Lists of Bests: Christopher's "The Ambrosia Society Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2143 My book club's selections so far. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:06:42 GMT en-us 0 50 40 0 0 Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4024 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4024"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eiyPdqd2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yann Martel</div> Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14659 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14659"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EFuB4mkqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Skinny Legs and All http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15885 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15885"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QH2TVC53L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Robbins</div> Getting Lucky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795104 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Cohen</div> How Do You Spell Beautiful?: And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/706818 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Lane</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13580 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451163966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> The Stone Diaries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2858 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2858"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/014023313X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Shields</div> You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10542 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10542"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I3nGv9rCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Haslett</div> Kim (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140183523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676348_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> All the Names http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3987 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3987"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BuPN9BAuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3467 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3467"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SufFo5WeL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fernando Pessoa</div> The Road from Coorain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18671 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18671"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414QF0EDAZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Ker Conway</div> Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32728 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32728"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N44q7T%2B9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Truss</div> Eunoia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29523 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29523"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1552450929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085482705_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christian Bok</div> The Kite Runner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32869 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32869"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aC4tiXgiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66520 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66520"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71D4KWBACJL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Omar Khayyam</div> A Dictionary of Maqiao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83112 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83112"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385339356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Han Shaogong</div> The Road to Wounded Knee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1549493 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1549493"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IS8eW0dmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Burnette</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962239 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962239"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41szGn7FqNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> Walsh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267489 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267489"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0889222150.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1074283476_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sharon Pollock</div> The Inheritance of Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21N6CTDD80L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2366593 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by gabriela; Translated w/ Introduction By Langston Hughes Mistral</div> Being There http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983471 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerzy Kosinski</div> Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124603 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124603"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HFTXR4.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/182106 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/182106"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516oTtlLeLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Voltaire</div> The Diary of Adam and Eve (Hesperus Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81827 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81827"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-g4Jsd2nL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Studhorse Man (Currents in Canadian Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/859050 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/859050"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yely1nluL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Kroetsch</div> Lapham Rising: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2902954 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2902954"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xNs0J5c3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Rosenblatt</div> Invisible Monsters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1674794 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> The Art of Loving http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2266277 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2266277"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vQ6IcTY6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Fromm</div> The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4519022 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Assassination Vacation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516ZpcYaeEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> The Closer We Are to Dying: A Memoir of Father and Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1713720 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1713720"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E8TFEGVBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Fiorito</div> The Tin Drum (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972575X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> The Abductor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394354 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394354"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q4BR39VDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leila Marouane</div> What is the What http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769605 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769605"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T6lYz3ooL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Birth House: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7419935 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7419935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wnzgjEKHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ami Mckay</div> Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4468497 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4468497"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511hyh99zGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> My Name is Red http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7446166 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7446166"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512IBarWruL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orhan Pamuk</div> Truth and Bright Water: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24138 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24138"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lsECfg5yL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas King</div>