Lists of Bests: prolix's "books i'd like to read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2240 I'm a librarian. This is the list where I keep track of things I run into, or read reviews of, and want to read. I never make real statistical progress on it, because for every book I finish, six more find their way onto my desk. I read young adult (YA) and children's fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, non-fiction, contemporary fiction, short stories, biographies and memoirs, and the occasional graphic novel. Sometimes things find their way onto this list, not because I have particular enthusiasm for them, but because my curiosity has been sparked by a request from a library visitor. (Like Twilight, which is the most popular book in the world for some reason.) Beginning in late March, 2006... June, 2008: Landmark: 150 books read (some of them very short, but some of them also <Blindness> Mid-March, 2009: 185 books read! That's more than 61 books a year, 1.18 books a week... Nov, 2009: 222 books read. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:13:09 GMT en-us 0 50 365 50 0 Eating Animals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6200365 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3318007 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3318007"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11sOm5O2bCL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Sellers</div> Leviathan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6244662 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Westerfeld</div> Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (Literacy Bridge Middle Reader) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3759747 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ying Chang Compestine</div> Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071693 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014200068X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10982 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10982"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary S. Lovell</div> The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6560793 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6560793"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yxv8qb5UL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Trenton Lee Stewart</div> Stasiland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784200 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Funder</div> How to Ditch Your Fairy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7224799 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7224799"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HMWqt2P5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Justine Larbalestier</div> World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2711269 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Brooks</div> Liar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6300189 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Justine Larbalestier</div> The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2367018 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Quinn</div> William S. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5031601 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zilpha Keatley Snyder</div> Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5802477 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5802477"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nJ3eDhl5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Collins</div> The Day the World Came to Town : 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1108059 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1108059"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060559713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim DeFede</div> Then We Came to the End: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2997779 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joshua Ferris</div> Dear American Airlines: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3792777 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3792777"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T8y5tgWgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Miles</div> How to Cook a Wolf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26592 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26592"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865473366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1088271839_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. F. K. Fisher</div> Everybody into the Pool: True Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1190545 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1190545"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060834269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beth Lisick</div> Helping Me Help Myself http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5714154 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beck Lisick</div> Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/564255 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/564255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0865476217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128206477_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Reardon</div> Hunger Games http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3640908 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Collins</div> The City of Ember http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5897303 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanne DuPrau</div> Columbine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5923530 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5923530"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/312r2ywQBIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Cullen</div> Because I'm Worth It (Gossip Girl #4) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4677835 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cecily von Ziegesar</div> Nineteen Minutes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3079072 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jodi Picoult</div> Geography Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62243 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62243"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060012234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brent Hartinger</div> The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071399 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071399"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Riordan</div> Gossip Girl #5: I Like It Like That http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4796168 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4796168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cDwsVLtFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> A Dangerous Climate (St. Germain) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3807595 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro</div> Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5567965 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5567965"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xmIzAOotL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia C. Wrede</div> Tales from Outer Suburbia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5770993 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5770993"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D57g-OhZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shaun Tan</div> You're The One That I Want http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6394511 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cecily von Ziegesar</div> The People of Sparks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45017 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45017"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375828257.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanne Duprau</div> Gossip Girl #7: Nobody Does It Better: A Gossip Girl Novel (Gossip Girl) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7066 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316735124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cecily von Ziegesar</div> Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3668444 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Cohn</div> The Last Light of the Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453703 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453703"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451459857.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122543572_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Gavriel Kay</div> The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6012955 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6012955"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Yu6nby5PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Roose</div> The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369465 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows</div> All I Want Is Everything (Gossip Girl, 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7150 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316912123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cecily von Ziegesar</div> Looking for Alaska http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158349 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158349"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142402516.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Green</div> Gossip Girl 2 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88221 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88221"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747563438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45179980_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cecily Von Ziegesar</div> One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5561386 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5561386"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-f6KEHpAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca Mead</div> 3 Willows: the sisterhood grows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5659458 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Brashares</div> The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5633918 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5633918"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519F268F9WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Todd Pruzan</div> I Do but I Don’t: Walking Down the Aisle without Losing Your Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1231366 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1231366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0738210129.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kamy Wicoff</div> Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21022 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21022"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743236017.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Klosterman</div> The Book of a Thousand Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3846627 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3846627"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515jh8tcSdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shannon Hale</div> I Was Told There'd Be Cake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3898846 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sloane Crosley</div> A Death in Belmont http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/138118 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/138118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393059804.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132077564_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Junger</div>