Awards in your library

Summary: 41 Awards.

Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Brontë (Best loved novel, 2003, No 12)
War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Best loved novel, 2003, No 20)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)
Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley (Best loved novel, 2003, No 171)

Benjamin Barondess Award

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (1993)

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

The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Robert Fagles

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

The Odyssey by Homer. Translated By Robert Fagles

Borges' A Personal Library

THE GREEK MYTHS: 1 and 2 by Robert Graves

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright (Globalization)

Guardian 1000

Tristram Shandy (Norton Critical Editions) by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Family and self)
Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Brontë (Love)
Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (War and travel)
War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (War and travel)

Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl (Biography, 1992)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist

Galapagos A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1986)

LOST Book Club

The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books) by Joseph Campbell (93)

National Book Award finalist

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
The Odyssey by Homer. Translated By Robert Fagles (Translation, 1968)
The Purgatorio (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri (Translation, 1983)

National Book Award Nomination

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (1978)

National Book Critics Circle Award

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Criticism, 1992)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (American Poets Continuum) by W.D. Snodgrass (Poetry, 1977)
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum) by W.D. Snodgrass (Poetry, 2006)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

New York Times bestseller

Galapagos A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, 1985)
The Book of J by Harold Bloom (Nonfiction, 1990)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2009, No. 1)
The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Robert Fagles (2009, No. 8)
The Odyssey by Homer. Translated By Robert Fagles (2009, No. 8)
Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley (2009, No. 56)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2007)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (2003)
Tristram Shandy (Norton Critical Editions) by Laurence Sterne (2003)
Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley (2003)
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003)
Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Brontë (2003)

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels

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

Pulitzer Prize

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (General Non-Fiction, 1993)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (General Non-Fiction, 1990)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (History, 1993)

Pulitzer Prize finalist (Poetry, 1994) Allen Mandelbaum translation

Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (63)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (General, 1991)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler (General, 1991)
Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution (Helix Book) by Christopher Wills (General, 2000)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

Frankenstein (Signet Classics) by Mary Shelley (2008)
The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Robert Fagles (2008)
The Odyssey by Homer. Translated By Robert Fagles (2008)
War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2008)

The Ten Greatest Books of All Time - TIME

War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (2007)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

The Odyssey by Homer. Translated By Robert Fagles ([trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996)

Whitcoulls top 100, 2008

Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Brontë (46)

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