Awards search:501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)

War and Peace

by Count Leo Tolstoy
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
historical fiction, Modern Library, Russian literature, translated, Alexander I, French Invasion of Russia, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, Russia, Russian history, war
Status
Available
Call number
PG3366

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco
Paperback, 1984-06
Tags
Italian literature, translated, historical fiction, mystery, church history, Italy, Middle Ages, monastic and religious life, monastic libraries, monks, murder — 1 more, semiotics
Status
Available
Call number
PQ4865.C6

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice
Paperback, 1977-05
Tags
American literature, horror, Lestat, vampires
Series
The Vampire Chronicles (1)
Status
Available
Call number
PS3568.I265

Ringworld

by Larry Niven
Paperback, 1970-10
Tags
American literature, first edition, Hugo Award, Locus Award, Known Space, Nebula Award, science fiction, SF Masterworks, Seiun Award, signed, computer games — 2 more, aliens, big dumb object
Series
Known Space (8), Ringworld (1)
Status
Available
Call number
PS3564 .I9

ULYSSES: Complete and Unexpurgated with a Foreward By Morris L. Ernst and the Decision of the U.S. District Court Rendered By Judge John M. Woolsey

by James Joyce
Hardcover, 1961
Tags
Modern Library, coverless
Status
Available
Call number
PR6019.O9

Last and First Men

by W. Olaf Stapledon
Hardcover, 1932
Tags
British literature, coverless, future history, human beings, prophecies, science fiction, SF Masterworks
Series
Last Men (1)
Status
Available
Call number
PR6037.T18 L37

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

by Carlo Ginzburg
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Friuli, religious life and customs, translated, Italy, peasantry, heresies and heretics, Domenico Scandella, history of Christianity, history, religion, Christianity — 5 more, microhistory, cultural history, history of mentalities, popular religion, Counter-Reformation
Status
Available
Call number
BR877.F74 G5613

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury
Paperback, 1963
Tags
American literature, fix-up, science fiction, Mars, interplanetary voyages, Martians
Status
Available
Call number
PS3503.R167

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Hardcover, 1978
Status
Available
Call number
DC97.5

Islandia

by Austin Tappan Wright
Paperback, 1942
Tags
American literature, fantasy, Retro Hugo finalist, consuls
Series
Islandia (1)
Status
Available
Call number
PS3545 .R155

Inverted World

by Christopher Priest
Paperback, 1975
Tags
British literature, coverless, Hugo finalist, science fiction, SF Masterworks
Status
Available
Call number
PZ4.P9487 PR6066 .R55

Out of the Silent Planet

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 1978
Tags
British literature, Retro Hugo finalist, science fiction, Space Trilogy, college teachers, good and evil, aliens, linguists, philologists
Series
Space Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
PR6023.E926 O54

The Crystal World

by J. G. Ballard
Paperback, 2008
Tags
British literature, science fiction, Seiun Award
Series
Elemente (Erde)
Status
Available
Call number
PR6052 .A46
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