Lists of Bests: The Essential books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20940 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:10:07 GMT en-us 0 50 179 50 0 The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42037 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42037"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0199267170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Iliad and Odyssey boxed set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118776X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Les Misérables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338085 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338085"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007136587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/377776 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/377776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417364 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417364"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39298 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192802380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43707 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43707"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812969642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4035 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4035"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015602764X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521539773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1st U.S. Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839385 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F3HVFE.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.S. Eliot</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23706 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> The Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489051 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489051"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41112 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375413316.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416 <div id="position">27</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> Trial, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2293 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2293"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099428644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Aeneid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/590936 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/590936"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670038032.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1899350 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1899350"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19260 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19260"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684807319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Butler Yeats</div> Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589 <div id="position">32</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> Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61215018_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069103656X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45091743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1892295490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0856684910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083862198_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Federico Garcia Lorca</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> A Fine Balance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1134186 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1134186"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FF9ODY.01-A2A7ANB7TJLT1Y._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mistry Rohinton</div> Blindness (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3982 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3982"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156007754.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016707 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76641 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844080382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42238246_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">44</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> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179263 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179263"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439887453.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435175 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435175"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860465811.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18575 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18575"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679601082.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Keats</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337594 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337594"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571224385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div>