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Guardian 1000 (Comedy)

• Scoop by Waugh

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

• Odyssey of Homer by Richmond (Trans. ) Homer; Lattimore (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Iliad of Homer by Homer; Richard Lattimore; Leonard Baskin (illus.) (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The trial (The Modern library of the world's best books [318]) by Franz Kafka (1925)
• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (1949)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Second Edition by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Go down, Moses by William Faulkner (2006 Edition)
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• The Brothers Karamazov. A Modern Library Book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
• Northanger Abbey (2006 Edition)
• Auto-da-fé by Elias Canetti (2006 Edition)
• BURMESE DAYS by GEORGE ORWELL (2006 Edition)
• The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton (2006 Edition)
• The hamlet by William Faulkner (2006 Edition)
• Coming up for Air by George Orwell (2006 Edition)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last Chronicle of Barset (The World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope (2006/2008 Edition)
• The house of mirth by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Bonfire of The Vanities First Edition by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Honorary Consul: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2006/2008 Edition)
• The good soldier : a tale of passion by Ford Madox Ford (2006/2008 Edition)
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (2006/2008 Edition)
• The enigma of arrival : a novel by V. S. Naipaul (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mao II by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Phineas Finn: The Irish Member (Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope (2006/2008 Edition)
• The making of Americans; being a history of a family's progress by Gertrude Stein (2006/2008 Edition)
• Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,00 Words by Milorad Pavic (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT (2006/2008 Edition)
• RAGTIME. A Novel. by E.L. Doctorow (2006/2008 Edition)
• The man without qualities by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nostromo (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• Decline and fall by Evelyn Waugh (2006/2008 Edition)
• The autumn of the patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts by Leo Tolstoy, graf (2006/2008 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• The trial (The Modern library of the world's best books [318]) by Franz Kafka (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Plague by Camus by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Midnight's children : [a novel] by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
• Murphy by Samuel Beckett (2006/2008 Edition)
• The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
• The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
• The butcher boy by Pat McCabe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (2006/2008 Edition)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• David Copperfield (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Farewell to Arms [The Modern Library] by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Jane Austen (2006/2008 Edition)

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

• A child's garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Italian folktales by Italo Calvino (2009, Ages 5↑)
• The People Could Fly : American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton (2009, Ages 5↑)

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

• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (17)

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

• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (34)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt (Adult, 1997)

ABA Silver Gavel Certificate of Merit

• Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story : statesman of the Old Republic by R. Kent Newmyer (1986)

The Age Book of the Year Award

• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (Fiction, 1997)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (69)
• The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (83)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (71)
• The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (84)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1967)
• Coming of age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1969)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin)) by Juan Williams (1987)
• We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi by Seth Cagin (1988)
• This boy's life : a memoir by Tobias Wolff (1990)
• The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien (1991)
• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf (2001)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Odyssey of Homer by Richmond (Trans. ) Homer; Lattimore (Poetry, 1999)
• Coming of age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Biography, 1999)
• Sound-Shadows of the New World by Ved Mehta (Biography, 1999)
• Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt (Biography, 1999)
• This boy's life : a memoir by Tobias Wolff (Biography, 1999)
• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin)) by Juan Williams (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Mismeasure of Man. by Stephen Jay. GOULD (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (Fiction, 1999)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (Fiction, 1999)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)
• A Farewell to Arms [The Modern Library] by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien (Fiction, 1999)
• An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by William Doyle (Social Sciences, 2004)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien (War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• The discovery of the asylum; social order and disorder in the new republic by David J. Rothman (1971)

Alex Award

• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf (2000)
• An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by William Doyle (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• Cities on a Hill by Frances FitzGerald (American Studies, 1987)
• The Bonfire of The Vanities First Edition by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (Biography/Autobiography, 1989)
• Where I'm calling from : new and selected stories by Raymond Carver (Fiction, 1989)
• This boy's life : a memoir by Tobias Wolff (Biography/Autobiography, 1990)
• A thousand acres by Jane Smiley (Fiction, 1992)
• Up in the old hotel and other stories by Joseph Mitchell (American Arts & Letters, 1993)
• The oracle at Stoneleigh Court : stories by Peter Hillsman Taylor (Fiction, 1994)
• Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (Chapel Hill) by John Egerton (American Studies, 1995)

American Book Award

• Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians by Peter Guralnick (1983)
• The unquiet earth : a novel by Denise Giardina (1993)
• Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (Chapel Hill) by John Egerton (1995)
• Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations by Brian Ward (1999)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• The People Could Fly : American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton (2005)

Andre Simon Award

• The classic Italian cook book: the art of Italian cooking and the Italian art of eating by Marcella Hazan (1980)
• On food and cooking : the science and lore of the kitchen by Harold McGee (1986)
• The Oxford companion to food by Alan Davidson (1999)

Anthony Award Nominee

• Gaudy Night by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Novel Of The Century, 2000)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The horse's mouth by Joyce Cary (1944)
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (1945)
• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (1949)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
• The mansion by William Faulkner (1959)
• Sophie's choice by William Styron (1979)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky (Gold medal, 2002)

Bancroft Prize

• Ordeal Of The Union Volume 2 by ALLAN NEVINS (1948)
• Ordeal of the Union, Vol. I: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852 by Allan Nevins (1948)
• Origins of the new South, 1877-1913 by C. Vann Woodward (1952)
• White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (1969)
• Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (Jules and Frances Landry Award) by Dan T. Carter (1970)
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese (1975)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan (1994)
• Local people : the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer (1995)
• The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln by Wilentz Sean (2006)

BBC's Big Read

• Nineteen eighty-four,: A novel by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
• David Copperfield (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 34)
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (Best loved novel, 2003, No 45)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 46)
• Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts by Leo Tolstoy, graf (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
• Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)
• Midnight's children : [a novel] by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)
• Heidi: Childrens Classics by Johanna Spyri (Best loved novel, 2003, No 189)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Best loved novel, 2003, No 191)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln : a novel by Gore Vidal (1985)

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

• The Iliad of Homer by Homer; Richard Lattimore; Leonard Baskin (illus.)

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

• Odyssey of Homer by Richmond (Trans. ) Homer; Lattimore

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Plainsong by Kent Haruf ( Adult Honor Book, 2000)
• The orchid thief by Susan Orlean (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)
• Eventide : a novel by Kent Haruf ( Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2005)
• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2006)

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)

Booker Prize Longlist

• Half a life by V. S. Naipaul (2001)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• The butcher boy by Pat McCabe (1992)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Bram Stoker Award Nominee

• The butcher boy by Pat McCabe (Novel, 1994)

British Book Award

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel (Book of the Year, 1997)

British Guild of Food Writers

• Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery by Madhur Jaffrey (Cookery Book of the Year, 1999)
• The man who ate everything : and other gastronomic feats, disputes, and pleasurable pursuits by Jeffrey Steingarten (Food Book of the Year, 1999)
• The Oxford companion to food by Alan Davidson (Food Book of the Year, 2000)

C. Wright Mills Award

• Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam (1989)
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (2006)

CAA Award

• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Fiction, 1994)

Canada Reads Nominee

• The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro (2004)

Carl Sandburg Award

• Master of the Senate : The Years of Lyndon Johnson : Audiocassettes by Robert A. Caro (2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (Literary Classics)

CBA Libris Award

• The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro (Fiction Book of the Year, 1999)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century by Witold Rybczynski (2000)
• The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King (2007)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Heaven below : early Pentecostals and American culture by Grant Wacker (History/Biography, 2002)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (Best Book, 1998)
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 1994)

Coretta Scott King Award

• The People Could Fly : American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton (Author, 1986)

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