Lists of Bests: inkdrinker's "Books which have had a real impact on me" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2148 These aren't always the most well written or even the best books (although they often are both). These are the books which have really left me thinking or feeling something about or because of them for days. By it's very nature this list will grow as I read new things which have this kind of impact. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:11:53 GMT en-us 0 50 55 50 0 All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156012952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> Something Wicked This Way Comes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/272784 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/272784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380977273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37897026_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> House of Stairs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3092 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140345809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Sleator</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038549081X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15880 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15880"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553375407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122548943_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> The Giver http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12522 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12522"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440237688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39215717_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> Cat's Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1324 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1324"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060931914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, Bk. 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7569 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7569"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345338588.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Piers Anthony</div> The New York Trilogy (Contemporary American Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140131558.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> V for Vendetta http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28023 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28023"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0930289528.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124919402_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore</div> The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11291 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11291"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0395193958.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> A Study in Scarlet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510294 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/510294"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle</div> Empire of the Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47117 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47117"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743265238.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> Franny and Zooey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7093 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7093"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769495.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134644346_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13580 <div id="position">17</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 Wisdom of Insecurity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11157 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11157"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394704681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan W. Watts</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9390 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9390"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375759174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Looking For Alaska (Printz Award Winner) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38033 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38033"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525475060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Green</div> The Music of Chance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2697 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2697"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140154078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599559_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> The Little Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156012197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25517 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25517"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812931130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056495494_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rob Kaplan</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345342968.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122534399_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225670 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225670"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312423144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Camp Concentration: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65363 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375705457.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113584768_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas M. Disch</div> Intellectuals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1199 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060916575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul M. Johnson</div> The Baron in the Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156106809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Compleat Moonshadow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75303 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75303"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1563893436.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.M. DeMatteis</div> Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18914 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679748261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65553089_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Crazy Ape: http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707503 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert, Szent-GyOrgyi</div> The Rachel Papers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18782 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18782"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734589.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14713 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14713"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486298574.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Perkins Gilman</div> A Separate Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743253973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Knowles</div> Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15601 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15601"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553213415.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT</div> The Sound of Waves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68426 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68426"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679752684.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464962_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yukio Mishima</div> The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171478 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171478"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679750150.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yukio Mishima</div> The Fox; The Captain's Doll; The Ladybird: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707535 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187790.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14699 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486290301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/115461 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/115461"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345431626.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Tevis</div> The Man Who Fell to Earth (Del Rey Impact) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7959 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7959"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345431618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Tevis</div> High Fidelity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31222 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31222"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573225517.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> A Case of Curiosities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4007 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156012898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Kurzweil</div> The Grand Complication: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453329 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453329"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0006HQLO6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Kurzweil</div> Behind the Door (Quartet Encounters) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707577 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707577"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704301768.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084426313_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giorgio Bassani</div> Walk Two Moons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1920 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1920"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0064405176.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sharon Creech</div> The Trokeville Way http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707584 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/707584"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679881484.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Hoban</div> The Goats http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8534 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8534"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374425752.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128031596_.jpg" /></a></div> Burger Wuss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/304708 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/304708"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0763615676.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61331133_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. T. Anderson</div>