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

• John Adams by David McCullough (2021)
• The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America by Bill O'Reilly (2021)
• Personal History by Katharine Graham (2021)

100 Essential New England Books

• John Adams by David McCullough (21)

100 Must-Read Memoirs by Bookriot

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

1000 Books to Read Before You Die

• April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
• Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro
• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro
• Personal History by Katharine Graham

The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (10)
• A Life in the Twentieth Century : Innocent Beginnings, 1917 - 1950 by Jr." "Schlesinger, Arthur M.
• Personal History by Katharine Graham

500 Great Books by Women

• Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Choices)

500 Must Read Books

• A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

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• The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009

• Alice Alone by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2)

ALA Notable Government Documents

• Best Kept Secrets in Government:,The: How the Clinton Administration Is Reinventing the Way Washington Works by Al Gore (1996)
• Public Affairs (Hardcover): The Military and the Media, 1962-1968 (United States Army in Vietnam) by William M. Hammond (Federal Documents – 1989)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Non-fiction – 1999)
• Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Biography – 1999)
• John Adams by David McCullough (History – 2004)
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (History – 2004)
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts (History & Cultures – 2009)

Alan Paton Award

• Mandela : The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson (Winner – 2000)

Amazon.com Best Books

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (2004)
• American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche (2002)
• China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman (2005)
• The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker by Robert Mankoff (2004)
• The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw (2000)
• John Adams by David McCullough (2001)
• Madam Secretary (Random House Large Print (Paper)) by Madeleine Albright (2003)
• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Winner – American Studies – 1989)
• The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw (Winner – Biography/Autobiography – 2001)
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (Winner – Current Affairs – 2007)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Winner – Biography/Autobiography – 2002)
• N. C. Wyeth: A Biography by David Michaelis (Winner – Biography/Autobiography – 1999)
• Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Guardians of the American Century by Robert W. Merry (Winner – Biography/Autobiography – 1997)
• Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher (Winner – Biography/Autobiography – 1992)

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (Literature – 1986)

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Journalism Award

• State of Fear by Michael Crichton (2006)

American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award

• Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment by Newton N. Minow (Winner – 1996)
• Crime And Punishment In American History: The Price Of Freedom In The History Of American Criminal Justice by Lawrence M. Friedman (Winner – 1994)
• Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies (Winner – 2007)
• The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government by Archibald Cox (Winner – 1977)
• Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court by David G. Savage (Winner – 1993)

American Book Award

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (2005)
• Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2005)
• Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times by Helen Thomas (2000)

American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award

• And the Band Played on: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (1988)
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (1990)
• Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol (1989)
• Rachel and Her Children - Homeless Families in American by Jonathan Kozol (1989)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis (Nonfiction – 1999)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (Honorable Mention – Honorable Mention – 2007)
• Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek (Honorable Mention – Honorable Mention – 2008)

Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism

• Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press by Kristina Borjesson (2003)

Audie Award

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (Winner – Narration by Author or Authors – 2005)
• All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel (Finalist – Inspirational/Motivational – 1996)
• All The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings by George Bush (Finalist – Multi-Voiced Narration – 2000)
• bin Laden : The Man Who Declared War on America by Yossef Bodansky (Finalist – Non-Fiction – 2003)
• Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System by Bill Gates (Finalist – Business Information – 2000)
• Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together by Senator John Danforth (Finalist – Judges' Award: Politics – 2007)
• The Faith of George W. Bush by Stephen Mansfield (Finalist – Inspirational/Spiritual – 2005)
• From This Day Forward by Cokie Roberts (Finalist – Non-Fiction, Abridged – 2001)
• From This Day Forward by Cokie Roberts (Finalist – Solo Narration - Author or Authors – 2001)
• Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff (Winner – Judges' Award: Politics – 2007)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Winner – Non-Fiction, Unabridged – 2002)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Winner – Non-Fiction, Abridged – 2002)
• Kiplinger's Money-Smart Kids by Janet Bodnar (Winner – Educational/How-to/Instructional – 1996)
• Madam Secretary (Random House Large Print (Paper)) by Madeleine Albright (Finalist – Narration by the Author – 2004)
• My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell (Finalist – Inspirational/Motivational – 1996)
• My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell (Finalist – Non-Fiction, Abridged – 1996)
• The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind (Finalist – Judges' Award: Politics – 2007)
• The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (Left Behind No. 10) by Tim LaHaye (Finalist – Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction – 2003)
• Reporting Live by Lesley Stahl (Finalist – Solo Narration, Author or Authors – 1999)
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Finalist – Biography/Memoir – 2003)
• WORDS THAT WORK: IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAY, IT'S WHAT PEOPLE HEAR by Frank Luntz (Winner – Business Information/Educational – 2008)

Award for Constitutional Commentary

• Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy by Charlie Savage (2007)

Axiom Business Book Award

• World, Inc. by Bruce Piasecki (International Business/Globalization, Silver – 2008)

Bancroft Prize

• The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw (2001)
• Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States) by James T. Patterson (1997)
• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (1981)

Barondess/Lincoln Award

• With malice toward none: The life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B Oates (1978)

BBC's Big Read

• Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (Best loved novel, No 96 – 2003)

Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award

• American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace by John C. Culver (2001)

Besides the Bible: 100 Books That Have, Should, or Will Create Christian Culture

• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Best Fiction for Young Adults

• And the Band Played on: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (Selection – 1987)
• Flash! by Abrams (Selection – 1999)
• Flash! The Associated Press Covers the World by Associated Press (Selection – 1999)
• Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America by M. Joycelyn Elders (Selection – 1998)
• The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family by Martha Raddatz (Selection – 2008)
• Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol (Selection – 1988)
• Rachel and Her Children - Homeless Families in American by Jonathan Kozol (Selection – 1988)

BookDepository's 100 Best Books Ever

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

• The Golden Age: An American Chronicle Novel by Gore Vidal (Fiction – 2000)
• John Adams by David McCullough (Biography – 2001)
• A Life in the Twentieth Century : Innocent Beginnings, 1917 - 1950 by Jr." "Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Biography – 2000)
• Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (Biography – 2005)
• A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Garry Wills (History – 1999)
• Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan (Social Sciences – 2003)
• The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome (Social Sciences – 1999)
• Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease by Morton Kondracke (Biography – 2001)
• Scandalmonger: A Novel by William Safire (Fiction – 2000)
• Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi (Social Sciences – 1999)
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Biography – 2001)
• Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger (History – 1999)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults

• Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement by Kareem Abdul-jabbar (1996)
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (1995)

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth

• Unbridled Power: Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS by Shelley L. Davis (1997)

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Reference Sources

• The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia by Maurine Hoffman Beasley (2001)

Books of the Decade: The 50 books that defined the decade

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (2008)

British Book Award

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Winner – Biography – 2009)

C. Wright Mills Award

• Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Medicine and Society) by Steven Epstein (Winner – 1996)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

• Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel (Holy Men and Women)

CCBC Choices

• And Still We Rise: Interviews With 50 Black Role Models by Barbara A. Reynolds (1988)
• Muckrakers: How Writers Exposed Scandal, Inspired Reform, and Invented Investigative Journalism by Ann Bausum (2008)
• Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Inve by Ann Bausum (2008)

Children's Favorites Awards

• Alice Alone by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Selection – 2002)

Christian Science Monitor Best Book

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (Nonfiction – 2006)
• John Adams by David McCullough (2001)
• The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind (Nonfiction – 2006)
• Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal (Nonfiction – 2004)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America by William Martin (No. 10 - tie – 1997)

Chronicle of Higher Education Most Influential Book of the Last 20 Years

• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

CLMP Firecracker Award

• The Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph Nader (Politics – 2001)
• The Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph Nader (Politics – 2001)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• And the Band Played on: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (Silver Medal – Nonfiction – 1987)
• Our Vietnam/Nuoc Viet Ta: A History of the War 1954-1975 by A.J. Langguth (Gold Medal – Nonfiction – 2000)

Cornelius Ryan Award

• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (1989)
• Our Vietnam/Nuoc Viet Ta: A History of the War 1954-1975 by A.J. Langguth (2000)

Costa Book Awards

• Gladstone by Roy Jenkins (Winner – Biography – 1995)

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

• The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh