Lists of Bests: Slate's Best Books of 2006 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20160 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:40:57 GMT en-us 0 50 23 0 0 The Lay of the Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624824 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624824"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679454683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ford</div> Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2412893 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2412893"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674023552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh</div> Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494691 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494691"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061241504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lauren Redniss</div> Happiness: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494697 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494697"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Darrin M. McMahon</div> The View from Castle Rock: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025540 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400042828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/439118 <div id="position">6</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> Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974201 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974201"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375412344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Goldberg</div> Angle of Yaw http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1432678 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1432678"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1556592469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Lerner</div> The Mystery Guest: An Account http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2157743 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2157743"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374185700.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregoire Bouillier</div> Heat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1656802 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1656802"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/022407184X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Buford</div> Collected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/813657 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/813657"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374126526.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.K. Williams</div> The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066250 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037541486X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Wright</div> The Emperor's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/813038 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/813038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/030726419X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Messud</div> Letters of Martha Gellhorn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/910795 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/910795"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0701169524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Works: Anatomy of a City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494725 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Ascher</div> The Last Supper http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906825 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906825"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585677620.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles McCarry</div> Cancer Vixen: A True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1154216 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1154216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307263576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisa Acocella Marchetto</div> Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/184515 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/184515"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0972969624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Arguments with England: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226825 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226825"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571224458.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Blakemore</div> The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1538836 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1538836"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151012350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V58768324_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rory Stewart</div> Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2143787 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2143787"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933633107.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kitty Burns Florey</div> The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983859 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983859"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039306123X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45117727_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Lewis</div> Old Filth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/714844 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/714844"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933372133.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Gardam</div>