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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (2006 Edition)
• Alexanderplatz Berlin: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Doblin (2006/2008 Edition)
• Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (Oe, Kenzaburo) by Kenzaburo Oe (2006/2008 Edition)
• Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies by Laura Esquivel (2006/2008 Edition)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2006/2008 Edition)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008 Edition)
• Rashomon and other stories; by Ryˆunosuke Akutagawa (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Passion According to G.H. (Emergent Literatures) by Clarice Lispector (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Question of Power (African Writers) by Bessie Head (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector (2006/2008 Edition)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2006/2008 Edition)
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau (2006/2008 Edition)
• Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille (2006/2008 Edition)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (2006/2008 Edition)
• Young Torless by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Nun (Penguin Classics) by Denis Diderot (2006/2008 Edition)
• Junkie [Junky] - Traveller's Companion Series # 114 - With a Preface by William (Lee) [Pen name: William Lee] Burroughs (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (Whole Story) by Jules Verne (2006/2008 Edition)
• The Lover by Marguerite Duras (2006/2008 Edition)
• Blind man with a pistol by Chester B. Himes (2006/2008 Edition)
• Gods Bits of Wood (African Writers) by Sembere Ousmane (2008 Edition)
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (2008 Edition)
• Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz (2008 Edition)
• So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) by Mariama Ba (2008 Edition)
• Insatiability (Quartet Encounters) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (2008 Edition)

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

• The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm; Zipes Grimm, Jack David (2009, Ages 5↑)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies by Laura Esquivel (Adult, 1994)
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (Adult, 1997)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (creative writing)
• A Question of Power (African Writers) by Bessie Head (creative writing)
• Bones (African Writers) by Chenjerai Hove (creative writing)
• Gods Bits of Wood (African Writers) by Sembere Ousmane (creative writing)
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (creative writing)
• The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers S.) by Ayi Kwei Armah (creative writing)
• So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) by Mariama Ba (creative writing, top twelve)
• Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (scholarship/non-fiction, top twelve)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Growing Up Black by Jay David (1968)
• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines (1983)
• 1933 Was a Bad Year by John Fante (1986)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin)) by Juan Williams (1987)
• Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies (1987)
• Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies by Laura Esquivel (1994)
• Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud Van der Rol (1994)

ALA Notable Book

• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1990)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (Biography, 1999)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin)) by Juan Williams (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Nectar in a sieve by Kamala Markandaya (Fiction, 1999)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)
• The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture by Marjane Satrapi (History & Cultures, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago ( Tales of the Cities, 2002)

Alan Paton Award

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

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhatten in the 1920s by Ann Douglas (1995)

Alex Award

• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (1999)

Ambassador Book Award

• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (Fiction, 1998)

American Book Award

• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (1989)
• Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (1991)
• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (1996)
• Comfort woman by Nora Okja Keller (1998)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (1998)

Andre Simon Award

• A Dictionary of Japanese Food by Richard Hosking (1997)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)

Bancarella

• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (1995)

Bancroft Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

Batchelder Honor

• Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud Van der Rol (1994)

BBC's Big Read

• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Best loved novel, 2003, No 175)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud Van der Rol (1993)

Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Crime Novels

• For Love of Imabelle (A Signet Book, Y6096) by Himes Chester

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Driving Mr. Albert : a trip across America with Einstein's brain by Michael Paterniti ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001)

Booker Prize Shortlist

• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1989)

Borges' A Personal Library

• Tales Of Ise (Classics of Japanese Literature)

British Guild of Food Writers

• A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (Food Book of the Year, 2002)

Canadian Booksellers Association Award

• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1989)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by John Clarke (Spiritual Classics)

Christopher Award

• Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud Van der Rol (Books for Young People, 1994)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines (Fiction, Silver, 1983)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History by Wilson Edmund

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Jugendbuch, 1994)

Deux Magots

• Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau (1933)

Drama Desk Award

• A Texas Trilogy (Mermaid Dramabook) by Preston Jones (New American Play, 1976-1977)

Edgar Award

• Edgar A Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance by Kenneth Silverman (Critical / Biographical, 1992)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Blind man with a pistol by Chester B. Himes (Novel, 1970)

The Esquire / Apple / Waterstone's Non-Fiction Award

• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin

Eudora Welty Prize

• Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press by Jeff Weddle (2007)

Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1997)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• The Beauty of Fetish by Midori (Art/Photo, 1999)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Project Management)

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

• For Love of Imabelle (A Signet Book, Y6096) by Himes Chester (International Prize, 1958)

Guardian 1000

• Zazie dans le Metro by Raymond Queneau (Comedy)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Comedy)
• For Love of Imabelle (A Signet Book, Y6096) by Himes Chester (Crime)
• The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil (Family and self)
• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (Family and self)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (Love)
• The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Love)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (State of the nation)
• Gods Bits of Wood (African Writers) by Sembere Ousmane (State of the nation)
• Alexanderplatz Berlin: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Doblin (State of the nation)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (State of the nation)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (Whole Story) by Jules Verne (War and travel)

H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

• Blind man with a pistol by Chester B. Himes (70)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by John Clarke

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud Van der Rol (1994)

IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

• Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner

• Immortality by Milan Kundera (1991)

International IMPAC Dublin

• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (Shortlist, 1997)
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (Shortlist, 1999)

IPPY Finalist

• Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator: Side By Side by Wendy Crumpler (Computer/Internet, 2001)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Long List

• Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (High Risk) by Caitlin Sullivan (1997)

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