Lists of Bests: Tara's "Book short list" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/1883 My short list of books to read Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:10:47 GMT en-us 0 50 173 50 0 The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18452 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18452"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S85DQS28L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Boswell</div> Lilith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24311 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24311"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802860613.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George MacDonald</div> Phantastes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24310 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24310"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IfAmnz%2BaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Macdonald</div> The Scottish Chiefs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672965 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672965"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1893103218.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Porter</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4961 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4961"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AN2QEKM2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b51Xxj0qL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> El Cid (Oxford Classic Tales) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673027 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673027"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192741969.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geraldine McCaughrean</div> The Confessions of St. Augustine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56943 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56943"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31KWdHveqfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine</div> The City of God [The Modern Library] http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18574 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18574"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GdbsHB1BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saint Augustine</div> Meditations (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25566 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25566"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812968255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by MARCUS AURELIUS</div> Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206752 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206752"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31TAGWEBK3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Graver</div> The Cost of Discipleship http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19279 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19279"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Uxa5yFCSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dietrich Bonhoeffer</div> Mother Courage And Her Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93335 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertolt Brecht</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Atpe8kVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673201 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673201"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IyD5pYPBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geddes</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oBRQjKchL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38003 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38003"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679728872.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/644020 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/644020"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192832905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110475079_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11888 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11888"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L5cwzKPYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Clancy</div> Childhood's End http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7591 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7591"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ktGOkgYdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur C. Clarke</div> On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673240 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673240"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UVdLKeROL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicolaus Copernicus</div> The Andromeda Strain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/821 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/821"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060541814.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Crichton</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G1QbMh%2BLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> The Corsican brothers and Otho, the archer; (The novels of Alexandre Dumas) (The novels of Alexandre Dumas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673264 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas</div> The Game of Kings (Lymond Chronicles, 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19112 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19112"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bLt307rrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> Queens' Play: Second in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19113 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19113"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dH-qhpxrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> The Disorderly Knights: Third in the legendary Lymond Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19114 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19114"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QukaoWSqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> Pawn in Frankincense: Fourth in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19115 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19115"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h1R7fJu5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> The Ringed Castle: Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19116 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19116"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e-d-x8rOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19117 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19117"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N5CbOPxjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> King Hereafter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9080 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9080"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5143WQ1AQBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11043 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11043"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BAP8038YL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> The Discourses of Epictetus (Everyman's Library (Paper)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222041 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222041"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0460873121.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056445126_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Epictetus</div> Euclid's Elements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u13MjPBHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euclid</div> The Essential Euripides: Dancing in Dark Times http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254382 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254382"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0865165130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056501743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619541 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A rose for Emily: William Faulkner (Harcourt Brace casebook series in literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673282 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noel Polk</div> Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4286 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4286"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zVAa3gxAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> Tender Is the Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19236 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SrAz7JmqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Day of the Jackal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15681 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15681"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cqnsg8fkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Forsyth</div> The Golden Bough http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19329 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19329"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uXfSQaaML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James George Frazer</div> Sigmund Freud - The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673315 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudolf Allers</div> Galen: On the Natural Faculties (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673330 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Galen</div> The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18468 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18468"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F1FDVgkSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Gibbon</div> Goethe's Faust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65086 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65086"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517X4Z0CKAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13972 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13972"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YuQa2GzPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Hamilton</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories. Text and Study Aids. (Lernmaterialien) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673341 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673341"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/3125773806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wjtfJQQgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Hippocrates (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673345 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673345"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674995228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hippocrates</div>