Book Awards for mortalfool

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar

• Educated by Tara Westover (2021)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig (2021)

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar 2021

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
• The Art Spirit (Icon Editions) by Robert Henri
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by John Keats
• The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
• Death of a Salesman by Miller, Arthur ( Author ) ON Mar-18-1994, Hardback by Arthur Miller
• Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
• Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17) by Joseph Campbell
• The Iliad by Homer
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Stoner by John Williams
• The Waste Land: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) by TS Eliot
• The White Album: Essays by Joan Didion

100 Best Books of 2010-2015 by The Oyster Editors

• The Flamethrowers: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
• Just Kids by Patti Smith

100 best novels written in English

• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (014)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll (018)
• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (021)
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad (032)
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (035)
• The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) by Ernest Hemingway (053)

100 Books in Literary Oregon, 1800-2000

• Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

100 Books That Shaped World History

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Iliad by Homer

100 Essential New England Books

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ( #4)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (Boston Globe, #16)
• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (Boston Globe, #43)
• On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac (Boston Globe, #46)
• Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder (Boston Globe, #55)
• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown (Boston Globe, #76)

The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (10)
• The World According to Garp (18)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (32)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (37)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (44)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll (46)
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (63)
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (66)
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck (70)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (75)
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens (79)
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (99)

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

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Iliad by Homer (8th – early 7th century BCE)

100 книг non-fiction от The Prime Russian Magazine

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The World is Flat (A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century) by Thomas L. Friedman

100 книг зарубежных авторов, рекомендуемых к самостоятельному прочтению

• Tartuffe (NHB Drama Classics) by Molière (4)

100 книг, которые должен прочитать каждый по мнению Дмитрия Быкова

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• Fathers and Sons (Signet Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Tartuffe (NHB Drama Classics) by Molière (8)
• Roadside Picnic (SF Collector's Edition) by Arkady Strugatsky (87)

100 лучших книг по версии Дистопии

• 1984 by George Orwell (1)
• Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition by George Orwell (13)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (21)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (39)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (47)
• On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac (53)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (63)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (69)
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski (89)
• Ham on Rye: A Novel by Charles Bukowski (93)

100 лучших книг по версии журнала "Marie Claire"

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
• French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
• The World According to Garp

1000 Books to Read Before You Die

• 1984 by George Orwell (2018)
• 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolaño (2018)
• The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos (2018)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2018)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (2018)
• Beowulf a New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition by Seamus Heaney (2018)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (2018)
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (2018)
• The Cherry Orchard (Modern Plays) by Tom Murphy (2018)
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens (2018)
• The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (2018)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2018)
• Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James (2018)
• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown (2018)
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (2018)
• Death of a Salesman by Miller, Arthur ( Author ) ON Mar-18-1994, Hardback by Arthur Miller (2018)
• The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio (2018)
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (2018)
• A Drinking Life: A Memoir by Pete Hamill (2018)
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (2018)
• French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (2018)
• The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by Guy Davenport (2018)
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck (2018)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (2018)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2018)
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (2018)
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad (2018)
• A House for Mr.Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (2018)
• The Iliad by Homer (2018)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (2018)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (2018)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2018)
• Julius Caesar (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• King Lear by William Shakespeare (2018)
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (2018)
• The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Penguin Classics) by Vincent Van Gogh (2018)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2018)
• Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (2018)
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (2018)
• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2018)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2018)
• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (2018)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics) by J. L. Carr (2018)
• Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2018)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (2018)
• Othello by William Shakespeare (2018)
• Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford (2018)
• Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• The Seagull (Student Editions) by Anton Chekhov (2018)
• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare (2018)
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (2018)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (2018)
• Stoner by John Williams (2018)
• A Streetcar Named Desire. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Tennessee Williams (2018)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2018)
• Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe (2018)
• The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (2018)
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf (2018)
• Uncle Vanya (Dodo Press) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (2018)
• Under the Volcano (Perennial Classic.) by Malcolm Lowry (2018)
• USA (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) by John Dos Passos (2018)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (2018)
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (2018)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author by Edward Albee (2018)
• The World According to Garp (2018)
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2018)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig (2018)

1000 лучших произведений мировой худ. литературы в русских переводах, рекомендованных для комплектования школьной библиотеки

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Fathers and Sons (Signet Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The Iliad by Homer
• Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
• Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Roadside Picnic (SF Collector's Edition) by Arkady Strugatsky
• Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• The Seagull (Student Editions) by Anton Chekhov
• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare
• Tartuffe (NHB Drama Classics) by Molière
• The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
• Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• Uncle Vanya (Dodo Press) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford (2006 edition)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (2006 Edition)
• Breakfast of Champions: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (2006 Edition)
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006 Edition)
• The Information by Martin Amis (2006 Edition)
• Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (2006 Edition)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (2006 Edition)
• Vineland by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
• The World According to Garp (2006 Edition)
• 1984 by George Orwell (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition by George Orwell (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Babbit (Bibliobazaar Reproduction) by Sinclair Lewis (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Blindness by Henry Green (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Fathers and Sons (Signet Classics) by Ivan Turgenev (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" (50th Anniversary Edition) by William S. Burroughs (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• London Fields by Martin Amis (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Long Goodbye: 6 (Philip Marlowe Novel) by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Mao II: A Novel by Don DeLillo (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Rabbit Is Rich (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Rabbit Redux by John Updike (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Return of the Soldier (Modern Library Torchbearers) by Rebecca West (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) by Ernest Hemingway (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Under the Volcano (Perennial Classic.) by Malcolm Lowry (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• USA (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) by John Dos Passos (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• White Noise: (Penguin Orange Collection) by Don DeLillo (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Flannery O'Connor (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolaño (2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir (2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel by by Eudora Welty (2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• Play It as It Lays (FSG Classics) by Joan Didion (2008/2010/2012 Edition)
• The Flamethrowers: A Novel by Rachel Kushner (2018 Edition)

1001 böcker du måste läsa innan du dör

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll
• Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition by George Orwell
• Breakfast of Champions: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London
• The Cherry Orchard (Modern Plays) by Tom Murphy
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
• Fathers and Sons (Signet Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
• The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad
• Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Long Goodbye: 6 (Philip Marlowe Novel) by Raymond Chandler
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• Miss Julie by August Strindberg
• The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
• Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• The Seagull (Student Editions) by Anton Chekhov
• Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I by Henry Miller
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Tartuffe (NHB Drama Classics) by Molière
• Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• The World According to Garp

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

• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (2009, Ages 3↑)
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.Seuss (2009, Ages 3↑)
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens (2009, Ages 8↑)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll (2009, Ages 8↑)
• The Call Of The Wild by Jack London (2009, Ages 12↑)

125 Great Southern Books

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel by by Eudora Welty
• Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Flannery O'Connor
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1)

15 Bytes Book Award Finalist

• Educated by Tara Westover (Creative Nonfiction, 2019)

18 Best French novels

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

1898 C.K. Shorter List of Best 100 Novels

• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Fathers and Sons (Signet Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray

20 German Novels You Must Read

• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (12)

200 лучших нон-фикшн книг по версии журнала "Афиша"

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Ecco) by Anthony Bourdain

29 Best Latin American novels

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

365 Books by Women Authors

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
• The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel by by Eudora Welty

50 Best Suspense Books of All Time

• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown

50 Great Hispanic Novels Every Student Should Read

• The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
• 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolaño (25)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (31)

The 50 Most Essential Works Of Jewish Fiction Of The Last 100 Years

• Death of a Salesman by Miller, Arthur ( Author ) ON Mar-18-1994, Hardback by Arthur Miller (4)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (14)
• The Day of the Locust (Signet Classics) by Nathanael West (21)
• Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow (46)

50 Plus One Great Books You Should Have Read

• Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• The Waste Land: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) by TS Eliot

500 Great Books by Women

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (Friendships and Interactions)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Trials and Adversity)

501 Must-Read Books

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll (Children's Fiction)
• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens (Classic Fiction)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Classic Fiction)
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad (Classic Fiction)
• The Iliad by Homer (Classic Fiction)
• Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (Classic Fiction)
• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot (Classic Fiction)
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf (Classic Fiction)
• Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray (Classic Fiction)
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (Memoirs)
• Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford (Memoirs)
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (Modern Fiction)
• Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge (Modern Fiction)
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Modern Fiction)
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck (Modern Fiction)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (Modern Fiction)
• A House for Mr.Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (Modern Fiction)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Modern Fiction)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Modern Fiction)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Modern Fiction)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (Modern Fiction)
• Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe (Modern Fiction)
• The World According to Garp (Modern Fiction)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (Science Fiction)
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (Travel Writing)

61 Essential Postmodern Reads

• 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolaño (disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, includes fictional artifacts, blurs reality and fiction, more than 1,000 pages)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (50)
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (53)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, blurs reality and fiction, fewer than 200 pages)
• Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace (60)

66 Bücher, von denen alle sagen, dass du sie gelesen haben musst

• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

AbeBooks: 50 Essential Historical Fiction Books

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

AbeBooks: 50 Essential Travel Books

• Coming into the Country by John McPhee

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

• Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer (1984)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee

• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck (1940)
• A Streetcar Named Desire. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Tennessee Williams (1951)
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1955)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (1958)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1961)
• Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1961)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author by Edward Albee (1966)
• Equus (Penguin Plays) by Peter Shaffer (1977)
• Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad (1979)
• French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1981)
• Betrayal (Pinter Plays) by Harold Pinter (1983)
• The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1996)
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1996)
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2015)
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (2018)

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

• Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe (creative writing, top twelve)

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

• Train Dreams: A Novella by Denis Johnson (2002)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (6)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (67)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (6)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (69)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009

• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (5)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (46)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (1968)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1971)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974)
• Lost in Yonkers (Drama, Plume) by Neil Simon (1993)
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1997)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (2008)

ALA Most Frequently Challenged Books

• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1990-2005, 2007-2008, 2015-2016)

ALA Notable Book

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2021)

ALA Notable Books for Adults

• The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer (1948)
• 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
• Death of a Salesman by Miller, Arthur ( Author ) ON Mar-18-1994, Hardback by Arthur Miller (1949)
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (1950)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
• The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics) by Reinhold Niebuhr (1952)
• Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (1956)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1958)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author by Edward Albee (1963)
• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (1968)
• French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1969)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1970)
• Play It as It Lays (FSG Classics) by Joan Didion (1970)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel by by Eudora Welty (1972)
• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
• Sticks and Bones: A Play in Two Acts by David Rabe (1973)
• Dog Soldiers Pa by Robert Stone (1974)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig (1974)
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee (1977)
• The World According to Garp (1978)
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1979)
• Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
• White Noise: (Penguin Orange Collection) by Don DeLillo (1985)
• The End of Vandalism: A Novel by Tom Drury (1995)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1998)
• Beowulf a New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition by Seamus Heaney (2001)
• The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt (2001)
• The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams (2001)
• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann (2010)
• Just Kids by Patti Smith (2011)
• The Tragedy of Arthur: A Novel by Arthur Phillips (2012)
• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (2013)
• M Train (KNOPF) by Patti Smith (Nonfiction, 2016)
• At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (2017)
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Fiction, 2018)
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Fiction, 2019)
• The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner (Fiction, 2019)
• The Overstory by Richard Powers (Fiction, 2019)
• There There: A novel by Tommy Orange (Fiction, 2019)
• Washington Black: A novel by Esi Edugyan (Fiction, 2019)
• American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer (Nonfiction, 2019)
• Educated by Tara Westover (Nonfiction, 2019)
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Roughcut) by David W. Blight (Nonfiction, 2019)
• The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón (Poetry, 2019)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll (2000)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Death of a Salesman by Miller, Arthur ( Author ) ON Mar-18-1994, Hardback by Arthur Miller (Drama, 1999)
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Drama, 1999)
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Drama, 1999)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Drama, 1999)
• King Lear by William Shakespeare (Drama, 1999)
• Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (Drama, 1999)
• Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder (Drama, 1999)
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Drama, 1999)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Fiction, 1999)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction, 1999)
• Tipping Point: How little things can make a difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Social Sciences, 2009)
• The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck ([1999] ∙ Fiction ∙ 1999)