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

• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1948)
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The Princesse de Cleves (Penguin Classics) by Madame de Lafayette (2006/2008 Edition)
• Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) by Frances Burney (2006/2008 Edition)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008 Edition)
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2006/2008 Edition)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (2006/2008 Edition)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells (Adult, 1999)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (3)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (45)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (3)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (42)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1969)
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1970)
• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (1974)
• Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas: Volume 3 by Maya Angelou (1976)
• When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: Tie-In Edition by Le Ly Hayslip (1990)
• The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (1990)
• Black Ice by Lorene Cary (1992)
• HAVING OUR SAY - THE DELANY SISTERS' FIRST 100 YEARS by Sarah & A. Elizabeth Delany (1994)
• Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters by Joan Ryan (1996)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (2008)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Biography, 1999)
• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (Biography, 1999)
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mary Pipher (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1999)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Social Sciences, 2004)
• WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? (A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR JOB-HUNTERS & CAREER-CHANGERS by Richard Nelson Bolles (Social Sciences, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Black Ice by Lorene Cary ( The Stories of Our Lives, 1997)
• HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS by Julia Alvarez ( Multicultural Fiction, 1997)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Berube (1991)
• Positively Gay by Betty Berzon (1993)
• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino (2007)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner

• Lesbian / Woman by Del Martin (1972)
• Our Right to Love by Ginny Vida (1978)
• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women) by Lillian Faderman (1992)
• Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden (2005)

Alex Award

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2002)

American Book Award

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1988)
• Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (1991)
• Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway (1992)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1988)
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Gold medal, 2007)

Bancroft Prize

• Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) by Mary P. Ryan (1982)
• Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow by Jacqueline Jones (1986)

Best Books of 1999

• Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Hrdy (Publishers Weekly, 1999)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (Adult Nonfiction Winner, 2008)

Christian Science Monitor Best Book

• American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante (Nonfiction, 2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (Nonfiction, Silver, 1991)

Coretta Scott King Honor

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Author, 1971)

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

• My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-neel

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-neel (055)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• From Girls to Grrlz : A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines by Trina Robbins (Art/Photo, 2000)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Work & Life)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Work & Life)

The Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Grawemeyer Award in Religion

• She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth A. Johnson (1993)

Guardian 1000

• Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) by Frances Burney (Family and self)
• The Princesse de Cleves (Penguin Classics) by Madame de Lafayette (Love)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Love)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

Hagley Prize in Business History

• Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru by Kathryn Burns (2000)

Howells Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Biological Anthropology

• Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Hrdy

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (-1966)

IPPY Finalist

• Is the Pope Catholic?: A Woman Confronts Her Church by Joanna Manning (Religion, 2001)
• Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street by Susan Antilla (Women's Issues, 2003)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown (1982)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence by Linda Gordon (1988)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (1989)

Lambda Literary Award

• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women) by Lillian Faderman (Editor's Choice, 1991)
• Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Berube (Gay Men's Nonfiction, 1990)
• Out the other side: Contemporary lesbian writing by Sue (Editor) O`Sullivan, and McEwen, Christian (Editor) (Lesbian Anthology, 1989)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Women's Glib: A Collection of Women's Humor by Roz Warren (Humor, 1991)
• The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green by Eric Orner (Humor, 1992)
• Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out by Loraine Hutchins (Lesbian Anthology, 1991)
• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women) by Lillian Faderman (Lesbian Nonfiction, 1991)
• More Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel (Lesbian Small Press, 1988)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (12)

Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize

• Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade by Rickie Solinger (1992)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Current Interest, 2001)

Ludwik Fleck Prize

• Modest Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience by Donna J Haraway (1999)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (The Reader's List, 31)

The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1980s)

National Book Award finalist

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown (History (Hardcover), 1983)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (General Nonfiction, 1991)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism by Katha Pollitt (Criticism, 1994)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)

New York Public Library's Books of the Century

• I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu (Colonialism & Its Aftermath)
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (Women Rise)
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (Women Rise)
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Women Rise)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Sexual Politics by Kate Millett (1970)
• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (1987)

New York Times bestseller

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Fiction, 1987)
• By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel by Alice Walker (Fiction, 1998)
• Daughters and rebels: An autobiography by Jessica Mitford (General, 1960)
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (General, 1963)
• Sexual Politics by Kate Millett (General, 1970)
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (General, 1970)
• The Female Eunuch. by Germaine Greer (General, 1971)
• Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life by Gail Sheehy (General, 1976)
• The Managerial Woman by Margaret & Anne Jardin Hennig (General, 1977)
• Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland (Nonfiction, 1986)
• I Know Just What You Mean: the Power of Friendship in Women's Lives: The Power of Friendshiping Women's Lives by Ellen Goodman (Nonfiction, 2000)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver (Nonfiction, 2007)
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Nonfiction, 2007)

New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

• Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison (Winner)

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