Lists of Bests: tsamuel's "Books for 2007 - TSamuel" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20009 Books on my "to read" list for 2007, I will add more after I have read most of these Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:43:44 GMT en-us 0 50 84 50 0 American Gods http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2317826 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2317826"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060010606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056413849_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil. Gaiman</div> Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060955228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74609 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74609"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380789027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Gaiman</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Public Burning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24093 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24093"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802135277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Coover</div> Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66627 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394716523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene D. Genovese</div> Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47020293_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped By Surroundings and Events http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371241 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371241"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765804298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056485202_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by René Dubos</div> Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65482 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William S. Burroughs</div> Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23612 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23612"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0791426785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Heidegger</div> Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336387 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336387"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183225.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/998665 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/998665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743290313.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael J. Behe</div> The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (American Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30310 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30310"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564780880.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30615 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566630193.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaiah Berlin</div> The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1853321 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Burnham</div> Main currents in American thought: Interpretations of American literature to 1920, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146561 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vernon Louis Parrington</div> Open Society and Its Enemies, The (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365469 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415290635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56298804_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Popper</div> The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445 <div id="position">18</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> Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1046538 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1046538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375400702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25570 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25570"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812968581.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Toland</div> Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371252 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371252"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F5FNPM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54609062_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances FitzGerald</div> The Denial of Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966646 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0844669326.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Becker</div> The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345346297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> A Problem from Hell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/108 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007172990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Power</div> Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45867 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45867"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143034669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Coll</div> Day of the Triffids (Modern Library 20th Century Rediscovery) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475894 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Wyndham</div> Flesh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65350 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Jose Farmer</div> Cities In Flight (Gollancz SF) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487773 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487773"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0575078987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63257972_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Blish</div> The Forever War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060510862.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Haldeman</div> THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433195 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433195"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055302440X.01-A3L91G8GCDG7UG._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1089296034_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by RAY BRADBURY</div> War with the Newts (European Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25021 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25021"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810114682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karel Capek</div> Hyperion (Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series #1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2381492 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Princess of Mars (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25569 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25569"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812968514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Rice Burroughs</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">34</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> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006093140X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487798 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487798"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099771810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557828 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557828"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vikram Seth</div> Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66746 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66746"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679444599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Blind Assassin (Random House Large Print) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2391957 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2391957"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HWZ34O.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127237 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857152239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44185336_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> Matrix IV - The Equivideum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495541 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495541"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000AOBQ8G.01-A1A5861B2RBYD1._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123092168_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar (Val) Valerian</div> The matrix http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495533 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar Valerian</div> Matrix III, Volume Two: The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological and Electromagnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495534 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar Valerian</div> Defending Sacred Ground, The Andromedan Compendium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495535 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F9WZ0E.01-A2QSB8LKCIV44C._SCTHUMBZZZ_V33766376_.jpg" /></a></div> Matrix IV, The Equivideum - Paradigms and Dimensions of Human Evolution and Conscoiusness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495536 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar Valerian</div> Matrix V - Volume II: The Graduation Key http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495526 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar Valerian</div> Matrix II - The Abduction and Manipulation of Humans Using Advanced Technology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495537 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar Valerian</div> The Matrix - Understanding Aspects of Covert Interaction with Alien Culture, Technology and Planetary Power Structures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2495538 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valdamar Valerian</div>