Lists of Bests: rhia's "Rhia's 2006 Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21836 Books that I finished in 2006 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:13:17 GMT en-us 0 50 76 50 0 The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18848 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18848"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679740392.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Petroski</div> Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2410494 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2410494"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060875070.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heather O'Neill</div> The Elephant Talks to God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2484858 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2484858"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0864924593.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65151264_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dale Estey</div> The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489067 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061119067.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lemony Snicket</div> Daniel Isn't Talking: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988515 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988515"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385517513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marti Leimbach</div> Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105470 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105470"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/156512443X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Almond</div> Adverbs: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263511 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060724412.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Handler</div> Grayson (ESPANOL) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1690780 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1690780"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307279472.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Cox</div> Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth about Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659663 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0771065043.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1140888700_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Moses</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">10</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> Feast: Food to Celebrate Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29272 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29272"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1401301363.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nigella Lawson</div> Call Me the Breeze http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/577896 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/577896"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000C4SEXO.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133323421_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCabe</div> East of the Mountains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28897 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28897"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032652.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Guterson</div> Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1428 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1428"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/006095485X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ruff</div> Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298644 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298644"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Erdrich</div> French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/755480 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/755480"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375435484.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mireille Guiliano</div> Night Watch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2091899 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Zettell</div> Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div> Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11322 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395500761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> My Life in France http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/402922 <div id="position">20</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> Black Like Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664078 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Howard Griffin</div> Under the Duvet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/183237 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/183237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141007478.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marian Keyes</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">23</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> To Touch a Dream: A Wlderness Adventure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1870527 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1870527"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1553800354.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63352366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sunny Wright</div> Reparations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1947805 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1947805"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0002005646.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54936362_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Kimber</div> The Character of Rain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476606 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476606"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571220495.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amelie Nothomb</div> In the First Early Days of My Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1797273 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1797273"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0921833873.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056507738_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Catherine Hunter</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099578514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> The Birth House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2535248 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2535248"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0676977731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ami Mckay</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/711282 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/711282"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767903366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elaine Aron</div> pigeonholes are for pigeons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546393 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Vinyl Cafe Diaries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232912 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232912"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670044369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart McLean</div> A Short History of Indians in Canada: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546394 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546394"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0002007029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123253942_.jpg" /></a></div> The Blind Assassin (Random House Large Print) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2391957 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2391957"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HWZ34O.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The Glass Castle: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074324754X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeannette Walls</div> The Bitter Taste of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546395 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546395"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006481507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120255778_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bea Gonzalez</div> Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2119642 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Poppy Shakespeare: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/841639 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/841639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596911549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1135025954_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clare Allan</div> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735 <div id="position">40</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> Harold and Maude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/322391 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Higgins</div> Pattern Recognition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94382 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94382"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425198685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2199942 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2199942"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HKTQGM.01-A122D88AIJR0NL._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63621 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63621"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060899190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Warren</div> Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9382 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9382"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375758739.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Reichl</div> Lunch with Jan Wong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1353765 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by jan wong</div> Motherless Brooklyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476699 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571226329.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> Stone Diaries, The (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/331654 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/331654"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Shields</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> Casi una mujer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504545 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504545"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375705260.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Esmeralda Santiago</div>