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

Homer: The Iliad by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
Homer: The Odyssey by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus of Halicarnassus (2 - 5th century BCE)
Virgil: The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro (19 BCE)
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus (55 BCE)
Philo: Works by Philo of Alexandria (1st century)
The Nag Hammadi Library in English (2nd Century)
Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (167)
Augustine: Confessions by Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (400 AD)
Dante: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
Machiavelli: The Prince by Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli (1532)
Cervantes: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
Hobbes: Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
Spinoza: The Ethics Of Spinoza, The Road to Inner Freedom by Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1677)
Smith: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
Rousseau: Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1781)
Mill: On Liberty; Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (1859)
Tolstoy: War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1869)
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-1885)
Einstein: Relativity - The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Ovid: Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso (2006 Edition)
Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006 Edition)
Dickens: Our Mutual Friend by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006 Edition)
Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006 Edition)
Dickens: Hard Times by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006 Edition)
Rousseau: Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
Mann: Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family by Paul Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (2006/2008 Edition)
Balzac: Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (2006/2008 Edition)
Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black by Stendhal (2006/2008 Edition)
Flaubert: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
Hugo: Les Misérables by Victor-Marie Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
Mann: Doctor Faustus by Paul Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Hašek: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (2006/2008 Edition)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
Dostoyevsky: Demons by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Cervantes: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
Mann: The Magic Mountain by Paul Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
Dumas: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (père) (2006/2008 Edition)
Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
Golding: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008 Edition)
Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (père) (2006/2008 Edition)
Dickens: Oliver Twist by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (2006/2008 Edition)
Dickens: Bleak House by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
Dickens: David Copperfield by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
Dickens: Great Expectations by Charles John Huffam Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2006/2008 Edition)
Puzo: The Godfather by Mario Gianluigi Puzo (2006/2008 Edition)
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
Goncharov: Oblomov by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (2006/2008 Edition)
Turgenev: Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (2006/2008 Edition)
Lampedusa: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006/2008 Edition)
Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Tolstoy: War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
Hesse: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008 Edition)
Gogol: Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (2006/2008 Edition)
Zamyatin: We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (2006/2008 Edition)
Dostoyevsky: The Idiot by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
Joyce: Ulysses by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (2008 Edition)
Mann: Joseph and His Brothers by Paul Thomas Mann (2008 Edition)
Shikibu: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (2008 Edition)

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

Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (17)

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

Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (1)
Heinlein: Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein (21)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (34)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

Golding: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (68)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

Golding: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (70)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Homer: The Odyssey by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
Shakespeare: King Lear by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
Epictetus: Enchiridion by Epictetus (Non-fiction, 1999)
Hesse: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

Hesse: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
Heinlein: Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1997)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1997)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
Wouk: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951)

Bancarella

Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1958)

BBC's Big Read

Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 01)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
Dickens: Great Expectations by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
Tolstoy: War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
Dickens: David Copperfield by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Best loved novel, 2003, No 39)
Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (père) (Best loved novel, 2003, No 44)
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
Golding: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)
Joyce: Ulysses by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
Dickens: Bleak House by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
Puzo: The Godfather by Mario Gianluigi Puzo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 91)
Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 106)
Hugo: Les Misérables by Victor-Marie Hugo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 114)
Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 130)
Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Best loved novel, 2003, No 174)
Dickens: Oliver Twist by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 182)

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

Homer: The Iliad by Homer

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

Homer: The Odyssey by Homer

BILBY

Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Older Readers, 2002)

Borges' A Personal Library

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Cervantes: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Literary Classics)
Dante: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
Augustine: The City of God by Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Spiritual Classics)
Augustine: Confessions by Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Spiritual Classics)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Riasanovsky: A History of Russia by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky (Nonfiction, Gold, 1963)

Edgar Award Nominee

Doyle: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 3 by Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (Critical / Biographical Work, 2006)
Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Novel, 1984)

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

Lewis and Clark: The Journals by Meriwether Lewis (002)
The Bounty Mutiny (066)

First Prize, Athens Dionysia Drama Festival

Aeschylus: The Oresteia by Aeschylus (Tragedy, 458 BCE)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

Smith: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)
Machiavelli: The Prince by Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli (Office Politics)
Sun Tzu: The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Strategy)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (special recognition for a compilation, 2002)

Guardian 1000

Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Comedy)
Gogol: Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Comedy)
Goncharov: Oblomov by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (Comedy)
Cervantes: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Comedy)
Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Comedy)
Dreiser: An American Tragedy by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (Crime)
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Crime)
Puzo: The Godfather by Mario Gianluigi Puzo (Crime)
Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (père) (Crime)
Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Crime)
Balzac: Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Family and self)
Mann: Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family by Paul Thomas Mann (Family and self)
Turgenev: Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Family and self)
Joyce: Ulysses by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Family and self)
Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Family and self)
Dickens: Great Expectations by Charles John Huffam Dickens (Family and self)
Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (Love)
Flaubert: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Love)
Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Love)
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Love)
Turgenev: First Love; Spring Torrents; A Fire at Sea by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Love)
Golding: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Zamyatin: We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Mann: The Magic Mountain by Paul Thomas Mann (State of the nation)
Dickens: Little Dorrit by Charles John Huffam Dickens (State of the nation)
Dickens: Hard Times by Charles John Huffam Dickens (State of the nation)
Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (State of the nation)
Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (State of the nation)
Dickens: Bleak House by Charles John Huffam Dickens (State of the nation)
Dickens: Oliver Twist by Charles John Huffam Dickens (State of the nation)
Dickens: Dombey and Son by Charles John Huffam Dickens (State of the nation)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black by Stendhal (State of the nation)
Dostoyevsky: The Idiot by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (State of the nation)
Lampedusa: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (State of the nation)
Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles John Huffam Dickens (State of the nation)
Hugo: Les Misérables by Victor-Marie Hugo (State of the nation)
Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (War and travel)
Wouk: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (War and travel)
Tolstoy: War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (War and travel)
Hašek: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (War and travel)
Dumas: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (père) (War and travel)

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

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

Dickens: Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles John Huffam Dickens (3)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Mann: The Magic Mountain by Paul Thomas Mann (John E. Woods, 1996)

Hugo

Heinlein: Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein (Novel, 1960)
Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Novel, 1966)

Hugo Nominee

Herbert: Children of Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Novel, 1977)

International Fantasy Award

Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Fiction, 1957)

IPPY

Sun Tzu: The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Multicultural Non-Fiction, 2003)

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

Dickens: Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles John Huffam Dickens (1870)
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1886)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Joyce: Ulysses by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (30)
Dreiser: An American Tragedy by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (96)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

LOST Book Club

Meilleur Livre Étranger

Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1972)

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

Tuchman: The Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (16)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Joyce: Ulysses by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (The Board's List, 1)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (The Board's List, 13)
Dreiser: An American Tragedy by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (The Board's List, 16)
Farrell: Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy by James Thomas Farrell (The Board's List, 29)
Golding: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (The Board's List, 41)
Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (The Reader's List, 4)
Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (The Reader's List, 13)
Heinlein: Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein (The Reader's List, 62)

Médicis

Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Étranger, 1982)

National Book Award

Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Lawrence Shirer (Nonfiction, 1961)
Virgil: The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro (Translation, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

Wouk: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Fiction, 1952)
Homer: The Odyssey by Homer (Translation, 1968)
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus (Translation, 1969)

Nebula

Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Novel, 1965)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1983)
Keegan: The First World War by John Keegan (1999)

New York Times bestseller

Mann: Doctor Faustus by Paul Thomas Mann (Fiction, 1948)
Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Fiction, 1949)
Wouk: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Fiction, 1951)
Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Fiction, 1958)
Lampedusa: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Fiction, 1960)
Puzo: The Godfather by Mario Gianluigi Puzo (Fiction, 1969)
Herbert: God Emperor of Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Fiction, 1981)
Eco: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Fiction, 1983)
Herbert: Heretics of Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Fiction, 1984)
Herbert: Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Fiction, 1985)
Hourani: History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (Nonfiction, 1991)
Keegan: The First World War by John Keegan (Nonfiction, 1999)
Herbert: Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert (Paperback Fiction, 1984)

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