Lists of Bests: David and John Major's 100 One-Night Reads http://www.listsofbests.com/list/12913 A list of titles suggested in the book "100 One-Night Reads" by David C. Major and John S. Major. These books are all supposedly short enough and interesting enough to be read in one night. Note: The authors chose two essays for Ralph Waldo Emerson, so the list contains more than 100 entries. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:57:56 GMT en-us 0 50 101 50 0 Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002919 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> A Coffin for Dimitrios http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/220079 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/220079"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Ambler</div> Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140186301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067538032_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kingsley Amis</div> The Education of Oscar Fairfax http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1493923 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1493923"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395739187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Auchincloss</div> Growing Up http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575595 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575595"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451168380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Baker</div> Wartime Lies: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/975558 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/975558"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449001172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Begley</div> Queen Lucia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994492 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994492"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1846376939.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37454965_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E F Benson</div> Hacks at Lunch: A Novel of the Literary Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124521 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Bringle</div> Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72823 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72823"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067960085X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962244 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962244"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0803214294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Chatwin</div> The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library MM) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1222143 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1222143"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812972589.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Van Tilburg Clark</div> Mr. Bridge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/140710 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/140710"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0865470545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056501824_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evan S. Connell</div> The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43141 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43141"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192801694.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Road from Coorain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18671 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18671"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679724362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Ker Conway</div> Microcosmographia Academica Being a Guide... http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124556 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.M. Cornford</div> Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22693 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22693"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767908198.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Dennis</div> The Ten Thousand Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/902892 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/902892"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159017013X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Dermout</div> Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East : Journeys in India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587907 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587907"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565121538.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Cameron Dimock</div> Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124568 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hugh Dundas</div> The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution (Nypl/Oup Lectures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55731 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55731"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195139224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Freeman J. Dyson</div> Write If You Get Work : The Best of Bob and Ray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124578 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Elliott</div> American Scholar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2820081 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Waldo Emerson</div> Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/415732 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/415732"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425468918.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Waldo Emerson</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4149 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4149"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156709902.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Flanner</div> Where Angels Fear to Tread http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18806 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18806"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679736344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> Name-dropping http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2038932 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2038932"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1854106597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124603 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124603"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HFTXR4.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> 84, Charing Cross Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140143505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132613952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helene Hanff</div> Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124618 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124618"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0299205541.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Hansen</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/457954 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/457954"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805065989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493008_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George V. Higgins</div> The Talented Mr.Ripley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55256 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099282879.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Highsmith</div> Lost Horizon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972342 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972342"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060594527.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Hilton</div> The Haunting of Hill House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2560 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2560"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140071083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Jackson</div> Washington Square http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/600795 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/600795"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Country of the Pointed Firs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1041336 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1041336"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846378834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65931772_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Orne Jewett</div> Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113983 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113983"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124724 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124724"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0262610035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George N. Kates</div> Snow Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44352 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44352"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679761047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yasunari Kawabata</div> Crossing the Line: A Blue Jacket's Odyssey in World War Two http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1297573 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1297573"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419622447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38846760_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alvin Kernan</div> Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372157 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372157"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593081928.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> The Bear Went Over the Mountain : A Novel (Owl Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813147 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1813147"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GQLCTG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63233013_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kotzwinkle</div> Barabbas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1258335 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1258335"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972544X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Par Lagerkvist</div> As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124776 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie Lee</div> A Sand County Almanac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106420 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106420"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195007778.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldo Leopold</div>