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100 Essential New England Books

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

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

• The Iliad of Homer by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Histories by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato (380 BCE)
• Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (167)
• The Divine Comedy (I) by Dante (1321)
• The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha Ozell's Revision of the Translation of Peter Motteux by Miguel De Cervantes (1615)
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Signet classics) by John Bunyan (1684)
• A treatise of human nature; (The Pelican classics) by David Hume (1740)
• CANDIDE by PHILIP VOLTAIRE with introduction by LITTELL (1759)
• Common Sense (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Paine (1776)
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness by William Godwin (1793)
• Essay on the Principles of Population ([Everyman's university library ; 692]) by T. R. Malthus (1803)
• Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel (1807)
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl; Possony Marx, Stephan T., Intro.; Engels, Friedrich, Preface (1848)
• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin (1859)
• The interpretation of dreams; (Discus books) by Sigmund Freud (1900)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
• The Road to Serfdom: A Classic Warning Against the Dangers to Freedom Inherent in Social Planning by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (1949)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Brothers Karamazov: Volume 1 (Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Signet classics) by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (2006 Edition)
• Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Labyrinth of Solitude Life and Thought in Mexico by Octavio Paz (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha Ozell's Revision of the Translation of Peter Motteux by Miguel De Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Rebel by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Red and the Black A New and Complete Translation by Lowell Bair by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Afterword-E. L. Epstein (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby Dick, or The Whale (Laurel Edition) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Steppenwolf by Herman HESSE (2006/2008 Edition)
• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Signet Classic) (2006/2008 Edition)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrena Infante (2008 Edition)

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

• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard Milne (2009, Ages 3↑)
• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (2009, Ages 3↑)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)

1952 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• The Illustrated Man (Bantam 991) (10)
• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (17)

1956 Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact All-Time Poll

• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (9)
• The Illustrated Man (Bantam 991) (22)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (34)

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

• The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse (1956)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut (67)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Afterword-E. L. Epstein (68)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (83)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (84)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut (69)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Afterword-E. L. Epstein (70)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (84)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (85)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1997)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey by Homer by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Drama, 1999)
• Rosencrantz Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Drama, 1999)
• No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre (Drama, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Signet Classic) (Fiction, 1999)
• What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles (Social Sciences, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)

American Book Award

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke (2005)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Their Identification, Ornamental Characters, Culture, Propagation and Uses) by Michael A. Dirr (1997)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (1949)
• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2004)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Gold medal, 2008)

Bancarella

• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (1953)

Bancroft Prize

• Franklin D Roosevelt And The New Deal by William E. Leuchtenburg (1964)
• White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812 by Winthrop D Jordan (1969)
• Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald (1973)
• Time on the Cross by Robert W. Fogel (1975)

BBC's Big Read

• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard Milne (Best loved novel, 2003, No 07)
• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• Crime and Punishment (Signet Classic) (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Afterword-E. L. Epstein (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)
• Moby Dick, or The Whale (Laurel Edition) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (Best loved novel, 2003, No 173)

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

• The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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

• The Odyssey by Homer by Homer

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
• Peer Gynt by Ibsen/meyer
• The Travels of Marco Polo (The Yule Edition)
• The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (The Modern Library) (The Modern library of the world's best books) by Thorstein Veblen
• The Histories by Herodotus

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2003)

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Steppenwolf by Herman HESSE

C. Wright Mills Award

• Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman (1974)
• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China by Theda Skocpol (1979)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The Divine Comedy (I) by Dante (Literary Classics)
• The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha Ozell's Revision of the Translation of Peter Motteux by Miguel De Cervantes (Literary Classics)
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)

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

• Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman
• Technics & Civilization by Lewis Mumford
• Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
• The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi

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

• The Plague by Albert Camus

Deutscher Memorial Prize

• Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence by G. A. Cohen (1979)
• The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe (Past and Present Publications) by T. H. Aston (1985)
• The Retreat From Class: A New 'True' Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood (1986)

Ditmar Award

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (International Fiction, 1985)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1995)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The Travels of Marco Polo (The Yule Edition) (010)

Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

• The World Is Flat (The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century) by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

• Aeschylus 1: Oresteia - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Richmond Lattimore David Grene (Tragedy, 458 BCE)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (Economics)
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter (Economics)
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)
• The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald (Ethics)
• Effective Executive (Harper colophon books) by Peter F Drucker (Negotiating & Managing)
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini (Power)
• Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro (Strategy)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Strategy)
• Sun Tzu: Art of War (History and Warfare) by Tzu Sun (Strategy)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Franklin D Roosevelt And The New Deal by William E. Leuchtenburg (1964)
• White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812 by Winthrop D Jordan (1969)

The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order

• After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy by Robert O. Keohane (1989)

Guardian 1000

• The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha Ozell's Revision of the Translation of Peter Motteux by Miguel De Cervantes (Comedy)
• Crime and Punishment (Signet Classic) (Crime)
• The Brothers Karamazov: Volume 1 (Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Family and self)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (Family and self)
• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway (Family and self)
• Steppenwolf by Herman HESSE (Family and self)
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Love)
• Blindness (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Afterword-E. L. Epstein (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (State of the nation)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
• The Red and the Black A New and Complete Translation by Lowell Bair by Stendhal (State of the nation)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (State of the nation)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (War and travel)
• CANDIDE by PHILIP VOLTAIRE with introduction by LITTELL (War and travel)
• Moby Dick, or The Whale (Laurel Edition) by Herman Melville (War and travel)
• Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• Crime and Punishment (Signet Classic)
• Steppenwolf by Herman HESSE

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• THE MYTH OF THE ETERNAL RETURN, or, COSMOS AND HISTORY by Mircea Eliade
• Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series) by Paul Tillich
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Heartland Prize

• American Memory, An by Eric Larsen (Fiction, 1988)

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

• Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson (1966)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Fatapoufs & Thinifers by Andre Maurois (1940)

Hugo

• Neuromancer by William Gibson (Novel, 1985)

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