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# "Us and Them": OCLC Top 1000 titles on other lists

We compared the OCLC Top 1000 list with several well-known awards and commonly cited lists. The 354 listed below are on the OCLC list plus one other. More information about the prizes appears below the table.

Work | OCLC 2005 Ranking | Prizes | PW Bestsellers | Big Read | Burt 100 | NEA Teachers | Random House Judges
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner | 625 |  |  |  | 17 |  |
Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith | 509 |  |  |  |  |  | 46
Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton | 253 |  | X |  | 61 |  | 58
Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone |  |  | X |  |  |  |
Airframe, by Michael Crichton | 1096 |  | X |  |  |  |
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst | 887 |  |  |  |  | 19 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll | 10 |  |  | 30 |  |  |
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum | 678 |  | X |  |  |  |
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque | 242 |  | X | 141 |  |  |
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren | 384 |  |  |  |  |  | 36
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy | 1020 | NB |  |  |  |  |
All Things Bright and Beautiful, by James Herriot |  |  | X |  |  |  |
All Things Wise and Wonderful, by James Herriot | 932 |  | X |  |  |  |
Ambassadors, by Henry James | 443 |  |  |  | 18 |  | 27
Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish | 830 |  |  |  |  | 84 |
American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser | 430 |  |  |  | 46 |  | 16
Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton | 1150 |  | X |  |  |  |
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt | 416 | NBC, P | X |  |  |  |
Animal Farm, by George Orwell | 137 |  |  | 46 |  |  | 31
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy | 67 |  |  | 54 | 13 |  |
Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery | 128 |  |  | 41 |  | 70 |
Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis | 706 |  | X |  |  |  |
Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse To the Magic Kingdoms, by Christopher Finch | 1126 |  | X |  |  |  |
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner | 707 |  |  |  |  |  | 35
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand | 834 |  | X |  |  |  |
Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X | 351 |  |  |  |  |  | 51
Autobiography, by Mark Twain | 790 |  |  |  |  |  | 43
Awakening, by Kate Chopin | 974 |  |  |  | 63 |  |
Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis | 437 |  | X |  |  |  |
Bell for Adano, by John Hersey |  |  | X |  |  |  |
Beloved, by Toni Morrison | 306 | P |  |  | 45 |  |
Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni | 1151 |  |  |  | 87 |  |
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell | 78 |  |  | 58 |  |  |
Black Boy, by Richard Wright | 567 |  | X |  |  |  | 13
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens | 217 |  |  | 79 | 12 |  |
Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner | 1082 |  |  |  |  | 31 |
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley | 205 |  |  | 87 |  |  | 5
Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler | 799 | P |  |  |  |  |
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh | 653 |  |  | 45 | 74 |  | 80
Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder | 422 |  | X |  |  |  | 37
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson | 394 | N |  |  |  | 15 |
Bridges of Madison County, by Robert James Waller | 680 |  | X |  |  |  |
Brief History of Time, by S. W. Hawking | 467 |  | X |  |  |  |
Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky | 82 |  |  |  | 5 |  |
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin | 860 |  |  |  |  | 20 |
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis | 1007 | N, CSK |  |  |  |  |
Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann | 638 |  |  |  | 35 |  |
Burden of Proof, by Scott Turow | 1140 |  | X |  |  |  |
Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink | 495 | N |  |  |  |  |
Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry | 597 | N |  |  |  |  |
Call of the Wild, by Jack London | 74 |  |  |  |  |  | 88
Candide, by Voltaire | 144 |  |  |  | 79 |  |
Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina | 457 |  |  |  |  | 93 |
Cardinal of the Kremlin, by Tom Clancy | 937 |  | X |  |  |  |
Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss | 444 |  |  |  |  | 4 |
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller | 325 |  |  | 11 |  |  | 7
Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger | 347 |  |  | 15 | 94 |  | 64
Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield | 730 |  | X |  |  |  |
Chamber, by John Grisham | 668 |  | X |  |  |  |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl | 391 |  |  | 35 |  | 21 |
Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White | 219 |  |  | 170 |  | 1 |
Chesapeake, by James A. Michener | 1158 |  | X |  |  |  |
Chosen, by Chaim Potok | 899 |  | X |  |  |  |
Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens | 24 |  |  | 47 |  |  |
Cinderella, by Charles Perrault and Marcia Brown (illustrator) | 618 | C |  |  |  |  |
Clan of the Cave Bear , by Jean M. Auel | 540 |  |  | 92 |  |  |
Clear and Present Danger, by Tom Clancy | 708 |  | X |  |  |  |
Client, by John Grisham | 724 |  | X |  |  |  |
Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess | 813 |  |  |  |  |  | 65
Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom | 1090 |  | X |  |  |  |
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier | 628 | NB | X |  |  |  |
Color Purple, by Alice Walker | 345 | P |  | 136 |  |  |
Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron |  | P |  |  |  |  |
Contact, by Carl Sagan |  |  | X |  |  |  |
Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch | 608 |  | X |  |  |  |
Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas | 168 |  |  | 44 |  |  |
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky | 72 |  |  | 60 | 22 |  |
Curious George, by H. A. Rey | 580 |  |  |  |  | 75 |
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens | 71 |  |  | 34 |  |  |
Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth |  |  | X | 109 |  |  |
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol | 650 |  |  |  | 33 |  |
Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary | 534 | N |  |  |  |  |
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather | 390 |  |  |  |  |  | 61
Debt of Honor, by Tom Clancy | 1143 |  | X |  |  |  |
Dicey's Song, by Cynthia Voigt | 822 | N |  |  |  |  |
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak | 277 |  | X |  |  |  |
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes | 11 |  |  |  | 1 |  |
Door in the Wall, by Marguerite De Angeli | 1024 | N |  |  |  |  |
Dracula, by Bram Stoker | 75 |  |  | 104 | 97 |  |
Dream of the Red Chamber, by Xueqin Cao | 874 |  |  |  | 50 |  |
Dune, by Frank Herbert | 738 |  |  | 39 |  |  |
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck | 318 |  | X | 133 |  |  |
Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams | 458 |  | X |  |  |  | 1
Elements of Style, by William Strunk | 211 |  |  |  |  |  | 21
Emma, by Jane Austen | 84 |  |  | 40 | 11 |  |
English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje |  | MB |  |  |  |  |
Etiquette, by Emily Post | 770 |  | X |  |  |  |
Executive Orders, by Tom Clancy | 1142 |  | X |  |  |  |
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy | 241 |  |  | 48 |  |  |
Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway | 184 |  |  |  | 73 |  | 74
Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev | 201 |  |  |  | 43 |  |
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce | 448 |  |  |  | 26 |  | 77
Firm, by John Grisham | 520 |  | X |  |  |  |
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway | 262 |  | X |  |  |  |
Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy | 542 |  |  | 123 |  |  |
Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 43 |  |  | 171 | 92 |  |
French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles |  |  | X |  |  |  |
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg | 546 | N |  |  |  |  |
Germinal, by Émile Zola | 780 |  |  |  | 66 |  |
Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh | 681 |  | X |  |  |  |
Giver, by Lois Lowry | 532 | N |  |  |  | 37 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin | 886 |  |  |  |  |  | 39
Godfather, by Mario Puzo | 1081 |  | X | 91 |  |  |
Golden Bough, by Sir James George Frazer | 195 |  |  |  |  |  | 90
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell | 215 |  | X | 21 | 100 |  |
Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck | 239 |  | X |  |  |  |
Good-bye Mr. Chips, by James Hilton | 840 |  | X |  |  |  |
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown | 363 |  |  |  |  | 11 |
Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck | 101 |  | X | 29 | 54 |  | 10
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens | 51 |  |  | 17 | 16 |  |
Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 110 |  |  | 43 | 20 |  | 2
Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson | 980 |  |  |  |  | 78 |
Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw | 759 |  | X |  |  |  |
Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss | 702 |  |  |  |  | 3 |
Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman | 1070 |  |  |  |  |  | 16
Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood | 754 |  |  | 131 |  |  |
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh | 856 |  |  |  |  | 85 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling | 263 |  |  | 23 |  |  |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J. K. Rowling | 350 |  |  | 5 |  |  |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J. K. Rowling | 220 |  |  | 22 |  |  |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling | 304 |  |  | 24 |  |  |
Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen | 367 |  |  |  |  | 12 |
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers | 526 |  |  |  |  |  | 17
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad | 153 |  |  | 158 |  |  | 67
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri | 118 |  |  | 189 |  | 95 |
Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley | 981 | N |  |  |  |  |
Herzog, by Saul Bellow |  |  | X |  | 65 |  |
Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams | 1033 |  |  | 4 |  |  |
Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien | 57 |  |  | 25 |  | 42 |
Holes, by Louis Sachar | 515 | NB, N |  | 83 |  |  |
Horse and his Boy, by C. S. Lewis | 442 |  |  |  |  | 60 |
Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans | 700 |  | X | 195 |  |  |
Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 231 |  | X | 128 | 99 |  |
House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne | 559 |  |  |  |  | 30 |
House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton | 388 |  | X |  |  |  | 69
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie | 566 |  | X |  |  |  |
Howards End, by E. M. Forster | 744 |  |  |  |  |  | 38
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain | 7 |  |  |  | 14 |  |
I Heard the Owl Call My Name, by Margaret Craven | 922 |  | X |  |  |  |
Iacocca, by Lee Iacocca | 925 |  | X |  |  |  |
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote | 626 |  | X |  |  |  | 96
In Search of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters | 451 |  | X |  |  |  |
Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks | 808 |  |  |  |  | 33 |
Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells | 821 |  |  |  | 25 |  |
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison | 369 |  |  |  |  |  | 19
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell | 572 | N |  |  |  | 34 |
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson | 666 | N |  |  |  |  |
James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl | 462 |  |  | 145 |  | 39 |
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë | 30 |  |  | 10 | 52 |  |
John Adams, by David G. McCullough | 789 | P |  |  |  |  |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach | 971 |  | X | 179 |  |  |
Joy of Cooking, by Irma Rombauer | 269 |  | X |  |  |  |
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy | 267 |  |  | 111 |  |  |
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George | 599 | N |  |  |  |  |
Jungle, by Upton Sinclair | 209 |  | X |  |  |  |
Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara | 549 | P |  |  |  |  |
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling | 246 |  |  | 159 |  |  | 78
King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry | 714 | N |  |  |  |  |
Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl | 783 |  | X |  |  |  |
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence | 207 |  | X |  |  |  |
Lake Wobegon Days, by Garrison Keillor | 774 |  | X |  |  |  |
Last Battle, by C. S. Lewis | 445 |  |  |  |  | 60 |
Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper | 87 |  |  |  | 88 |  |
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo | 70 |  |  | 114 | 90 |  |
Light in August, by William Faulkner | 674 |  |  |  |  |  | 54
Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein | 972 |  | X |  |  | 86 |
Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel | 587 |  | X |  |  |  |
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis | 189 |  |  | 9 |  | 13 |
Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper | 450 |  |  |  |  | 73 |
Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 499 |  |  |  |  | 40 |
Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 512 |  |  |  |  | 28 |
Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton | 1099 | C |  |  |  | 81 |
Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 148 |  |  | 180 |  |  |
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott | 62 |  |  | 18 |  | 47 |
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov | 527 |  | X | 178 | 47 |  | 4
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry | 930 | P |  |  |  |  |
Lord God Made Them All, by James Herriot | 1026 |  | X |  |  |  |
Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad | 122 |  |  |  |  |  | 85
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding | 238 |  |  | 70 |  |  | 41
Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien | 8 |  |  | 1 |  |  |
Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore | 501 |  |  | 166 |  |  |
Lost Horizon, by James Hilton | 749 |  | X |  |  |  |
Lost World, by Michael Crichton | 954 |  | X |  |  |  |
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez | 634 |  |  | 97 |  |  |
Loves Music, Loves to Dance, by Mary Higgins Clark | 950 |  | X |  |  |  |
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert | 64 |  |  |  | 7 |  |
Madame Curie, by Eve Curie | 1044 |  | X |  |  |  |
Madeline's Rescue, by Ludwig Bemelmans | 1162 | C |  |  |  |  |
Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann | 417 |  |  |  | 9 |  |
Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis | 362 |  |  |  |  | 60 |
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis | 270 |  | X |  |  |  | 68
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey | 432 | C |  |  |  | 61 |
Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett | 1137 |  |  |  |  |  | 56
Mammoth Hunters, by Jean M. Auel | 659 |  | X |  |  |  |
Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli | 843 | N |  |  |  | 35 |
Matilda, by Roald Dahl | 941 |  |  | 74 |  | 54 |
Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy | 212 |  |  | 115 |  |  |
Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming our Lives, by John Naisbitt | 1094 |  | X |  |  |  |
Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler | 440 |  | X |  |  |  |
Middlemarch, by George Eliot | 206 |  |  | 27 | 8 |  |
Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant | 1074 | N |  |  |  |  |
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville | 34 |  |  | 161 | 6 |  |
Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard Atwater | 1084 |  |  |  |  | 87 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, by Robert C. O'Brien | 836 | N |  |  |  | 46 |
My Ántonia, by Willa Cather | 176 |  |  |  | 59 |  |
Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco | 873 |  | X | 174 |  |  |
Native Son, by Richard Wright | 426 |  |  |  | 80 |  | 20
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell | 139 |  |  | 8 | 86 |  | 13
Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad | 742 |  |  |  | 44 |  | 47
Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry | 500 | N |  |  |  | 45 |
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham | 366 |  |  |  |  |  | 66
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck | 179 |  | X | 52 |  |  |
Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway | 160 |  | X | 173 |  |  |
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens | 65 |  |  | 182 |  |  |
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac | 386 |  |  | 90 | 91 |  | 55
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey | 308 |  |  | 157 |  |  |
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez | 314 |  |  | 32 | 19 |  |
Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen | 949 |  | X |  |  |  |
Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen | 403 |  |  |  |  |  | 58
Outline of History, by H. G. Wells | 615 |  | X |  |  |  |
Paradise, by Toni Morrison | 864 |  | X |  |  |  |
Partner, by John Grisham | 827 |  | X |  |  |  |
Passage to India, by E. M. Forster | 344 |  |  |  | 64 |  | 25
Passion for Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters | 991 |  | X |  |  |  |
Patriot Games, by Tom Clancy | 891 |  | X |  |  |  |
Pelican Brief, by John Grisham | 623 |  | X |  |  |  |
Père Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac | 234 |  |  |  | 36 |  |
Persuasion, by Jane Austen | 370 |  |  | 38 |  |  |
Pet Sematary, by Stephen King |  |  | X |  |  |  |
Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster | 888 |  |  |  |  | 63 |
Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens | 173 |  |  | 106 | 76 |  |
Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde | 167 |  |  | 118 |  |  |
Plains of Passage, by Jean M. Auel | 911 |  | X |  |  |  |
Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver | 1002 |  |  | 125 |  |  |
Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg | 912 | C |  |  |  | 2 |
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James | 222 |  |  |  | 29 |  |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce | 169 |  |  |  | 37 |  | 3
Power of Positive Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale | 577 |  | X |  |  |  |
Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow | 1013 |  | X |  |  |  |
Pretend You Don't See Her, by Mary Higgins Clark | 1063 |  | X |  |  |  |
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen | 32 |  |  | 2 | 41 |  |
Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia, by C. S. Lewis | 722 |  |  |  |  | 60 |
Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy | 1166 |  | X |  |  |  |
Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy | 311 |  | X |  |  |  |
Rabbit Hill, by Robert Lawson |  | N |  |  |  |  |
Ragtime, by E. L. Doctorow |  |  | X |  |  |  | 86
Rainbow, by D. H. Lawrence | 1110 |  |  |  |  |  | 48
Rainmaker, by John Grisham | 928 |  | X |  |  |  |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary | 672 |  |  |  |  | 57 |
Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham | 996 |  | X |  |  |  |
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier | 284 |  | X | 14 |  |  |
Red and the Black, by Stendhal | 191 |  |  |  | 31 |  |
Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane | 39 |  |  |  | 53 |  |
Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy | 841 |  | X |  |  |  |
Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust | 136 |  |  |  | 4 |  |
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer | 828 |  | X |  |  |  |
Road Ahead, by Bill Gates | 1127 |  | X |  |  |  |
Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas | 1089 |  | X |  |  |  |
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe | 21 |  |  |  | 77 |  |
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor | 373 | N |  |  |  | 41 |
Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf | 963 |  |  |  |  |  | 4
Room With a View, by E. M. Forster | 573 |  |  |  |  |  | 79
Roots, by Alex Haley | 760 |  | X |  |  |  |
Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown | 788 |  |  |  |  | 82 |
Runaway Jury, by John Grisham | 570 |  | X |  |  |  |
Russia House, by John Le Carré | 1134 |  | X |  |  |  |
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan | 552 | N |  |  |  | 32 |
Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 31 |  |  |  | 42 |  |
Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally | 584 | MB |  |  |  |  |
Second World War, by Winston Churchill | 746 |  |  |  |  |  | 57
Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett | 98 |  |  | 51 |  | 29 |
Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher | 1060 |  |  | 50 |  |  |
Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | 673 | N |  |  |  | 24 |
Shipping News, by Annie Proulx | 904 | NB, P |  | 164 |  |  |
Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare | 1010 |  |  |  |  | 97 |
Silas Marner, by George Eliot | 158 |  |  | 184 |  |  |
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson | 539 |  |  |  |  |  | 5
Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis | 503 |  |  |  |  | 60 |
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser | 214 |  |  |  |  |  | 33
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut | 528 |  |  |  |  |  | 18
Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox | 732 | N |  |  |  |  |
Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats | 486 | C |  |  |  | 64 |
Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence | 232 |  |  | 190 |  |  | 9
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron | 1152 |  | X |  |  |  | 96
Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 713 |  |  |  | 78 |  |
Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois | 359 |  |  |  |  |  | 31
Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner | 228 |  |  |  | 23 |  | 6
Sounder, by William Howard Armstrong | 524 | N |  |  |  |  |
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carré | 804 |  | X |  |  |  |
Story of Mankind, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon | 734 | N | X |  |  |  |
Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant | 583 |  | X |  |  |  |
Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward |  |  |  |  |  |  | 70
Stranger, by Albert Camus | 235 |  |  |  | 58 |  |
Street Lawyer, by John Grisham | 866 |  | X |  |  |  |
Stuart Little, by E. B. White | 498 |  |  |  |  | 89 |
Study of History, by Arnold J. Toynbee | 298 |  | X |  |  |  | 45
Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy | 953 |  | X |  |  |  |
Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Cromer Byars | 715 | N |  |  |  |  |
Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway | 266 |  |  |  |  |  | 45
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig | 689 | C |  |  |  | 66 |
Tale of Genji, by Lady Murasaki | 667 |  |  |  | 10 |  |
Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter | 132 |  |  |  |  | 67 |
Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens | 42 |  |  | 63 |  |  |
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume | 776 |  |  |  |  | 56 |
Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 378 |  |  |  |  |  | 28
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy | 111 |  |  | 26 | 34 |  |
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston | 473 |  |  |  | 83 |  |
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe | 664 |  |  |  | 56 |  |
Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough | 816 |  | X | 64 |  |  |
Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley | 853 | P |  |  |  |  |
Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas | 80 |  |  |  | 98 |  |
Tin Drum, by Günter Grass | 1015 |  |  |  | 39 |  |
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee | 146 |  | X | 6 |  |  |
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf | 557 |  |  |  | 21 |  | 15
Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell |  |  |  |  |  |  | 91
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding | 89 |  |  |  | 15 |  |
Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck | 762 |  | X |  |  |  |
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson | 26 |  |  | 36 |  |  |
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith | 439 |  | X |  |  |  |
Trial, by Franz Kafka | 319 |  |  |  | 51 |  |
Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne | 309 |  |  |  | 32 |  |
Truman, by David G. McCullough | 1048 | P |  |  |  |  |
Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White | 975 |  |  |  |  | 58 |
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt | 419 |  |  |  |  | 68 |
Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom | 767 |  | X |  |  |  |
Ulysses, by James Joyce | 134 |  |  | 78 | 3 |  | 1
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe | 59 |  |  |  | 89 |  |
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington | 693 |  |  |  |  |  | 3
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray | 147 |  |  | 122 | 24 |  |
Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams Bianco | 154 |  |  |  |  | 22 |
Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle | 371 |  |  | 199 |  | 8 |
Virginian, by Owen Wister | 346 |  | X |  |  |  |
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C. S. Lewis | 447 |  |  |  |  | 60 |
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting |  | N |  |  |  |  |
Waiting To Exhale, by Terry McMillan |  |  | X |  |  |  |
Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech | 1032 | N |  |  |  | 90 |
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy | 93 |  |  | 20 | 2 |  |
War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells | 310 |  |  | 194 |  |  |
Watership Down, by Richard Adams | 663 |  | X | 42 |  |  |
Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler | 349 |  |  |  |  |  | 12
Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, by David Bernard Guralnik | 1005 |  | X |  |  |  |
Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin | 1102 | N |  |  |  |  |
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner | 592 |  | X |  |  |  |
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls | 797 |  |  |  |  | 9 |
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak | 412 | C |  |  |  | 5 |
While My Pretty One Sleeps, by Mary Higgins Clark | 962 |  | X |  |  |  |
Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman | 750 | N |  |  |  |  |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, by Verna Aardema, Leo Dillon, and Diane Dillon (illustrator) | 959 | C |  |  |  |  |
Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame | 73 |  |  | 16 |  |  |
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson | 303 |  |  |  |  |  | 24
Wings of the Dove, by Henry James | 870 |  |  |  |  |  | 26
Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne | 142 |  |  | 7 |  | 30 |
Winter of our Discontent, by John Steinbeck | 1018 |  | X |  |  |  |
Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare | 565 | N |  |  |  | 91 |
Without Remorse, by Tom Clancy | 1130 |  | X |  |  |  |
Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum | 54 |  |  |  |  | 69 |
Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins | 1006 |  |  | 77 | 95 |  |
Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence | 423 |  |  |  | 30 |  | 49
Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle | 257 | N |  |  |  | 23 |
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë | 28 |  |  | 12 | 38 |  |

## Key to prizes

MB : Man Booker Prize | The Man Booker Prize was founded in 1969 by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company. Administered by Book Trust in the United Kingdom, this award is given to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa.
NB : National Book Award | For over fifty years the National Book Awards, now administered by the National Book Foundation, have recognized books of exceptional merit written by Americans.
NBC : National Book Critics Circle Award | The National Book Critics Circle consists of more than 700 book reviewers. Since its founding in 1974, the NBCC's centerpiece has been annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. In addition, each year the NBCC awards the Ivan Sandrof Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and salutes one member of the Circle with the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
P: Pulitzer Prize | Since 1917, the goal of the Pulitzer Prizes has been to offer an incentive to excellence in American arts and letters. Today the Pulitzer Prize Board awards a total of 21 annual prizes in journalism, literature, poetry, drama, and music.
C: Caldecott Medal | The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
N: Newbery Medal | The Newbery Medal honors the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The medal was established in 1922 and is presented annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States.
CSK: Coretta Scott King Award | Commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and honoring his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination in continuing the work for peace and world brotherhood, the Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by a task force of the American Library Association. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream.