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

• The Iliad by Homer., (8th – early 7th century BCE)
• The Aeneid by Virgil., (19 BCE)
• Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (167)
• Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (400 AD)
• The comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine by Dante Alighieri, (1321)
• The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais (1534)
• The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel Eyquem Montaigne (1580)
• Galileo Galilei Dialogue on the Great World Systems in the Salusbury Translation by Galileo Galilei (1632)
• Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• Essay Concerning Human Understanding: vol. 2 by John Locke (1684)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden (2006 Edition)
• Metamorphoses : a new verse translation by Ovid, (2006 Edition)
• Where angels fear to tread by E. M. Forster (2006 Edition)
• Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann (2006/2008 Edition)
• The betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (2006/2008 Edition)
• The path to the spiders' nests by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (2006/2008 Edition)
• The House by the Medlar Tree: I Malavoglia (Dedalus European Classics Series) by Giovanni Verga (2006/2008 Edition)
• Look homeward, angel : a story of the buried life by Thomas Wolfe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Conversazione in Sicilia by Elio Vittorini (2006/2008 Edition)
• If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Émile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese (2006/2008 Edition)
• A room with a view by E. M. Forster (2006/2008 Edition)
• Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassini (2006/2008 Edition)
• Cristo si e fermato a Eboli by Carlo Levi (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi (2006/2008 Edition)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (2006/2008 Edition)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008 Edition)
• Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (2006/2008 Edition)
• One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (2006/2008 Edition)
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Emily Bronte (2006/2008 Edition)
• Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006/2008 Edition)
• Le citta invisibili by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
• Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (2006/2008 Edition)
• Portrait of a Lady (Riverside Editions) by Henry James (2006/2008 Edition)
• I'm not scared : [a novel] by Niccolò Ammaniti (2008 Edition)
• To each his own by Leonardo Sciascia (2008 Edition)

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

• Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce, Italian Style) by Pietro Germi (1962)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (83)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (84)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (Penguin Plays & Screenplays) by George Bernard Shaw (Drama, 1999)
• Civilization: A Personal View by Kennteh McKenzie Clark (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction, 1999)
• The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes (Science & Technology, 2004)
• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King (Humanities, 2004)
• The power of myth by Joseph Campbell (Arts & Humanities, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer ( Relationships: Friends and Families, 2002)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

• Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture by Leonard Barkan (1999)

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award

• The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo : the representation of architecture by Henry A. Millon (1996)

Alice Davis Hitchcock Award

• Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) by Richard Krautheimer (1966)
• Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence by Marvin Trachtenberg (1999)

American Book Award

• Italian days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1990)

And/Or Book Award

• Atlas of emotion : journeys in art, architecture, and film by Giuliana Bruno (Moving Image, 2003)

Bancarella

• Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)

Bancroft Prize

• Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal by William Leuchtenburg (1964)

BBC's Big Read

• Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Emily Bronte (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (Best loved novel, 2003, No 19)
• Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot (Best loved novel, 2003, No 27)
• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden (Best loved novel, 2003, No 62)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Best loved novel, 2003, No 79)
• One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (Best loved novel, 2003, No 157)

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

• The Iliad by Homer.,

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King (Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2001)
• Michelangelo & the Pope's ceiling by Ross King ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2004)
• The Da Vinci code : a novel by Dan Brown ( Adult Fiction Winner, 2004)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Two lives : Reading Turgenev and My house in Umbria by William Trevor (1991)

Borges' A Personal Library

• The Aeneid by Virgil.,

British Book Award

• The Da Vinci code : a novel by Dan Brown (Book of the Year, 2005)

C. Wright Mills Award

• Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor by Sudhir Alladi. Venkatesh (2006)

Campiello

• The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini (1990)
• I'm not scared : [a novel] by Niccolò Ammaniti (Europa, 2006)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• The comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine by Dante Alighieri, (Literary Classics)
• Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (Spiritual Classics)
• The betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (Spiritual Reading)

Christopher Award

• Galileo's daughter : a drama of science, faith and love by Dava Sobel

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof (Nonfiction, Gold, 1985)
• Giovanni and Lusanna : Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker (Nonfiction, Silver, 1986)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernières (Best Book, Europe and South Asia, 1995)

Ditmar Award

• Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (International Fiction, 1970)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock (Negotiating & Managing)
• The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Office Politics)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal by William Leuchtenburg (1964)

George Louis Beer Prize

• A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L Weinberg (1994)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Design in America : the Cranbrook vision, 1925-1950 by Robert Judson Clark (1985)
• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)
• Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio by Janet Cox-Rearick (1994)
• The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s by Jane Davidson Reid (1994)
• Fra Angelico at San Marco by William Hood (1994)

Guardian 1000

• The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Comedy)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Family and self)
• The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi (Family and self)
• Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo (Family and self)
• Palace walk by Najīb Maḥfūẓ (Family and self)
• One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (Family and self)
• Arturo's island by Elsa Morante (Love)
• Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Emily Bronte (Love)
• A room with a view by E. M. Forster (Love)
• Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann (Love)
• Portrait of a Lady (Riverside Editions) by Henry James (Love)
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Love)
• Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassini (Love)
• The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini (Love)
• Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• To each his own by Leonardo Sciascia (State of the nation)
• The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese (State of the nation)
• The betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (State of the nation)
• Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (State of the nation)
• The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (State of the nation)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (State of the nation)
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (State of the nation)
• Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot (State of the nation)
• Le citta invisibili by Italo Calvino (War and travel)
• History : a novel by Elsa Morante (War and travel)

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

• Where angels fear to tread by E. M. Forster (2009)
• Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2009)

Hawthornden Prize

• Early Renaissance (Style and Civilization) by Michael Levey (1968)

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

• Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann (Michael Henry Heim, 2005)

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

• Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice by Edward Muir (1982)
• Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City by John Jeffries Martin (1994)

Herbert Hoover Book Award

• A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L Weinberg (1994)

Howard R. Marraro

• Dante: The Poetics of Conversion by John Freccero ( Honorable Mention)
• Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism by Millicent Marcus (1986-1988)

Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History

• Avant-garde Florence : from modernism to fascism by Walter L. Adamson (1994)
• Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 by Augustine Thompson (ACHA, 2005)

IPPY Bronze

• A room with a view by E. M. Forster (Erotica, 2007)

IPPY Finalist

• Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock (Women's Issues, 2004)

James Russell Lowell Prize

• Renaissance clothing and the materials of memory by Ann Rosalind Jones (2000)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• How fascism ruled women : Italy, 1922-1945 by Victoria De Grazia (1992)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

• Virgins of Venice : Enclosed lives and broken vows in the Renaissance convent by Mary Laven (2002)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Three novels by Samuel Beckett : Molloy, Malone dies, The unnamable by Samuel Beckett (6)
• Look homeward, angel : a story of the buried life by Thomas Wolfe (95)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

• Holy Bible (King James Version)
• The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Benevolence and betrayal : five Italian Jewish families under fascism by Alexander Stille (History, 1992)
• Galileo's daughter : a drama of science, faith and love by Dava Sobel (Science and Technology, 1999)

LOST Book Club

• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden

Meilleur Livre Étranger

• A Tale of Poor Lovers (Voices of Resistance) by Vasco Pratolini (1952)

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

• The education of Henry Adams, an autobiography by Henry Adams (1)
• Art and Illusion by E. H. Gombrich (29)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (42)
• A study of history by Arnold Joseph Toynbee (45)
• The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford (76)
• Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance by Erwin Panofsky (80)

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