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

• I And Thou by Martin Buber (1923)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus (2006 Edition)
• Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges (2006 Edition)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (2006 Edition)
• Yes (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006 Edition)
• Celestial Harmonies: A Novel (P.S.) by Peter Esterhazy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch (2006/2008 Edition)
• Hunger: A Novel by Knut Hamsun (2006/2008 Edition)
• Contempt (New York Review Books Classics) by Alberto Moravia (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) by George Grossmith (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Heinrich Böll (2006/2008 Edition)
• Hell by Henri Barbusse (2006/2008 Edition)
• Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
• All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani (2006/2008 Edition)
• I'm Not Stiller (A Harvest Book) by Max Frisch (2006/2008 Edition)
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau (2006/2008 Edition)
• The End of the Story: A Novel by Lydia Davis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Vertigo by W.G. Sebald (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cigarettes (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Harry Mathews (2006/2008 Edition)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2006/2008 Edition)
• White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille (2006/2008 Edition)
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nightwood (Faber Fiction Classics) by Djuna Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Oblomov by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (2006/2008 Edition)
• Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Magus by John Fowles (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• Money by Martin Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) by Patrick Suskind (2006/2008 Edition)
• Green Henry by Gottfried Keller (2008 Edition)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)
• As a Man Grows Older (New York Review Books Classics) by Italo Svevo (2008 Edition)
• Michael Kohlhaas (The Art of the Novella) by Heinrich von Kleist (2008 Edition)
• Closely Watched Trains (European Classics) by Bohumil Hrabal (2008 Edition)
• The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky (2008 edition)
• Measuring the World: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann (2008 Edition)
• Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (2008 edition)

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

• Nicholas by René Goscinny (2009, No 234, Age 5 and over)
• The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit Mini Edition by Werner Holzwarth (2009, Ages 3↑)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (5)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake (12)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (7)

AIP Science Writing Award

• Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time by Marcia Bartusiak (2001)

AKO Literatuurprijs Nominatie

• The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch (1993)

ALA Notable Books

• Five Seasons (Harvest Book) by A. B. Yehoshua (1990)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Sex Variant Women in Literature by Jeannette Howard Foster (1974)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

• Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe (Pa by Charles Bernheimer ( Honorable Mention)

Ambassador Book Award

• Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers (Fiction, 2004)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• Nicholas by René Goscinny (2006)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick White (1961)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle) by John Crowley (1988)

Batchelder Honor

• Nicholas by René Goscinny (2006)

BBC's Big Read

• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Best loved novel, 2003, No 43)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 48)
• The Magus by John Fowles (Best loved novel, 2003, No 67)
• Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) by Patrick Suskind (Best loved novel, 2003, No 71)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (Best loved novel, 2003, No 129)
• Papillon (P.S.) by Henri Charriere (Best loved novel, 2003, No 147)
• The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) by George Grossmith (Best loved novel, 2003, No 186)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• Poe: Illustrated Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Robert Klanten

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

• Kalooki Nights: A Novel by Howard Jacobson (2000)

Booker Prize

• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Kalooki Nights: A Novel by Howard Jacobson (2006)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984)

Borges' A Personal Library

• An Experiment With Time (Studies in Consciousness) (Studies in Consciousness) by J. W. Dunne

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz (Fiction, Silver, 2005)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Best Book, 2000)

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

• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
• The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

• Snow White and Russian Red by Dorota Maslowska (Jugendbuch, 2005)

Ditmar Shortlist

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

Drama Desk Award

• The Coast of Utopia (Box Set) by Tom Stoppard (New Play, 2006-2007)

Femina

• Love, etc. by Julian Barnes (Étranger, 1992)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (Booms and Busts)

Governor General's Literary Award

• The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky (Fiction, 1984)

Governor General's Literary Award Finalist

• Helpless: A Novel by Barbara Gowdy (Fiction, 2007)

Guardian 1000

• Money by Martin Amis (Comedy)
• Oblomov by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (Comedy)
• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (Comedy)
• The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) by George Grossmith (Comedy)
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (Comedy)
• Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson (Comedy)
• Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Comedy)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Comedy)
• Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) by Patrick Suskind (Crime)
• Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (Family and self)
• Hunger: A Novel by Knut Hamsun (Family and self)
• Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth (Family and self)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Love)
• Nightwood (Faber Fiction Classics) by Djuna Barnes (Love)
• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Love)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (Love)
• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (Love)
• The Magus by John Fowles (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics) by G. K. Chesterton (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (State of the nation)
• The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West (State of the nation)
• White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo (State of the nation)
• The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (State of the nation)
• The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek (War and travel)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (War and travel)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

• The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2009)
• The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (2009)
• The Magus by John Fowles (2009)

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

• Poe: Illustrated Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Robert Klanten (1)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) by Patrick Suskind

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• I And Thou by Martin Buber

Herralde

• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (1998)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Rock Crystal (Jewel) by Adalbert Stifter (1946)
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (1948)
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1968)

Hugo

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Novel, 1961)

Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize

• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987)

John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize Finalist

• The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander (2007)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• Poe: Illustrated Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Robert Klanten (1845)

Lambda Literary

• Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by Andre Aciman (Men's Fiction, 2008)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum (Gay Men's Studies, 1993)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Great Gatsby (Essential Penguin) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (22)
• The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West (51)
• Nightwood (Faber Fiction Classics) by Djuna Barnes (52)

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1968)

Libris Literatuur Prijs

• The Procedure by Harry Mulisch (1999)

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