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Summary: 50 Awards.

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

Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais (1534)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (2006 Edition)
Vanishing Point: A Novel by David Markson (2006 Edition)
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais (2006/2008 Edition)
The Plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2006/2008 Edition)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008 Edition)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008 edition)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008 Edition)

BBC's Big Read

Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)
Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)

Beyond Margins Award

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Best Book, Africa, 2007)

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

The Plague by Albert Camus

English-Speaking Union Award

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Guardian 1000

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Crime)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (State of the nation)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (State of the nation)
The Plague by Albert Camus (State of the nation)
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (War and travel)
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

The Plague by Albert Camus

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Anthea Bell, 2002)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (John E. Woods, 1996)

Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2002)

International IMPAC Dublin

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

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1981)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction, 2006)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (41)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1988)
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (Fiction, 1998)

Meilleur Livre Étranger

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (2001)
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (2002)

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

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger (37)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (The Board's List, 90)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Semifinalist, 2007)

Médicis

Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Étranger, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Fiction, 2001)
2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (Fiction, 2008)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1981)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1988)
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2004)
2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008)

New York Times bestseller

The Plague by Albert Camus (Fiction, 1948)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1988)
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (General, 1947)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction & Poetry, 2006)
2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (Fiction & Poetry, 2008)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (2009, No. 22)

Nobel Prize for Literature 1929

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Nobel Prize for Literature.

BACCHAE OF EURIPIDES. A communion rite by Wole Soyinka

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

NPR's Best Foreign Fiction

2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008)

O. Henry Prize

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2003)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2003)
The Plague by Albert Camus (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2007)

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (Essay, 1999)
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Novel, 2002)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (100)

Salon Book Award

Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2004)
2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008)
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Fiction, 2001)

SWR-Bestenliste

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (Fiction (1), 2008)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

University of Rochester Best Translated Book of 2008 longlist

2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

Waterstones Books of the Century

Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie (1997, No 25)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1997, No 43)

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