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

• The History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5th century BCE)
• The Histories by Aubrey (translator) Herodotus; De Selincourt (2 - 5th century BCE)
• The Aeneid (Highbridge Classics) (Audio CD) by Virgil (19 BCE)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine of Hippo (400 AD)
• The Koran (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (7th century)
• The Divine Comedy; The Carlyle - Wicksteed Translation, Complete and Unabridged (Modern Library Editions ML 208) by Dante Alighieri (1321)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615)
• Pensees by Pascal Blaise (1670)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Burke (1790)
• On Liberty (Penguin Classics) by John Stuart Mill (1859)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
• Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch fur Alle und Keinen by Friedrich Nietzche (1883-1885)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid (2006 Edition)
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte (2006 Edition)
• Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006 Edition)
• Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad (2006 Edition)
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (2006 Edition)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre (2006 Edition)
• Shirley (Gift Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (2006 Edition)
• The Return of the Native (His the New Wessex Edition) by Thomas Hardy (2006 Edition)
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals (Crime Club S.) by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Red and the Black by Marie Henri de Stendhal and translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff Beyle (2006/2008 Edition)
• Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy by illustrated with water-colors by Sylvain Sauvage Sterne, How this book came to (2006/2008 Edition)
• Buddenbrooks: Verfall Einer Familier by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• Die Leiden des jungen Werthers : [sound recording] Text und Kommentar, Lebenskunst - Leben und Werk von Johann Wolfgang by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rebecca (2006/2008 Edition)
• Les Miserables (Les Pleiades) by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Immoralist by Andre Gide (2006/2008 Edition)
• Smiley's People by John Le Carre (2006/2008 Edition)
• Joseph Andrews (Signet Classics) by Henry Fielding (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (2006/2008 Edition)
• Manon Des Sources (L'Eau Des Collines) by Marcel Pagnol (2006/2008 Edition)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (2006/2008 Edition)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008 Edition)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nostromo (Signet Books) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Stechlin by Theodor Fontane (2006/2008 Edition)
• Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008 Edition)
• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Time Machine: 2 by H.G. Wells (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre (2006/2008 Edition)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Tess of the d' Urbervilles (2006/2008 Edition)
• La peste (Folio Series) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (2006/2008 Edition)
• The 39 Steps by John Buchan (2006/2008 Edition)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008 Edition)
• Jane Eyre (Classics S) by Charlotte Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ben-Hur (Collins classics) by Lew Wallace (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Stranger: A Novel (A Vintage Book, V-2) by Albert Camus (2006/2008 Edition)
• James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary (Signet Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Portrait of a Lady (Signet Classics) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008 Edition)
• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008 Edition)
• V.: A NOVEL BY THOMAS PYNCHON by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008 Edition)
• The idiot (The Modern library of the world's best books. [Modern library giants]) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (2006/2008 Edition)
• Excellent Women by Pym Barbara (2008 Edition)
• Silence by Shusako Endo (2008 Edition)

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

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2009, No 467, Age 8 and over)
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (2009, No 801, Age 12 and over)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2009, No 819, Age 12 and over)
• Winnie-the-Pooh: 2 by A. A. Milne (2009, Ages 3↑)
• The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm (2009, Ages 5↑)
• Charlotte's Web by E B White (2009, Ages 5↑)

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

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (17)

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

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (9)

1975 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Novel

• The Time Machine: 2 by H.G. Wells (20)
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (20)
• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (24)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke (28)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (41)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time Fantasy Novel

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (2)

1987 Locus Poll, Best All-Time SF Novel

• The Time Machine: 2 by H.G. Wells (15)
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (25)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (34)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke (38)
• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (42)

AAR Top 100 Romances

• Jane Eyre (Classics S) by Charlotte Bronte (2004, 87)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Adult, 1998)
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells (Adult, 1999)

Agatha Award Nominee

• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Non-Fiction, 2004)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (40)
• Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut (67)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (68)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (41)
• Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut (69)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (70)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
• All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot (1974)
• The Story of American Photography: An Illustrated History for Young People by Martin W. Sandler (1979)
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson (Biography, 1999)
• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Fiction, 1999)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Fiction, 1999)
• John Adams by David McCullough (History, 2004)
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (History, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot ( Feel Good Books, 1998)
• Rebecca ( Romance -- Passion and Heartbreak, 2000)
• Sphere, a Novel by Michael Crichton ( Page Turners -- Adult Novels for Teens, 2000)
• Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg ( Poetry, 2001)
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston ( What Ails you?, 2006)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties And Cats Gone Bad by Jim Edgar (2006)

Alan Paton Award

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

All Iowa Reads

• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (2006)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Fiction, 1988)
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography, 1998)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)
• Washington's Crossing (Audio CD) by David Hackett Fischer (American Studies, 2005)

American Book Award

• The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 by Jack Beatty (1993)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• The Complete Shade Gardener by George Schenk (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon by Mac Griswold (2000)

Andre Simon

• The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson (1994)

Andre Simon Award

• Vines, Grapes and Wines by Jancis Robinson (1986)
• Vintage: The Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson (1989)

Anthony Award

• Rebecca (Novel Of The Century, 2000)

Anthony Award Nominee

• Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers (Novel Of The Century, 2000)
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Novel Of The Century, 2000)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
• Defence, The by Vladimir Nabokov (1964)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America by Daniel Benjamin (Gold medal, 2004)
• Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (The Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) by Olivier Roy (Silver medal, 2006)

Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro (1986)

Bancroft Prize

• Ordeal of the Union, Vol. 2: A House Dividing, 1852-1857 by A Nevins (1948)
• Ordeal of the Union, Vol. 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847-1852 by A Nevins (1948)
• The Era of Good Feelings - America Comes of Age in the Period of Monroe and Adams by George Dangerfield (1953)
• The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933: The Age of Roosevelt by Arthur M. Schlesinger (1958)
• In the Days of McKinley by Leech Margaret (1960)
• John Adams Two Volume Boxed Set : Volume I 1735-1784; Volume II 1784-1826 by Page Smith (1963)
• The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968)
• The devil and John Foster Dulles by Townsend Hoopes (1974)
• The Age of Federalism - The Early American Republic, 1788 - 1800 by Stanley Elkins (1994)
• Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States) by James T. Patterson (1997)

Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930)

BBC's Big Read

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Best loved novel, 2003, No 06)
• Winnie-the-Pooh: 2 by A. A. Milne (Best loved novel, 2003, No 07)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Best loved novel, 2003, No 08)
• Jane Eyre (Classics S) by Charlotte Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 10)
• Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• Rebecca (Best loved novel, 2003, No 14)
• The wind in the willows (Thrushwood books) by Kenneth Grahame (Best loved novel, 2003, No 16)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 17)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Best loved novel, 2003, No 25)
• Tess of the d' Urbervilles (Best loved novel, 2003, No 26)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Best loved novel, 2003, No 70)
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (Best loved novel, 2003, No 109)
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 111)
• Les Miserables (Les Pleiades) by Victor Hugo (Best loved novel, 2003, No 114)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 115)
• The 39 Steps by John Buchan (Best loved novel, 2003, No 138)
• Charlotte's Web by E B White (Best loved novel, 2003, No 170)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Best loved novel, 2003, No 178)
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Best loved novel, 2003, No 180)
• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Best loved novel, 2003, No 194)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• With Malice Toward None: 2 by Stephen B. Oates (1978)
• Freedom - A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by William Safire (1988)
• The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip Shaw Paludan (1995)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)

Benjamin Franklin Award

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

Benjamin Franklin Award (Autobiography/Biography/Memoirs, 2006) Black Dog & Leventhal edition

• A thousand days; John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger

BILBY

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Older Readers, 1997)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals (Crime Club S.) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ( Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2004)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Headlong: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Michael Frayn (1999)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Modern Library Giant : 3 Volume Set, G6, G7 & G8 by Edward Gibbon
• The Aeneid (Highbridge Classics) (Audio CD) by Virgil
• The Time Machine: 2 by H.G. Wells
• The Histories by Aubrey (translator) Herodotus; De Selincourt

Bothers Judd Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

British Academy Book Prize

• The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)

British Book Award

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Popular Fiction, 2008)

British Science Fiction Association Award

• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
• Starship by Brian W Aldiss (BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award - Best Novel of 1958)

Bücher, die Geschichte machten

• Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Caldecott Honor

• Cathedral the story of It's construction by David Macaulay (1974)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History by H. W. Crocker III (History and Culture)
• Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc (History and Culture)
• The Seven Storey Mountain (Harvest/Hbj Book) by Thomas Merton (Holy Men and Women)
• Silence by Shusako Endo (Literary Classics)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Literary Classics)
• Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Literary Classics)
• The Divine Comedy; The Carlyle - Wicksteed Translation, Complete and Unabridged (Modern Library Editions ML 208) by Dante Alighieri (Literary Classics)
• Confessions (Penguin Classics) by Saint Augustine of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)
• Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis De Sales (Spiritual Reading)
• He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek (Spiritual Reading)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God) by N. T. Wright (Biblical Studies, 2004)
• Death on a Friday Afternoon : Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ by Richard J. Neuhaus (Christian Living, 2001)
• Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, 2005)

Christopher Award

• Pyramid by MacAulay David (Books for Young People, 1976)

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