Lists of Bests: Rebecca wants to do crazy and amazing things's "List of 100 Must-Read Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13991 As per my goal on 43 Things (http://www.43things.com/things/view/127445), the 100 books I feel I must read. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:03:53 GMT en-us 0 50 27 0 0 The Voynich Manuscript: The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which Has Defied Interpretation for Centuries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1118230 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1118230"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/075286422X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100735231_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerry Kennedy</div> How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17057 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609809997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Herman</div> How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10205 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10205"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439195_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Cahill</div> Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28900 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28900"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1082393138_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2099289 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2099289"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BSFQXM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130544164_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Hart</div> The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51773 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51773"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508015.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Harr</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">7</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> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20115 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069401043X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Starkey</div> To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471391 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471391"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0894809393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail MacColl</div> The Book on the Bookshelf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9129 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9129"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Petroski</div> Oxford http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1696977 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1696977"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192801368.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423079_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Morris</div> War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3635 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3635"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003697.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128585545_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ross King</div> Animal Farm and 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3822 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3822"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151010269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70178 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060839783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24561 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24561"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805061762.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056492978_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas A. Basbanes</div> Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17047 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17047"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609809547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rita Golden Gelman</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Candide (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219671 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219671"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464870_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> Utopia: Thomas More http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76842 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76842"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300084293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas More</div> Les Misérables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Les Miserables, French Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41100 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41100"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2266083082.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61253250_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269129 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269129"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140445226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivan Turgenev</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/580589 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/580589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192827871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131146020_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Harry Potter Und Der Feuerkelch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/328625 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/328625"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3551551936.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110859085_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div>