Lists of Bests: bloomsday616's "100 Books to Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/11423 100 books I should have read, or only read parts of, that I need to get through before I die. Mostly classics, some history and philosophy, all worthwhile reads. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:33:23 GMT en-us 0 50 104 50 0 In the Land of White Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/262639 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/262639"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067978361X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valerian Albanov</div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library MM) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/251426 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/251426"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812972147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Nibelungenlied http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614632 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614632"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1598188399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Traditional</div> The Sagas of Icelanders: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (World of the Sagas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3401 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3401"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141000031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494283 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494283"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192836773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludovico Ariosto</div> The Confessions of St. Augustine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56943 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56943"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800787242.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine</div> Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1993079 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1993079"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521464757.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by St. Augustine</div> The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400097029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9942 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9942"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385031386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439009_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Barrett</div> The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250148 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0819562378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacques Barzun</div> The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250145 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250145"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060102306.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacques Barzun</div> Goethe and the novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1993089 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric A Blackall</div> The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/511088 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/511088"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192836919.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532871_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Boccaccio</div> The Master and Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1411683056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192803611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10876 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10876"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10875 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10875"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039331507X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> A Dead Man in Deptford http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69260 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69260"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786711523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/640749 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/640749"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840401.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Gordon Byron</div> The Baron in the Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156106809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18765 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18765"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733841.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</div> Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> The Riverside Chaucer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11299 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11299"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395290317.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440183_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Temptation to Exist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453049 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226106756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426206_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Cioran</div> Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/640779 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/640779"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Slow Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166677 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166677"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61521268_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18494 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18494"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679433139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298140 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298140"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676340 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838687.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> Foucault's Pendulum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80116 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80116"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345418271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82362 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82362"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364061 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364061"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500340.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> The Mill on the Floss: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contemporary Reactions Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624476 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624476"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393963322.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Middlemarch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3531 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3531"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141804513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Unsühnbar (Kritische Texte und Deutungen / Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1993116 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach</div> A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/126609 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/126609"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192836226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Howards End (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206600 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206600"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393970116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538307_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19990 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19990"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0691013551.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056466939_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Frank</div> Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal , 1850-1859 (Dostoevsky (Frank, Joseph)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20046 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691065764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Frank</div> Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Dostoevsky (Frank, Joseph)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20047 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20047"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0691066523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056467284_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Frank</div> Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/192168 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/192168"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691015872.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Frank</div> Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/185172 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/185172"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691115699.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Frank</div> The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3243 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3243"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069103656X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45091743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 9) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388814 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691043442.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056467160_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Hunger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970032 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970032"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486431681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Knut Hamsun</div>