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

• Odyssey of Homer (Harper Colophon Books, CN 479) by Richmond Lattimore (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Iliad of Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War : Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) by Robert Fitzgerald (19 BCE)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
• Montaigne: Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne (1580)
• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1615)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Persuasion (Tor Classics) by Jane Austen (2006 Edition)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006 Edition)
• The Little Prince (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre (2006/2008 Edition)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by fils Dumas, Alexandre (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Razor's Edge (Vintage International) by W. Somerset Maugham (2006/2008 Edition)
• Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Stranger (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Jungle (The Penguin American Library) by Upton Sinclair (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (1)
• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (15)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (1)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

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

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (1998, 12)
• Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (2004, 87)
• Persuasion (Tor Classics) by Jane Austen (2007, 54)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Odyssey of Homer (Harper Colophon Books, CN 479) by Richmond Lattimore (Poetry, 1999)
• King Lear PEL (Shakespeare, Pelican) by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (Biography, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman ( Magic in the Real World, 2008)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

Ambassador Book Award

• This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (Biography/Autobiography, 1990)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)

American Library Association - Notable Books for Adults - Fiction

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Razor's Edge (Vintage International) by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2003)

Bad Sex in Fiction Award

• I Am Charlotte Simmons : A Novel by Tom Wolfe (2004)

BBC's Big Read

• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 01)
• Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)
• Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 26)
• Persuasion (Tor Classics) by Jane Austen (Best loved novel, 2003, No 38)
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Best loved novel, 2003, No 39)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by fils Dumas, Alexandre (Best loved novel, 2003, No 44)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 48)
• Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• The Little Prince (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)

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

• The Iliad of Homer

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

• Odyssey of Homer (Harper Colophon Books, CN 479) by Richmond Lattimore

BILBY

• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 2002)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2006)
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2008)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) by Robert Fitzgerald
• Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus

British Book Award

• Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore (Book of the Year, 2003)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2002)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Literary Classics)
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Spiritual Classics)
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, Gold, 2000)

Cultural Medal

• Black Rain: A Novel (Japan's Modern Writers S.) by Masuji Ibuse (Japan)

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

• The Stranger (Vintage International) by Albert Camus
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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

• The Art of War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Sun Tzu (Strategy)

Franz Kafka Prize

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Novel, 2001)

Great Lakes Book Award

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (Comedy)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Comedy)
• Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by fils Dumas, Alexandre (Crime)
• The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) by William Faulkner (Family and self)
• The Stranger (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (Family and self)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Family and self)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (Love)
• Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen (Love)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Love)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Love)
• Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (Love)
• Persuasion (Tor Classics) by Jane Austen (Love)
• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) by Haruki Murakami (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Little Prince (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (State of the nation)
• The Jungle (The Penguin American Library) by Upton Sinclair (State of the nation)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Razor's Edge (Vintage International) by W. Somerset Maugham

Hugo

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

Hugo Nominee

• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (Novel, 2003)

International Fantasy Award

• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Fiction, 1957)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) by Haruki Murakami (Shortlist, 1999)
• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Shortlist, 2004)
• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq (Winner, 2002)

IPPY

• My Misspent Youth: Essays by Meghan Daum (Essay/Creative Non-Fiction, 2002)
• The Art of War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

IPPY Finalist

• Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator: Side By Side by Wendy Crumpler (Computer/Internet, 2001)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Harvard Paperbacks) by Paul S. Boyer (1974)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

• Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1886)

Kirby Award

• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (Best Graphic Album, Best Art Team, 1987)

Lambda Literary Award

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Humor, 2000)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Transgender, 2002)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) by William Faulkner (5)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (15)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (18)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (71)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Locus

• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (SF Novel, 2003)

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