Lists of Bests: jab235's "Books I've read in 2006" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/16849 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:38:46 GMT en-us 0 50 67 50 0 More Simple Chess: Moving on from the basics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355612 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355612"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1857443438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114829463_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Emms</div> Ladykiller http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221591 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221591"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0887621775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Gill</div> Solomon Gursky Was Here http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1569287 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mordecai Richler</div> A Burnt-Out Case (Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61129 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61129"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140185399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676350_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Drowned World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33274 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33274"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857988833.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.G. Ballard</div> Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</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> Monsignor Quixote http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18002 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Middle Passage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/184541 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/184541"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375708340.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424529.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038572179X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510865 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083831978_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Origin Of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335331 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335331"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0785819118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312265050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521 <div id="position">17</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> Hangover Square (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70249 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70249"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60599504_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Hamilton</div> The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355636 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355636"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0609810049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056460449_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Reding</div> Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984453 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984453"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/4770029160.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</div> Towelhead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638463 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638463"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743285123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alicia Erian</div> Dark Age Ahead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/353344 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/353344"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076706.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> Collected Shorter Plays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139341 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802150551.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6395 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Klein</div> If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94264 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94264"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767904435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim O'Brien</div> Black Coffee Blues http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33639 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33639"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1880985551.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056534228_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Rollins</div> Do I Come Here Often? (Black Coffee Blues, Pt. 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54449 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54449"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1880985616.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056534228_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Rollins</div> Suicide Casanova http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169019 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169019"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1888451661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Nersesian</div> The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19097 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19097"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776117.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465034_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pico Iyer</div> Fight Club: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Green Hills of Africa (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1036723 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1036723"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068484463X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192867_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Into the Wild http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10301 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10301"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385486804.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439259_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6, Special Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1683608 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1683608"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747581428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125529145_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/182106 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/182106"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039423.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Voltaire</div> Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225004 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225004"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805079122.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66860665_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noam Chomsky</div> The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163931 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163931"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594481776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Lullaby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10570 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385722192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098727946_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Disgrace (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition) (Penguin Essential Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336794 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82619 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275 <div id="position">42</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> Running with Scissors: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961222 <div id="position">43</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> Atomised http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111041 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111041"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099283360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Houellebecq</div> The Sexual Life of Catherine M. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24162 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802139868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491873_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Catherine Millet</div> The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/470776 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/470776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Siddhartha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1083137 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1083137"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553102664.01-A1X90SEW99DK3G._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1079295949_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311535 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Koren Zailckas</div> Decline and Fall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7162 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134590351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Post Office http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26965 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26965"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0876850867.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118441090_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bukowski</div>