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

The Odyssey by Homer. (8th – early 7th century BCE)
The Iliad by Homer. (8th – early 7th century BCE)
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (3 volumes) by Dante [translated By Allen Mandelbaum] Alighieri (1321)
Common Sense (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Paine (1776)
The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx (1848)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008 Edition)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (2006/2008 Edition)

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

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)

25 Books to Remember from 2007

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.) by David W. Blight Ph. D. (New York Public Library)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (68)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (70)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Odyssey by Homer. (Poetry, 1999)
Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by STEPHEN W. HAWKING (Non-fiction, 1999)
John Adams by David McCullough (History, 2004)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage) by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama ( Change Your World, 2010)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

The problem of slavery in the age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis (1975)

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: August 2009

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

Amazon's Best Books of the Month: February 2009

The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E. Ricks

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

Ambassador Book Award

Woodrow Wilson : A Biography (Signature Series) by August Heckscher (Biography/Autobiography, 1992)
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography/Autobiography, 1995)
American sphinx : the character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography, 1998)
John Adams by David McCullough (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 by Thomas E. Ricks (Current Affairs, 2007)

American Book Award

Arthur Ross Book Award

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by James Mann (Honorable mention, 2005)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 by Thomas E. Ricks (Honorable mention, 2007)
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek (Honorable mention, 2008)

Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON THE PATH TO POWER by Robert A. Caro (1986)

Bancroft Prize

Crisis of the Old Order (Age of Roosevelt) by Arthur Schlesinger (1958)
The problem of slavery in the age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis (1976)
The age of federalism by Stanley M. Elkins (1994)

Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Prize for Non-Fiction

Secrets : a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers by Daniel Ellsberg

BBC's Big Read

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)

Benjamin Barondess Award

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller (2003)
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Harold Holzer (2005)
Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)
Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds (2009)

Benjamin Franklin Award

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2005)

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

The Iliad by Homer.

Benjamin Franklin Award (Autobiography/Biography/Memoirs, 2006) Black Dog & Leventhal edition

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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

The Odyssey by Homer.

Best Selling Novel of the 19th Century

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1800-1900)

British Book Award

My life by Bill Clinton (Biography of the Year, 2005)

Carl Sandburg Award

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (3 volumes) by Dante [translated By Allen Mandelbaum] Alighieri (Literary Classics)
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Christianity Today Book Awards

Darwin's black box : the biochemical challenge to evolution by Michael J. Behe (No. 1, 1997, Book of the Year)
Christianity in crisis by Hank Hanegraaff (No. 5, 1994, Readers' Choice)
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip E. Johnson (No. 5, 1998)
The Body: Being Light in Darkness by Charles W Colson (No. 10, 1993, Readers' Choice)
Jesus under fire by Michael J. Wilkins (No. 10, 1996, tie)

The Christopher Award for Non-Fiction

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.) by David W. Blight Ph. D. (2008)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by John Niven (Nonfiction, Silver, 1973)
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (Nonfiction, Silver, 1998)
Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape, Tenth-Anniversary Edition by Galen A. Rowell (Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1986)

The Connecticut Book Award

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.) by David W. Blight Ph. D. (non-fiction, 2008)

Cox Book Prize

The age of federalism by Stanley M. Elkins (1995)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

John Adams by David McCullough (2001)

ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award

The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel (Missions/Evangelism, 1999)

Fletcher Pratt Award

This hallowed ground : the story of the Union side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton (1956)
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote (1963)
The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington (1968)
Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton (1969)
The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote (1974)
Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W Sears (1983)
Confederate Goliath : the battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg (1991)
Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears (1996)
To the North Anna River : Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea (2000)
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears (2003)

Founder's Award

Fighting for the Confederacy : the personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander by Edward Porter Alexander (1989/90)

Francis Parkman Prize

Crisis of the Old Order (Age of Roosevelt) by Arthur Schlesinger (1958)
Truman by David McCullough (1993)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum (1998)
John Adams by David McCullough (2002)
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (honorable mention, 2005)

Galaxy British Book Award

The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama (2009, shortlist)

George Pendleton Prize

The House : the history of the House of Representatives by Robert Vincent Remini (2007)

George Washington Book Prize

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2005)

Guardian 1000

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (State of the nation)
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (War and travel)

H. L. Mencken Award

THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON THE PATH TO POWER by Robert A. Caro (1983)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by STEPHEN W. HAWKING

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Hugo

Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Related Book, 1981)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (1999)

Jefferson Davis Award

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable (2002)

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