Lists of Bests: alca911's "Reading List I (2006-...)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/10250 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:58:24 GMT en-us 0 50 188 50 0 The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533764_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312282990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> War Trash http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46252 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400075793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ha Jin</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1840010 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1840010"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1402568851.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038572179X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> The Crying of Lot 49 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1318 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414511_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Shipping News : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72880 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72880"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743225422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Proulx</div> Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/648185 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/648185"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297722X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Cordingly</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962239 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962239"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060597186.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077662732_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> London Fields http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18730 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18730"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679730346.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464896_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676619 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039830.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795798 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides) (Bloom's Guides) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982496 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982496"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0791077683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Picture of Dorian Gray (Whole Story) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17611 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17611"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067089494X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Moviegoer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060977493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586590 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586590"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0770430074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156028972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> The Alienist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16039 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16039"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553572997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caleb Carr</div> Practical Demonkeeping http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1108 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060735422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Moore</div> Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441013597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122692856_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63575 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63575"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553140949.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44924736_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48505 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486287599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437247.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422299_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30328 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/156478214X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flann O'Brien</div> The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6015 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6015"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312270828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Frisk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24068 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24068"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802132898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491831_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dennis Cooper</div> Notable American Women: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9212 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375713786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Marcus</div> Delta of Venus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/807716 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/807716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1579125743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anais Nin</div> Dog Soldiers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66383 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66383"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395860253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077689097_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Stone</div> The Razor's Edge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28924 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28924"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312265050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189440.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> A Bend in the River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961894 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V. S. Naipaul</div> A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130208.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491820_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> Drop City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9302 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9302"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727434.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> Birds of America: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5932 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5932"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312241224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorrie Moore</div> The Old Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002097 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The New Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002340 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Koran (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Bhagavad Gita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1931878 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eknath Easwaran (Editor)</div> Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19099 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19099"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lao Tsu</div> The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92157 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92157"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590302117.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gil Fronsdal</div> Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1848830 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Sobel</div>