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

• Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo (400 AD)
• Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Daniel Chanan Matt (12th century)
• New science : principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations by Giambattista Vico (1725)
• The Interpretation of Dreams (Modern Library) by Sigmund Freud (1900)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid (2006 Edition)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Folio) by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos (2006/2008 Edition)
• L'homme révolté by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Germinal by Emile Zola (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le Rouge Et Le Noir (Gf Flammarion) by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Silas Manor by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2006/2008 Edition)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)
• Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell (2008 Edition)

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

• The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm (2009, Ages 5↑)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States (Edge Books) (1995)

ALA Notable Book of the Year

• The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition by James McBride (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States (Edge Books) (Poetry, 1999)
• The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition by James McBride (Biography, 1999)
• The souls of black folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition by James McBride (Feel Good Books, 1998)
• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States (Edge Books) (Poetry, 2001)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature

• La Confession d'Augustin by J.-F. Lyotard (1999-2000)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France by Cynthia Jane Brown (1995)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition by James McBride (1997)

Barry Award

• La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (First Novel, 2005)

BBC's Big Read

• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)
• Silas Manor by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 184)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States (Edge Books) (1994)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ( Children's Literature Honor Book, 2007)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2003)

Borders Original Voices

• La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2005)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Libro de buen amor (Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics) (Spanish Edition) by Juan Ruiz

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

• Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)
• Dark Night of the Soul : A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross by St. John of the Cross (Spiritual Classics)
• The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Classics) by Thomas a Kempis (Spiritual Reading)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

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

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

• The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
• The souls of black folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

E. du Perron-prijs

• My Father's Notebook: A Novel by Kader Abdolah (2000)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Author Unknown: Tales of a Literary Detective by Donald W. Foster (Fact Crime, 2001)

Gaylactic Spectrum Shortlist

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

Guardian 1000

• Moo by Jane Smiley (Comedy)
• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Crime)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Family and self)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Folio) by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos (Love)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Silas Manor by George Eliot (State of the nation)
• Germinal by Emile Zola (State of the nation)
• Le Rouge Et Le Noir (Gf Flammarion) by Stendhal (State of the nation)

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

• A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs 2è partie by Proust M. (2009)

Gumshoe Award nominee

• La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (European Crime Novel, 2005)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States (Edge Books) (1995)

International IMPAC Dublin

• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Winner, 2003)

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart ( Honorable Mention)

John Nicholas Brown Prize

• Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce W. Holsinger (2005)

Libraires

• Les Aristocrates by M. de Saint Pierre (1955)

Libraires du Québec

• La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Lauréat Roman hors Québéc, 2005)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail (Science & Technology, 2007)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (2002)
• La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2004)

Miles Franklin Award Shortlist

• Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (2004)

Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book

• Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce W. Holsinger (2001)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• The souls of black folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (31)

National Book Award

• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Penguin Poets) by John Ashbery (Poetry, 1976)
• Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire (Translation, 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Penguin Poets) by John Ashbery (Poetry, 1975)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor (Criticism, 1991)
• Moo by Jane Smiley (Fiction, 1995)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2000)
• The Body in Pain : The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry (General Nonfiction, 1985)

New England Historical Association Book Award

• Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) by Fredric L. Cheyette (2001)

New York City Book Award

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

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Surveiller Et Punir Naissance De La Pris by Michel Foucault (1978)
• Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett (1991)
• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) by Steven Pinker (1994)
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio (1999)

New York Times bestseller

• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Fiction, 1943)
• Moo by Jane Smiley (Fiction, 1995)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2001)
• The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts (Fiction, 2002)
• The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child (General, 1968)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose (Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo (2009, No. 32)
• The souls of black folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (2009, No. 44)
• The Interpretation of Dreams (Modern Library) by Sigmund Freud (2009, No. 86)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Le Rouge Et Le Noir (Gf Flammarion) by Stendhal
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Folio) by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos (2003)

Pajiba's Best Books of the Generation

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2007, No 02)

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