Lists of Bests: Christopher's "Personal Reading List 2007" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/17355 This was a good guide for me last year, so maybe planning ahead will help me get even further. These things never pan out as planned, though. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:41:16 GMT en-us 0 50 56 50 0 The Search http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008709 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> The Cost of Living http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73144 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73144"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340072 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340072"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420258.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46039358_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Waiting: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9130 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9130"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ha Jin</div> Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431279 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431279"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565848136.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120769959_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maude Barlow</div> The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones (BCP Spanish Texts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33195 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33195"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853995908.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> The Garneau Block http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2264136 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2264136"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0771009887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Todd Babiak</div> He Drown She in the Sea: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1082843 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1082843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shani Mootoo</div> The In-Between World of Vikram Lall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76805 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76805"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076560.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M.G. Vassanji</div> The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48614 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312327005.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irshad Manji</div> Rogue Diamonds: Northern Riches On Dene Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2377788 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2377788"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0295984198.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1086255578_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Bielawski</div> Sozaboy (Longman African Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16463 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16463"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0582236991.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056457321_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Saro-Wiwa</div> Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177597 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177597"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400064708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirin Ebadi</div> Soul Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1383 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1383"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060936231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gao Xingjian</div> Development as Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10531 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10531"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720270.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amartya Sen</div> Shalimar the Clown: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970067 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435211 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435211"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679313192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Off</div> A Blade of Grass: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/450604 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/450604"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060554274.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis DeSoto</div> A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/439118 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/439118"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297333X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yiyun Li</div> Selections from the Prison Notebooks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89451 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/071780397X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonio Gramsci</div> The Mixquiahuala Letters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/701373 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/701373"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385420137.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ana Castillo</div> The Inheritance of Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27693 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27693"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/089608650X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vandana Shiva</div> The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26547 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26547"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0862329655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vandana Shiva</div> Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1995282 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1995282"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670034851.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129949951_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abolqasem Ferdowsi</div> Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28928 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28928"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003468X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1526742 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernesto Che Guevara</div> A Small Place http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51947 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51947"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374527075.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jamaica Kincaid</div> Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1461548 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1461548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844670201.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52138314_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Romila Thapar</div> Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/353542 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/353542"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099452243.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dai Sijie</div> The Bluest Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962238 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962238"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452287065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1028071 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Wilson</div> Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2414830 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Monbiot</div> The Magic Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414090 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Londonstani http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324800 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324800"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56619396_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gautam Malkani</div> Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971105 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971105"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046268X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576796 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576796"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328643.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Vaillant</div> Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1550377 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1550377"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393322750.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Tierney</div> The People's Act of Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49418 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49418"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841957305.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Meek</div> Paradiso. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919937 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919937"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/3518392085.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130817598_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Lezama Lima</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151009988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (New Canadian Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/101484 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/101484"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/077109969X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alistair Macleod</div> Obasan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10232 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385468865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43049087_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joy Kogawa</div> China's Water Crisis (Voices of Asia) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431238 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431238"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891936271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37239704_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jun Ma</div> The Periodic Table (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2327217 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Primo Levi</div> The Prophet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/321884 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kahlil Gibran</div> Saturday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div>