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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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 History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Aeneid: Virgil by Virgil (19 BCE)
• An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations by Adam Smith (1776)
• On the origin of the species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for l by Charles Darwin (1859)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006 Edition)
• The Master of Petersburg: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J. M. Coetzee (2006 Edition)
• A Christmas Carol by Rh Value Publishing (2006 Edition)
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• A bend in the river by V. S. Naipaul (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (2008 Edition)

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

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (2009, No 732, Age 12 and over)
• A Christmas Carol by Rh Value Publishing (2009, Ages 8↑)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• The Famished Road by Ben Okri (creative writing)
• Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto (creative writing, top twelve)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (2003)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Longitude Uk Edition True Story of a Lone Gen by Dava Sobel (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2005)

Alan Paton Award

• Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham (1992)
• Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader (1998)

Alex Award

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2004)

Ambassador Book Award

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (American Studies, 2005)

Anthony Award

• In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson (Best Novel, 2000)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell (1957)
• A bend in the river by V. S. Naipaul (1979)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2005)

Arthur Ross Book Award

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

Bancroft Prize

• The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (2006)

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Barry Award

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (First Novel, 2005)
• In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson (Novel, 2000)

BBC's Big Read

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• A Christmas Carol by Rh Value Publishing (Best loved novel, 2003, No 47)
• Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library Classics) by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
• Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)

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

• The Iliad by Homer

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

• The Odyssey by Homer

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven B. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2007)

Booker Prize

• The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Half a Life: A Novel by V.S. Naipaul (2001)
• Any Human Heart by William Boyd (2002)
• Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• A bend in the river by V. S. Naipaul (1979)
• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994)
• The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin (2004)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2004)

Borders Original Voices

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005)

Borges' A Personal Library

• New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Aeneid: Virgil by Virgil
• Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library Classics) by Joseph Conrad
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus

British Book Award

• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (Literary Fiction, 2005)
• Longitude Uk Edition True Story of a Lone Gen by Dava Sobel (Book of the Year, 1997)

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine of Hippo (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)

Christopher Award

• Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Graceland (Today Show Pick January 2005) by Chris Abani (Fiction, Silver, 2004)
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Nonfiction, Gold, 1998)
• Germany 1866-1945 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) by Gordon A. Craig (Nonfiction, Silver, 1978)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Best First Book, 2005)

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

• Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer

CWA

• WHITE RUSSIAN by TOM BRADBY (Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist, 2003)
• The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl (Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist, 2004)
• The God of Chaos by Tom Bradby (Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist, 2005)
• The Winter Queen: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mysteries) by Boris Akunin (Gold/Silver Dagger Shortlist, 2003)

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen (1999)

Dilys Award

• Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels) by John Dunning (1993)

Duff Cooper Prize

• The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding by Robert Hughes (1987)
• From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple (1998)
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2001)

Edgar Award Nominee

• In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson (Novel, 2000)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ( co-recipient)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library) by Wilfred Thesiger (005)
• South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton (015)
• TRAVLS WEST AFRICA by Mary Kingsley (018)
• A naturalist's voyage : journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the by Charles Darwin (023)
• Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph by T. E. Lawrence (024)
• Travels into the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park (025)
• First Footsteps in East Africa: Or an Exploration of Harar (Konemann Classics) by Richard F. Burton (029)
• In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon (044)
• Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty (051)
• Journal of the Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (056)
• Cooper's Creek: The Opening of Australia (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press) by Alan Moorehead (072)
• No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi (074)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations by Adam Smith (Economics)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Path Between Seas by David mccullough (1978)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (2005)
• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands (honorable mention, 2001)

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