Lists of Bests: Must Read list for writers http://www.listsofbests.com/list/16418 Most of these I believe are from Jon Franklin's "must read" list. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:43 GMT en-us 0 50 41 0 0 The Plague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44869057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521539773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> King Rat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12370 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12370"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440145465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056443323_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Clavell</div> The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2694 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2694"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140153179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Durrell</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">5</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> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Darkness at Noon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186057 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416540261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/767 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/767"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060531045.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Cruel Sea (Classics of War) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493896 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493896"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580800467.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056523520_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Monsarrat</div> The Last Hurrah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2333894 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwin O'Conner</div> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330830 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EVNTBM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> John Steinbeck's Masterpiece: The Grapes of Wrath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269756 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500240 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500240"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/210573 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/210573"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553126881.01-A321ED1DH8371D._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> Age of Innocence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185899 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185899"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844083500.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1226882 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madeleine Blais</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120445 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/073933364X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Slouching Towards Bethlehem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013547 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013547"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1892746557.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nina Coltart</div> At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1635313 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Harrington</div> Death in the Afternoon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978974 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978974"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068485922X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192876_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Hiroshima http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753278 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753278"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EB9VBE.01-A1KD1XFHXZAGYA._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138125803_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Hersey</div> The Last Cowboy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1855992 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Kramer</div> The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452272793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (Commonwealth Classics in Biography) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/472886 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Raymond Manchester</div> The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15847 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15847"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553345893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Manchester</div> Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2333933 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2333933"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743284763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57364590_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Tobin</div> Brave Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2333940 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2333940"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0803287682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122575394_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernie Pyle</div> The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a History of Nazi Germany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/255736 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/255736"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EA3XL4.01-A2AXN9TZNRHUH0._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981585 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981585"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Simon</div> The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535113 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535113"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416507787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cliff Stoll</div> Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13958 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13958"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Right Stuff http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016689 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016689"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1579124585.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Growing Up http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575595 <div id="position">34</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> The Good Times http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874472 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Baker</div> The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21615 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743493648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edna Buchanan</div> The Boys on the Bus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/546573 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/546573"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812968204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1058817041_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Crouse</div> The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1981055 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1981055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812977688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40852881_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gay Talese</div> A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1427403 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1427403"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684825236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122554669_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Bradlee</div> The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287781 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287781"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972205X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> News of a Kidnapping (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320409 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320409"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140269444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138678480_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div>