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"Melbourne Prize for Literature 2006 - Short-listed Best Writing Award" "FAW Award 2006 - Commended Christina Stead Award "

• Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi

100 Books in Literary Oregon, 1800-2000

• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

100 Essential New England Books

• Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe, #1)
• The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath (Boston Globe, #4)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Boston Globe, #9)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Boston Globe, #16)
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Boston Globe, #18)
• The Scarlet Letter (Classics S.) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston Globe, #19)
• Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout (Boston Globe, #26)
• She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb (Boston Globe, #28)
• Three Junes by Julia Glass (Boston Globe, #31)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Boston Globe, #34)
• Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (Boston Globe, #38)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Boston Globe, #43)
• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) by Andre Dubus III (Boston Globe, #48)
• Couples by John Updike (Boston Globe, #60)
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Boston Globe, #68)
• Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen (Boston Globe, #75)
• The Emperor's Children (Vintage) by Claire Messud (Boston Globe, #78)
• Secret History by Donna Tartt (Boston Globe, #81)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Boston Globe, #87)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain (Boston Globe, #91)
• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (Boston Globe,#2)

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

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Annals (Dover Value Editions) by Tacitus (120 AD)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by St. Augustine (400 AD)
• The Divine Comedy (Vintage) by Dante (1321)
• Don Quixote (Unabridged Version of Walter Starkie Translation) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan (1684)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (1759)
• The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library) by Adam Smith (1776)
• The Confessions (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1787)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
• The trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
• The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek (1943)
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Robinson Crusoe (Wordsworth Classics) by Daniel Defoe
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Billy Bathgate : a novel by E. L. Doctorow (2006 Edition)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• The Body Artist: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2006 Edition)
• Fury: A Novel (Modern Library) by Salman Rushdie (2006 Edition)
• Green Man by Kingsley Amis (2006 Edition)
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie (2006 Edition)
• Hard Times (Konemann Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• House of Leaves: The Remastered, Full-Color Edition by Mark Z. Danielewski (2006 Edition)
• Jazz (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• The Karamazov Brothers (The World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006 Edition)
• Kidnapped (Bantam Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006 Edition)
• La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (2006 Edition)
• Lord Jim (Complete and Unabridged) by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (2006 Edition)
• Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006 Edition)
• Never Let Me Go (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006 Edition)
• The Collector (Back Bay Books) by John Fowles (2006 edition)
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2006 Edition)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (2006 Edition)
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville (2006 edition)
• The Names (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo (2006 edition)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan (2006 edition)
• The Return of the Native (Signet Classic) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• Roxana: Or the Fortunate Mistress (The Everyman Library) by Daniel Defoe (2006 Edition)
• Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006 Edition)
• Sula by Toni Morrison (2006 Edition)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• TRAINSPOTTING by IRVINE WELSH (2006 Edition)
• TROPIC OF CAPRICORN by HENRY MILLER (2006 Edition)
• Virgin Soil (New York Review Books Classics) by Ivan Turgenev (2006 Edition)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre by Octavio Paz (2006/2008/2008 Edition)
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Adventures of huckleberry finn, the by Mark Twain (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (Tor Classics) by Jules Verne (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Arrow of God: A Novel of an Old Nigeria and a New Colonialism (Anchor Book, A698) by Chinua Achebe (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions) by Kate Chopin (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Babbit by Sinclair Lewis (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Ben-Hur;: A tale of the Christ, (Bantam pathfinder editions) (Bantam pathfinder editions) by Lew Wallace (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Brave new world by Aldous Huxley (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Cement Garden (Vintage International) by Ian McEwan (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Confessions (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Contact by Carl Sagan (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Barnes and Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (The Scribner Library) by Alan Paton (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Doctor Zhivago (Modern Library Giants, 86.1) by Boris Pasternak (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Don Quixote (Unabridged Version of Walter Starkie Translation) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Dracula (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Bram Stoker (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Erewhon (Dover Thrift Editions) by Samuel Butler (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Fateless by Imre Kertesz (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Felicia's Journey by William Trevor (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Library) by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Germinal (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Godfather (Signet) by Mario Puzo (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Idiot (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Independent People by Halldor Laxness (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics) by H.G. Wells (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Ivanhoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Walter Scott (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics) by Herman Melville (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Monk (Modern Library Classics) by Matthew Lewis (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Nana (Airmont)(Nrt) by Emile Zola (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Oblomov (Classics) by Ivan Goncharov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Of Mice and Men by Jon Steinbeck (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Books) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Plague by Albert Camus (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Possessed (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, K. (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Rob Roy by Walter Scott (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter (Classics S.) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Sea by John Banville (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Secret Agent (Signet Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Secret History by Donna Tartt (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Tender Is the Night (Reissue) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics) by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Time Machine (Bantam Classics) by H.G. Wells (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Tom Jones (Everyman's Library classics) by Henry Fielding (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Treasure Island (Signet Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The trial by Franz Kafka (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• U.S.A. (Twentieth Century Classics S.) by John Dos Passos (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) by William Beckford (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The War of the Worlds (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by H.G. Wells (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Waterland by Graham Swift (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel by Jean Rhys (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• The Woman in White (musical tie-in) (Penguin Summer Classics) by Wilkie Collins (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (2006/2012 Edition)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2008 Edition)
• Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light: A Novel by Ivan Klima (2008, 2010 Edition)
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008/2010 Edition)
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (2008/2010 Edition)
• Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (2008/2010 Edition)
• Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist (2008/2010 Edition)
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (2008/2010 Edition)
• The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (2008/2010 Edition)
• Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club) by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2008/2010 Edition)
• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2008/2010 Edition)
• A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Lermontov (2008/2010 Edition)
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (2008/2010 Edition)
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke (2008/2010 Edition)
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (2008/2010 Edition)
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008/2010 Edition)
• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (2008/2010 Edition)
• Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (2008/2010 Edition)
• Untouchable (Penguin Classics) by Mulk Raj Anand (2008/2010 Edition)
• Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre (2008/2010 Edition)
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (2008/2010 Edition)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2010 Edition)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (2010 Edition)
• The Children's Book (Vintage International) by A.S. Byatt (2010 Edition)
• The Gathering (Man Booker Prize) by Anne Enright (2010 Edition)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (2010 Edition)
• The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga (2010 Edition)

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

• Grimms Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm (2009, Ages 5↑)
• The Jungle Books (Signet classics) by Rudyard Kipling (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (2009, Ages 5↑)
• The Prince and the Pauper (Works of Mark Twain) by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Treasure Island (Signet Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Adventures of huckleberry finn, the by Mark Twain (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Wind in the Willows: Complete Edition by Kenneth Grahame (2009, Ages 8↑)
• The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Scarlet Letter (Classics S.) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009, Ages 12↑)
• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (2009, Ages 12↑)
• 20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (2009, Ages 12↑)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (Tor Classics) by Jules Verne (2009, Ages 12↑)
• Kidnapped (Bantam Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (2009, Ages 12↑)
• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: Newly Re-told Out of the Old Romances (Puffin Books) by Roger Lancelyn Green (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, Ages 12↑)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2009, Ages 12↑)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Dark Is Rising (Dark Is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland (2009, Ages 12↑)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2009, Ages 12↑)

125 Great Southern Books

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy
• The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions) by Kate Chopin
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• DELIVERANCE (BLOOMSBURY FILM CLASSICS S.) by JAMES DICKEY
• Ellen Foster: movie tie-in edition by Kaye Gibbons
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers
• Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
• Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
• Suttree by Cormac Mccarthy
• You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (6)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (7)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (8)
• All the King's Men [Movie Tie-In Edition] by Robert Penn Warren (11)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (20)
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (23)

25 Books Every Christian Should Read: A Guide to the Essential Spiritual Classics

• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by St. Augustine
• The Divine Comedy (Vintage) by Dante
• The Karamazov Brothers (The World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan

501 Must-Read Books

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Children's Fiction)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Children's Fiction)
• Grimms Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm (Children's Fiction)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Children's Fiction)
• Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library) by Louisa May Alcott (Children's Fiction)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan (Children's Fiction)
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Children's Fiction)
• Treasure Island (Signet Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Children's Fiction)
• Wind in the Willows: Complete Edition by Kenneth Grahame (Children's Fiction)
• Adventures of huckleberry finn, the by Mark Twain (Classic Fiction)
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire (Classic Fiction)
• Crime and Punishment (Barnes and Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Classic Fiction)
• Dracula (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Bram Stoker (Classic Fiction)
• Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley (Classic Fiction)
• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift (Classic Fiction)
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Classic Fiction)
• Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (Classic Fiction)
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (Classic Fiction)
• Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (Classic Fiction)
• Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo (Classic Fiction)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Classic Fiction)
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by G. K. Chesterton (Classic Fiction)
• Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics) by Herman Melville (Classic Fiction)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde (Classic Fiction)
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (Classic Fiction)
• The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene (Classic Fiction)
• Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal (Classic Fiction)
• The Scarlet Letter (Classics S.) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Classic Fiction)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Classic Fiction)
• The Tom Jones (Everyman's Library classics) by Henry Fielding (Classic Fiction)
• Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (Classic Fiction)
• Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) by William Beckford (Classic Fiction)
• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Classic Fiction)
• The Annals (Dover Value Editions) by Tacitus (History)
• Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson (History)
• Distant Mirror by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (History)
• The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor (History)
• The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes (History)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (History)
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Memoirs)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by St. Augustine (Memoirs)
• The Confessions (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Memoirs)
• Father and Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Gosse (Memoirs)
• Paula by Isabel Allende (Memoirs)
• Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov (Memoirs)
• The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Anne Tyler (Modern Fiction)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Modern Fiction)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Modern Fiction)
• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (Modern Fiction)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Modern Fiction)
• Couples by John Updike (Modern Fiction)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Modern Fiction)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Modern Fiction)
• Felicia's Journey by William Trevor (Modern Fiction)
• A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry (Modern Fiction)
• The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck (Modern Fiction)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers (Modern Fiction)
• A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes (Modern Fiction)
• A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (Modern Fiction)
• The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth (Modern Fiction)
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (Modern Fiction)
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer (Modern Fiction)
• The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (Modern Fiction)
• The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Modern Fiction)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Modern Fiction)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Modern Fiction)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Modern Fiction)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (Modern Fiction)
• Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Modern Fiction)
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (Modern Fiction)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Modern Fiction)
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Modern Fiction)
• Pedro Paramo (Five Star) by Juan Rulfo (Modern Fiction)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (Modern Fiction)
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (Modern Fiction)
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Modern Fiction)
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Modern Fiction)
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (Modern Fiction)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Modern Fiction)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (Modern Fiction)
• The trial by Franz Kafka (Modern Fiction)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (Modern Fiction)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Modern Fiction)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (Modern Fiction)
• Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Classics) by Sherwood Anderson (Modern Fiction)
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (Science Fiction)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (Science Fiction)
• Brave new world by Aldous Huxley (Science Fiction)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Science Fiction)
• Dune by Frank Herbert (Science Fiction)
• Erewhon (Dover Thrift Editions) by Samuel Butler (Science Fiction)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Science Fiction)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics) by H.G. Wells (Science Fiction)
• Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, Book One) by C.S. Lewis (Science Fiction)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Science Fiction)
• The Woman in White (musical tie-in) (Penguin Summer Classics) by Wilkie Collins (Thrillers)
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (Travel Writing)

61 Essential Postmodern Reads

• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (3)
• 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano (11)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (13)
• Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Julio Cortazar (16)
• House of Leaves: The Remastered, Full-Color Edition by Mark Z. Danielewski (19)
• Great Jones Street (Picador Books) by Don DeLillo (20)
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco (24)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (25)
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (29)
• The Scarlet Letter (Classics S.) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (33)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (44)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (45)
• The Counterlife by Philip Roth (50)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (58)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (59)

AAR Annual Reader Poll

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ([HM] Best Alternate Reality, 2004)
• Drums of Autumn (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (Favorite "Other" Romance, 1998)
• The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon (Favorite American Historical - Honorable Mention, 2002)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Drums of Autumn (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon ([Previously 1998-56] Most Recent Rank - 2000, 80)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Previously 1998-56 Most Recent Rank - 2000, 50)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Most Recent Rank - 2004, 72)
• Voyager (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon ([Previously 1998-56 / 2000-43] Most Recent Rank - 2007, 79)
• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, Book 2) by Diana Gabaldon ([Previously 1998-56 / 2000-28] Most Recent Rank - 2007, 69)
• Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) by Charlotte Bronte ([Previously 2004-87] Most Recent Rank - 2007, 52)
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon ([Previously 1998-#3 / 2000-#2 / 2004-#7] Most Recent Rank - 2007, #4)

Abraham Lincoln Award Winner

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2011)

Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominee

• The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (2005)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2006)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2006)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2006)
• The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon (2007)
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (2007)
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (2009)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2011)
• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (2012)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2013)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1939)
• Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis (1960)
• The Tom Jones (Everyman's Library classics) by Henry Fielding (1963)
• Doctor Zhivago (Modern Library Giants, 86.1) by Boris Pasternak (1965)
• The Godfather (Signet) by Mario Puzo (1974)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1975)
• Terms Of Endearment by Larry McMurtry (1983)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1993)
• FORREST GUMP (Movie Tie in) by Winston Groom (1994)
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving (1999)
• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar (2001)
• The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman (2002)
• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2003)
• No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy (2007)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee

• Captain Blood (Gateway Movie Classics) by Rafael Sabatini (1935)
• Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1945)
• All the King's Men [Movie Tie-In Edition] by Robert Penn Warren (1949)
• Giant (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber (1956)
• Ben-Hur;: A tale of the Christ, (Bantam pathfinder editions) (Bantam pathfinder editions) by Lew Wallace (1959)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (1964)
• The Collector (Back Bay Books) by John Fowles (1965)
• Ulysses by James Joyce (1967)
• Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (1968)
• Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International) by Philip Roth (1969)
• The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry (1971)
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1981)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1985)
• The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Anne Tyler (1988)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1988)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1996)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1996)
• TRAINSPOTTING by IRVINE WELSH (1996)
• Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous (1998)
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris (2000)
• Wonder Boys: A Novel by Michael Chabon (2000)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (2001)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2002)
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2003)
• Oil! by Upton Sinclair (2007)
• True Grit by Charles Portis (2010)

Adelaide Festival Literary Awards

• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Fiction, 1990)
• True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel by Peter Carey (Fiction, 2002)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Arrow of God: A Novel of an Old Nigeria and a New Colonialism (Anchor Book, A698) by Chinua Achebe (creative writing)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• The Book of Evidence by John Banville (1989)
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt (1995)

The Age Book of the Year Award

• True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel by Peter Carey (Fiction, 2001)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Adventures of huckleberry finn, the by Mark Twain (5)
• Of Mice and Men by Jon Steinbeck (6)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (17)
• The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (34)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (37)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (40)
• Flowers for Algernon (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Keyes (43)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (45)
• Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) by J.K. Rowling (48)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (53)
• Brave new world by Aldous Huxley (54)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (67)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (68)
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (73)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (84)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (91)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Adventures of huckleberry finn, the by Mark Twain (5)
• Of Mice and Men by Jon Steinbeck (6)
• Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) by J.K. Rowling (7)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (18)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (37)
• The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (39)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (41)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (42)
• Flowers for Algernon (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Keyes (47)
• Brave new world by Aldous Huxley (52)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (60)
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (67)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (69)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (70)
• Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (85)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (91)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok (1967)
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1967)
• True Grit by Charles Portis (1968)
• The Promise by Chaim Potok (1969)
• The Crystal Cave (The Arthurian Saga, Book 1) by Mary Stewart (1970)
• The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath (1971)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2) by Mary Stewart (1973)
• Alive by Piers Paul Read (1974)
• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (1977)
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel (1980)
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (1985)
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
• Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan (1986)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
• Ellen Foster: movie tie-in edition by Kaye Gibbons (1987)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1990)
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (1992)
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1992)
• The Pelican Brief by John Grisham (1993)
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (1994)
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1995)
• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston (1996)
• Into the Wild 1997 Anchor paperback by Jon Krakauer by Jon Krakauer (1997)
• The Lost Years of Merlin (Lost Years of Merlin, Bk. 1) by T. A. Barron (1997)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• October Sky: A Memoir by Homer Hickam (2000)
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman (2000)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2001)
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf (2001)
• Timeline by Michael Crichton (2001)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (2003)
• The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (2003)
• Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo (2004)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2004)
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2006)
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (2006)
• Black Swan Green -- 2007 publication by David Mitchell (2007)
• The Host: A Novel by Stephenie Meyer (2009)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2009)
• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (2010)

ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens

• The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey (Nonfiction, 2009)

ALA Notable Book

• Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jonathan Franzen (2011)
• Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue (2011)
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel by David Mitchell (2011)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (1998)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (1998)
• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar (1999)
• Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore (1999)
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (1999)
• The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett (1999)
• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (2000)
• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) by Andre Dubus III (2000)
• A Star Called Henry (Doyle, Roddy, Last Roundup, V. 1.) by Roddy Doyle (2000)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)
• Anil's Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (2001)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2001)
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (2001)
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (2001)
• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun (2001)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2001)
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (2001)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2002)
• Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (2002)
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2002)
• True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel by Peter Carey (2002)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2003)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z. Z Packer (2004)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (2004)
• Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen (2004)
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (2004)
• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authori by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (2005)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2005)
• I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek (2005)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (2005)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2006)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (2006)
• The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea (2006)
• Never Let Me Go (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)
• No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006)
• Black Swan Green -- 2007 publication by David Mitchell (2007)
• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
• Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2008)
• Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout (2009)
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (2009)
• Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010)
• The Year of the Flood: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (2010)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland (2002)
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (2004)
• Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (2006)
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (2006)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2009)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Drama, 1999)
• Paula by Isabel Allende (Biography, 1999)
• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions) by Kate Chopin (Fiction, 1999)
• Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (Fiction, 1999)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)
• Brave new world by Aldous Huxley (Fiction, 1999)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Fiction, 1999)
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Barnes and Noble Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Ellen Foster: movie tie-in edition by Kaye Gibbons (Fiction, 1999)
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Fiction, 1999)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (Fiction, 1999)
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck (Fiction, 1999)
• Grendel by John Gardner (Fiction, 1999)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1999)
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Fiction, 1999)
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (Fiction, 1999)
• Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics) by Kamala Markandaya (Fiction, 1999)
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (Fiction, 1999)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Fiction, 1999)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Fiction, 1999)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Social Sciences, 2004)
• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan (Social Sciences, 2004)
• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston (Science & Technology, 2004)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold (Literature & Language Arts, 2004)
• Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger (Humanities, 2004)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Humanities, 2004)
• Distant Mirror by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (History, 2004)
• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey (History, 2004)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Arts & Humanities, 2009)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (History & Cultures, 2009)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (History & Cultures, 2009)
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (History & Cultures, 2009)
• What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers (History & Cultures, 2009)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Never Let Me Go (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ( Multicultural Fiction, 1997)
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (The Scribner Library) by Alan Paton (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Books for the Soul, 1997)
• Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan ( Facing Nature Head On, 1998)
• Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger (Good Sports, 1999)
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon ( Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• Centennial by James A. Michener ( Western, 2001)
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ( Western, 2001)
• The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman ( Humor, 2001)
• Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Tales of the Cities, 2002)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)
• The Lost Years of Merlin (Lost Years of Merlin, Bk. 1) by T. A. Barron ( Flights of Fantasy: Beyond Harry and Frodo, 2003)
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman ( Flights of Fantasy: Beyond Harry and Frodo, 2003)
• Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein ( Simply Science Fiction, 2004)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore ( If It Weren’t For Them: Heroes, 2004)
• The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (All Kinds of Creepy, 2005)
• The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lector) by Thomas Harris ( All Kinds of Creepy, 2005)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (What Ails you?, 2006)
• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston ( What Ails you?, 2006)
• Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold (2007)
• Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore (What’s so Funny?, 2007)
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (What’s so Funny?, 2007)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Religion: Relationship with the Divine, 2007)
• The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)
• Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (I'm Not Making This Up, 2007)
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Magic in the Real World, 2008)
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (Magic in the Real World, 2008)
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman ( Magic in the Real World, 2008)
• The Demonata #1: Lord Loss: Book 1 in the Demonata series by Darren Shan (Death and Dying, 2009)
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman ( Twists on the Tale, 2010)
• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor ( Twists on the Tale, 2010)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen ( Twists on the Tale, 2010)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Falling Up by Shel Silverstein (1997)
• Dracula (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Bram Stoker (1998)
• The Demonata #1: Lord Loss: Book 1 in the Demonata series by Darren Shan (2006)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2009)
• The Manga Cookbook by The Manga University Culinary Institute (2009)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - Top Ten

• Falling Up by Shel Silverstein (1997)
• The Demonata #1: Lord Loss: Book 1 in the Demonata series by Darren Shan (2006)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1999)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (Breon Mitchell, 2009)

Alex Award

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears (2000)
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf (2000)
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman (2000)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2001)
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (2002)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2004)
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z. Z Packer (2004)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2004)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2004)
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2006)
• Never Let Me Go (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006)
• Black Swan Green -- 2007 publication by David Mitchell (2007)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2007)
• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman (2010)
• Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue (2011)

All Iowa Reads

• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (2003)
• The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (2005)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

ALS Gold Medal

• Capricornia by Xavier  Herbert (1939)

Amazon's Best Books of the Month

• The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle) by China Mieville (June 2009)
• Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (P.S.) by Norman Ollestad (June 2009)
• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman (August 2009)
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (September 2009)
• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (October 2009)
• Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller (November 2009)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (#3)
• Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (P.S.) by Norman Ollestad (#6)
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (#12)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (#19)
• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan (#29)
• The Year of the Flood: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (#38)
• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (#42)
• Tinkers by Paul Harding (#44)
• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman (#52)
• Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman (#61)
• Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller (#80)
• The Children's Book (Vintage International) by A.S. Byatt (#88)

Amazon.com Best Books

• The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle) by China Mieville (8, 2009)
• The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (2000)
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving (2000)
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (2000)
• Gap Creek : The Story Of A Marriage (Oprah's Book Club) by Robert Morgan (2000)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000)
• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) by Andre Dubus III (2000)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)
• Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
• Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2001)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2001)
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (2001)
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)
• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (2002)
• Baudolino by Umberto Eco (2002)
• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (2002)
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)
• The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (2002)
• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
• Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (2002)
• Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant (2002)
• What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained by Robert L. Wolke (2002)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) by Erik Larson (2003)
• Ilium by Dan Simmons (2003)
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2003)
• Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen (2003)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (2003)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2003)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
• Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre (2003)
• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authori by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (2004)
• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke (2004)
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (2004)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart (2004)
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (2004)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2004)
• The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell (2004)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)
• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs (2004)
• The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (2004)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (2004)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2005)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)
• God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus) by Jim Wallis (2005)
• The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (2005)
• The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan (An Amazon Best Book, 2007)
• The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer (Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Anne Tyler (Fiction, 1986)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (Biography/Autobiography, 1991)
• In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike (Fiction, 1997)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1998)
• The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw (Biography/Autobiography, 2001)
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Fiction, 2002)
• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction, 2003)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

Amelia Bloomer List

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2009)

American Book Award

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1985)
• Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) by James Welch (1987)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (1998)
• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke (2005)

American Booksellers Book of the Year

• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (Adult, 1993)
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (Adult, 1994)
• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (Adult, 1996)

American Christian Fiction Writers: Book of the Year

• DragonKnight (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 3) by Donita K. Paul

American Library Association Notable Book

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984)
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy (1993)

Andre Norton Award Finalist

• Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) by Suzanne Collins (2010)

Andre Simon Award

• The Classic Italian Cook Book:The art of Italian cooking and the Italian art of eating by Marcella Hazan (1980)
• Thai Food by David Thompson (2002)
• Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon by Claudia Roden (2005)
• Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own by Andrew Whitley (2006)

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction

• Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries) by Karen Russell (Finalist, 2012)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• Cry, the Beloved Country (The Scribner Library) by Alan Paton (1949)
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (1962)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)
• The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones (2004)
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2006)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2008)

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