957)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Fables of Aesop (Classics S.) by Aesop (2006 Edition)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006 Edition)
• Labyrinths; selected stories and other writings [translated from the Spanish]; (Penguin modern classics) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• New Grub Street by George Gissing (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (2006/2008 Edition)
• Amok & Other Stories by Stefan Zweig (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Drowned and the Saved (Vintage International) by Primo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Novel (Vintage International) by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Zeno's Conscience: A Novel by Italo Svevo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Trial (Modern Classics S.) by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• Silas Marner (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Castle by Kafka Franz (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, A by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bleak House (Everyman's Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• David Copperfield (Modern Library) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations (Everyman's Library) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)
• Measuring the World: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann (2008 Edition)
• Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) by Andre Malraux (2008 Edition)
• The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2008 edition)
• Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis (2008 Edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)
• Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig (2008 Edition)

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

• The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition) by A. A. Milne (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Italian Folk Tales by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Fables of Aesop (Classics S.) by Aesop (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2009, Ages 8↑)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (10)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (1968)
• Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1986)
• Prehistory of the Far Side by Gary Larson (1991)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Lives of a Cell, The by Lewis Thomas (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Hydrogen: The Essential Element by John S. Rigden (Science & Technology, 2004)
• John Adams by David McCullough (History, 2004)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Good Poems by Garrison Keillor (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman ( Going Alternative, 1997)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Own Your Freak, 2005)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1997)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1997)

Alex Award

• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• The Anthologist: A Novel by Nicholson Baker (#98)

Amazon.com Best Books

• The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb by R. Crumb (Comics & Graphic Novels, 2009)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (American Arts & Letters, 1990)
• Up in the Old Hotel (Vintage) by Joseph Mitchell (American Arts & Letters, 1993)
• Morgan : American Financier by Jean Strouse (Biography/Autobiography, 2000)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)

American Book Award

• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch (1998)

American Library Association Notable Book, 1981

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
• Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis (1954)
• The Anti-death League by Kingsley Amis (1966)
• Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) by Saul Bellow (1975)

APR Honickman 1st Book Prize

• Things are Happening (APR Honickman 1st Book Award) by Joshua Beckman (1998)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle) by John Crowley (1988)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2005)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Bancroft Prize

• William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson (2007)

BBC's Big Read

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Best loved novel, 2003, No 15)
• Great Expectations (Everyman's Library) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• Middlemarch (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• David Copperfield (Modern Library) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Best loved novel, 2003, No 36)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Bleak House (Everyman's Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 154)
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• Lolita (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
• Silas Marner (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 184)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)

Boeke Prize

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2002)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2003)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2004)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2008)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Gifted: A Novel by Nikita Lalwani (2007)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (1991)
• Headlong: A Novel by Michael Frayn (1999)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2001)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2004)
• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
• On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2007)

Borders Original Voices

• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (2003)

Borges' A Personal Library

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

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

British Book Award

• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (Literary Fiction, 2005)
• 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)
• On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Book of the Year, 2008)

British Book Awards Author of the Year Shortlist

• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2007)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (Literary Classics)
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by A. G. Sertillanges (Misc)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)

CBA Libris Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2003)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan (2004)

Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

Christianity Today Book Awards

• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins (Apologetics/Evangelism, 2007)
• Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives Biographies (Paperback)) by Garry Wills (History/Biography, 2000)
• The Oxford Companion to the Bible by Bruce M. Metzger (Reference, No. 1, 1994, Critics' Choice)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2000)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2007)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• Men of mathematics by Eric Temple Bell (Scholarship, Gold, 1937)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Never Let Me Go (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Best Book, Eurasia Region, 2006)

Costa Shortlist

• Gifted: A Novel by Nikita Lalwani (First Novel, 2007)

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

• To the Finland station; a study in the writing and acting of history. by Edmund Wilson
• Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books) by Robert Graves
• The Compact Oxford English Dictionary: in slipcase with reading glass
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

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

• The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus

Desmond Elliot Prize

• Gifted: A Novel by Nikita Lalwani

Ditmar Shortlist

• The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle) by John Crowley (International Fiction, 1989)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• John Adams by David McCullough (2001)

Drama Desk Award

• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (New Play, 1999-2000)
• The History Boys by Alan Bennett (New Play, 2005-2006)
• The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard (New Play, 2006-2007)

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