Lists of Bests: harryrappaport's "Books I've enjoyed" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/11483 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:52:55 GMT en-us 0 50 105 50 0 The Shadow of the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3757 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3757"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143034901.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131148752_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carlos Ruiz Zafon</div> Suite Française http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/896605 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/896605"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400044731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57219386_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Nemirovsky</div> Absurdistan: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/181945 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/181945"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400061962.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57221044_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Shteyngart</div> Underworld: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19456 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684848155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> A Canticle for Leibowitz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218054 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218054"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060892994.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter M. Miller Jr.</div> Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6656 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6656"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312890176.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44810229_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6657 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6657"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312890184.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44586134_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> Mao: The Unknown Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41686 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679422714.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121450351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jung Chang</div> The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1062238 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1062238"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/047004585X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Dershowitz</div> View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror And Reason in the Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2037010 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2037010"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060839120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haim Harari</div> Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1140533 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1140533"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345444051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056437137_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur C. Clarke</div> A Tale of Love and Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67913 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67913"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603252X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amos Oz</div> The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584324 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584324"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374292795.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> Acts of Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993763 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993763"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Caputo</div> The Traveler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1062225 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1062225"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400079292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Twelve Hawks</div> Starship Troopers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12879 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12879"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441783589.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136783 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136783"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195161998.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123232344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niall Shanks</div> A Wizard of Earthsea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1382939 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54838 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54838"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424442.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7797 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345404475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44916704_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163931 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163931"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594481776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Saturday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div> The Man in the High Castle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18853 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18853"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679740678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56210020_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336282 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336282"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060938102.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irvin Yalom</div> Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8843 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375421513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8565 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8565"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374517886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Bashevis Singer</div> History of Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26428 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26428"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0847826465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11864 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11864"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425109720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056442082_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Clancy</div> Hitchcock (Paladin Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1621310 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Truffaut</div> The Hunt for Red October (Special 15th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/313868 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/313868"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425172902.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Clancy</div> The Case for Israel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50477 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50477"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0471679526.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Dershowitz</div> The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9297 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9297"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1106777421_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Greene</div> The Skinner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2064575 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Art: A New History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1996745 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1996745"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0297829289.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Johnson</div> The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1468 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060958332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> Lying on the Couch: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1262 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1262"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060928514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irvin D. Yalom</div> Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179263 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179263"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439887453.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> The Risen Empire: Book One of Succession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/255600 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/255600"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/076534467X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Westerfeld</div> Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future (The Terry Lectures Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422763 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422763"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300083785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Hartman</div> If I Get to Five: What Children Can Teach Us about Courage and Character (Living Planet Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2097912 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2097912"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805075178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred Epstein</div> The Da Vinci Code http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227304 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227304"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307277674.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Brown</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">44</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 Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winfried Georg Sebald</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8211 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8211"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345461924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael B. Oren</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586590 <div id="position">49</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> Three Adventure Novels: She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14611 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14611"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486206432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. Rider Haggard</div>