On this page I have collected links to some lists of books. Where easily done, I have listed a few of my favorite books under the link to give an idea of whats on the list. Follow the links for a full list!
AWARDS
Pulitzer Prize (fiction)
- Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction
- 1921: The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- 1940: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
- 2003: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2012 (nominee): Swamplandia!
Nobel Prize
- Link:
Man Booker Award
- Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Prize
National Book Award
- Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_National_Book_Award
Costa Award
- Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards
BEST BOOKS
Best of All Time
The Guardian’s 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
From Don Quixote to American Pastoral, take a look at the 100 greatest novels of all time
- Link - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction
- Tag – List: Guardian 100 Novels
Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century
The 100 Books of the Century is a grading of the books considered as the hundred best of the 20th century, drawn up in the spring of 1999 through a poll conducted by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.
All-TIME 100 Novels
A list of the 100 best novels written since 1923 (when TIME began publishing), and books written in English.
Best of Certain Years
OTHER LISTS
Cornell new student reading
- 2001: Guns Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
- 2002: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- 2003: Antigone, by Sophocles
- 2004: The Trial, by Franz Kafka
- 2005: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- 2006: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 2007: The Pickup, by Nadine Gordimer
- 2008: Lincoln at Gettysburg, by Garry Wills
- 2009: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- 2010: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip Dick
- 2011: Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow
- 2012: The Life Before Us, by Romain Gary
- Link: http://reading.cornell.edu/
Leslie’s Reading List
- http://www.lesliefornewyork.com/meet/reading
Downton Abby Inspired Reading
30 Lawyers, 30 Books