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July 8, 2002
Looking
for summer reading ideas? Try The Booklist Center. It offers 253 books in 63
categories.
Many
of the categories are comprised of award-winners, such as:
- Bancroft Prize for American History and Diplomacy, 1948-2000
- Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Mystery Novel, 1946-2002
- Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1953-1999
- National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1950-2001
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1918-2002
- Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Novel, 1954-2002
Others
are "best of" lists compiled by experts and associations, including:
- Down's 111 Books That Shaped Western Civilization
- The Environmentalist's Bookshelf's Top 40 Books
- The Great Books Foundation's Reading List
- Bernard Schwartz's Ten Greatest Law Books (from A Book of Legal Lists)
- The Federalist Papers (1778)
- Kent's Commentaries on American Law (1826-30)
- Story' Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833)
- Cooley's Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the American Union (1868)
- Langdell's Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts (1871)
- Holmes's The Common Law (1881)
- Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
- Frank's Law and the Modern Mind (1930)
- Carter's Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function (1907)
- Posner's Economic Analysis of Law (1973)
- Rex Stout's Ten Favorite Detective Novels
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