Lists of Bests: azelma's "Valerie's Books to Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21882 A list of book I have sitting around that I should read. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:06:24 GMT en-us 0 50 31 0 0 Soul Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1383 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1383"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060936231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gao Xingjian</div> The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308687 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308687"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> Bel Canto (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> The Partly Cloudy Patriot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21067 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21067"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743243803.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> Take the Cannoli http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336016 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336016"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141006579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106713 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106713"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486440915.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Makepeace Thackeray</div> The Mermaid Chair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/491747 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/491747"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036696.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> A Million Little Pieces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2444956 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Frey</div> Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28928 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28928"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003468X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Blue Shoes and Happiness: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124440 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124440"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375422722.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1140861694_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Mccall Smith</div> In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136481 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136481"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140007570X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Mccall Smith</div> The Full Cupboard of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28887 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28887"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Mccall Smith</div> Stephen Sondheim: A life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155533 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155533"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meryle Secrest</div> Gertrude and Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2521276 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2521276"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140290907.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Toilers of the Sea (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227821 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227821"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375761322.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Hesperus Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33080 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33080"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1843910071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2402911 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2402911"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307383415.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barack Obama</div> The Plot Against America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60479 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60479"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400079497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Three Junes (Unabridged) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487646 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Glass</div> Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18688 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18688"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679725229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307264890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735 <div id="position">23</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> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141008253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> The History of Love: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314464 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314464"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicole Krauss</div> The Power of Babel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2496994 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2496994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099435241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McWhorter</div> The Alchemist (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Middlesex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51222 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Grim Grotto (Series of Unfortunate Events) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2407614 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2407614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1405215275.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lemony Snicket</div> Mirror Mirror: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1578 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1578"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060988657.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Maguire</div>