Awards in your library

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100 Essential New England Books

• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

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

• The I Ching or Book of Changes by C.F. Baynes (1 - 14th century BCE)
• JPS TANAKH/ The Jewish Bible by Jewish Publication Society (13th–4th century BCE)
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The History by Herodotus (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Republic of Plato by Plato (380 BCE)
• The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
• Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Burke (1790)
• The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx (1848)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006 Edition)
• Emile: Or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006/2008 Edition)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Poetry, 1999)
• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, A by Stephen Hawking (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (Fiction, 1999)
• John Adams by David McCullough (History, 2004)
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (History, 2004)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Literature & Language Arts, 2009)

Ambassador Book Award

• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography, 1998)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (1957)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek (Honorable mention, 2008)

Arthur Ross Book Award Shortlist

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (2007)

BBC's Big Read

• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54)
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)

Benjamin Franklin Award

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Audiobook - Adult Nonfiction, 2005)

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

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer

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

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Virgil
• The History by Herodotus

Brothers Judd Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud

C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit

• Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People by Josiah Ober (1989)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Catechism of the Catholic Church by U.S. Catholic Church (Catholicism Explained/Theology)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• John Adams by David McCullough (2001)

Edgar Award

• Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (Fact Crime, 2008)

Fomentor Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Truman by David McCullough (1993)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (2001)
• John Adams by David McCullough (2002)
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (honorable mention, 2004)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (honorable mention, 2005)

George Washington Book Prize

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2005)

Guardian 1000

• The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (Family and self)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (Family and self)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (Love)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

• BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, A by Stephen Hawking

International Literary Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (2007)

James Henry Breasted Prize

• The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece: Revised and Updated Edition by Kurt Raaflaub (2004)

James L. Dow Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction, 2006)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (79)

Lincoln Prize

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Truman by David McCullough (1992)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (2007)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• The Missing Peace : The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross (2004)
• Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy by Stephen M. Walt (2006)
• Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Vintage) by Robert Kagan (2007)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (Current Interest, 1987)
• Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger (Current Interest, 1994)
• The New Chinese Empire: And What it Means for the United States by Ross Terrill (Current Interest, 2003)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (History, 2006)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (Science and Technology, 1997)

LOST Book Club

• BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, A by Stephen Hawking

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (The Board's List, 65)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (The Reader's List, 1)

National Book Award

• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (Fiction, 1965)
• The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (Fiction, 1967)
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction, 1997)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science (Hardcover), 1980)
• The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Virgil (Translation, 1973)

National Book Award finalist

• Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (Fiction, 1957)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1958)
• The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (Fiction, 1958)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett (Nonfiction, 1995)
• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Indexed by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Nonfiction, 2004)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (Nonfiction, 2006)
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (Translation, 1968)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Biography, 2004)
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography/Autobiography, 1997)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Nonfiction, 1979)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (General Nonfiction, 1997)

National Jewish Book Award

• The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (1958)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987)
• BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, A by Stephen Hawking (1988)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)
• Overcoming Law by Richard A. Posner (1995)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2004)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (2006)

New York Times bestseller

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Fiction, 1957)
• Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (Fiction, 1964)
• The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud (Fiction, 1966)
• Ravelstein (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow (Fiction, 2000)
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (General, 1945)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Nonfiction, 1988)
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book) by Henry Kissinger (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (Nonfiction, 1995)
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction, 2000)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 2001)
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction, 2004)
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama (Non-Fiction, 2006)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer (2009, No. 8)
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (2009, No. 26)
• The History by Herodotus (2009, No. 28)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (2009, No. 31)
• Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes (2009, No. 33)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2009, No. 42)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (2009, No. 48)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
• The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Virgil
• The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright (2007)

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