Lists of Bests: Horrorvacui000's "To Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20297 Books to read from my home library. I've left out a lot that I've already read and I have plenty more than is listed, but these are the ones that I'd like to get through first. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:48:38 GMT en-us 0 50 51 50 0 Herodotus The Histories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307910 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307910"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118464 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118464"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449213.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suetonius</div> The Decameron (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Boccaccio</div> High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1675629 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1675629"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743283635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeremy Iversen</div> The Island of the Day Before http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981339 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981339"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82362 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82362"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Baudolino http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4061 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4061"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156029065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307264890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Historian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/251631 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/251631"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EGF0OG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Kostova</div> The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208448 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743298020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Setterfield</div> The Man From St. Petersburg http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2198199 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Follet Ken</div> The Pillars of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13689 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13689"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451207149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Follett</div> Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/991456 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/991456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571203132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikos Kazantzakis</div> Ottoman Centuries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586202 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586202"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0688080936.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465948_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lord Kinross</div> The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6924 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6924"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316168718.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Rosa Menocal</div> The War of 1812: A FORGOTTEN CONFLICT http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219343 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219343"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0252060598.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056427081_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald R. Hickey</div> The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1279039 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1279039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019509381X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Elkins</div> Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49349 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49349"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385239548.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ehle</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107645 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107645"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080387.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Count of Monte Cristo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2109633 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas</div> Gulliver's Travels (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500120 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Robinson Crusoe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/501429 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/501429"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23042 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0785813470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving Stone</div> The Agony and the Ecstasy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334031 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334031"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099416271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving Stone</div> Love Is Eternal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962865 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving Stone</div> A History of Wales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/960326 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/960326"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140145818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599558_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Davies</div> Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/541785 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/541785"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0070648433.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118220968_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Tierney</div> Art & Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46850 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0688123058.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Shlain</div> Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341004 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341004"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142004677.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Shlain</div> The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385993 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385993"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192804588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124153944_.jpg" /></a></div> Richelieu: Art and Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2498582 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hilliard Goldfarb</div> Art History's History (2nd Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2323925 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2323925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0130851337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056418893_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vernon Hyde Minor</div> The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19693 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0688053394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Hibbert</div> Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1030632 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1030632"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312263821.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430730_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence James</div> Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Studies in Comparative World History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1588970 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1588970"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521627249.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59665687_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Thornton</div> Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918073 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918073"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226203921.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mircea Eliade</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297106X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1074078 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1074078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019517609X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lauro Martines</div> The Alchemist (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200999 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200999"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812974409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Alda</div> Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980206 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980206"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586483781.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azadeh Moaveni</div> Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12974 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12974"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446394599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134676745_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald T. Phillips</div> Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044789X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> A Soldier of the Great War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/760182 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/760182"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156031132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Helprin</div> The Crucible (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/745307 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/745307"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/076792603X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Brown</div> A Room With a View http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001708 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001708"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0735105928.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14968 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14968"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517226952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div>