Lists of Bests: Alexandra Moss's "Books I've read in 2006" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21015 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:54:14 GMT en-us 0 50 48 0 0 Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25554 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25554"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967607.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephanie Elizondo Griest</div> Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93313 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93313"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577660153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marvin Harris</div> Granta 26: Travel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142396 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142396"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140123563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120266959_.jpg" /></a></div> Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/151251 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/151251"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0804732078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Kite Runner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32869 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32869"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594480001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57380589_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Riding the Iron Rooster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24366 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804104549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Theroux</div> The Chinese Gold Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story (Judge Dee Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63086 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060728671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Van Gulik</div> Lake Wobegon Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/257494 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/257494"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571225535.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garrison Keillor</div> Where I Was From http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85178 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679752862.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/760 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/760"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060529709.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124920687_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs : A Memoir of Iran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734246 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0066209803.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher de Bellaigue</div> The Timewaster Letters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/362239 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/362239"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1843171694.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robin Cooper</div> Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10990 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324826.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Roach</div> Seeing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122763 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122763"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151012385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64257200_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> In Siberia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970133 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970133"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/006095373X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Thubron</div> The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641345 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641345"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0631230939.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Caldwell</div> Southeast Asia: An Introductory History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1209760 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1209760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1741144485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milton Osborne</div> Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015587 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037572754X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Bissell</div> The Lost Messiah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1325678 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1325678"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1585675547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077242306_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Freely</div> God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1006275 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1006275"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142196339.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kirsch</div> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618711651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830296 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830296"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603056X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Rehak</div> Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/735690 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/735690"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592402178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Roberts</div> The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315393 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060555599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Trevor Corson</div> As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1275 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Colapinto</div> Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28900 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28900"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1082393138_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8608 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8608"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Fadiman</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25312 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25312"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812515285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vernor Vinge</div> A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25372 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812536355.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vernor Vinge</div> The Years of Rice and Salt http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16131 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16131"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553580078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Stanley Robinson</div> Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357327 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/031615461X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Royte</div> My Life in France http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/402922 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/402922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400043468.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Child</div> The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/360175 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/360175"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060093692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elin McCoy</div> Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2024509 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2024509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805076158.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Pomfret</div> Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89415 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400041201.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56508045_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Buford</div> A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424110 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424110"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007161069.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jason Roberts</div> Stick Out Your Tongue http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2003021 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2003021"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099481332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45162792_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ma Jian</div> Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1033716 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1033716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559705981.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Poole</div> Special Topics in Calamity Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2161725 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2161725"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067003777X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisha Pessl</div> Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1063017 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1063017"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727388.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V51484345_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Mazower</div> Fast Food Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Schlosser</div> Them: A Memoir of Parents http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2201582 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2201582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000H5ULR0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine du Plessix Gray</div> Prague: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9399 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9399"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375759778.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Phillips</div> The Crusades: A History; Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1448098 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1448098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300101287.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1102541782_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Riley-Smith</div> I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/101574 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/101574"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400044618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Shadow of the Giant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2531530 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2531530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000JMK8Y2.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orson Scott Card</div>