Lists of Bests: chowmeyow's "My Favorite Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/16364 I love excellent fiction, beautiful memoirs (humor is also a big plus), and the greatest classics. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:42:49 GMT en-us 0 50 37 0 0 The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208448 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743298020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Setterfield</div> Life of Pi : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2099332 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yann Martel</div> I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22634 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/076790382X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1777798 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1777798"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307279464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42054 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767923227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">6</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> Cat's Cradle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038533348X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92648 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92648"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400080460.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Krouse Rosenthal</div> The Time Traveler's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139919 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139919"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E8LQP6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Dry: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6437 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6437"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312423799.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114237339_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> Running with Scissors: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961222 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961222"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425414.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> Magical Thinking: True Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58659 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58659"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312315953.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> Possible Side Effects http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86168 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86168"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312315961.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1346006 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1346006"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120073.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betty Smith</div> Me Talk Pretty One Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7099 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7099"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316776963.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56788728_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28472 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28472"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0965904830.01-A2LCTKH8WK9QB7._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8147 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8147"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345453743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> This Side of Paradise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2156285 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2156285"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39328854_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22758 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22758"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767915054.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122564564_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haven Kimmel</div> She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/198618 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/198618"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743284992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56233555_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haven Kimmel</div> Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143578 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143578"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691096120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45104140_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> Time and Again http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19229 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19229"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684801051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Finney</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">24</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> The Glass Castle: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074324754X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeannette Walls</div> Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179263 <div id="position">26</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> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618711651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141008253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> My Life in France http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/402922 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/402922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400043468.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Child</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Criss Cross (Newbery Medal Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/208264 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/208264"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060092726.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Rae Perkins</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> The Book Thief http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/195623 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/195623"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375831002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44908935_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Markus Zusak</div> The Phantom Tollbooth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11261 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394820371.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134089974_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norton Juster</div> Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72823 <div id="position">35</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> Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88777 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88777"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140714545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Bell Jar (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066760 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066760"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061148512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div>