Lists of Bests: phquaryn's "Books to read before the end of the year" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/22818 Read these books before the end of the year. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:41:46 GMT en-us 0 50 27 0 0 Daughter of Fortune http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4449022 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> The Magicians: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4031450 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lev Grossman</div> The Wild Ass's Skin (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175366 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honoré de Balzac</div> Old Filth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/714844 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/714844"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933372133.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Gardam</div> The Other Boleyn Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232408 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philippa Gregory</div> The Devil in the White City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1551367 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1551367"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553813536.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> A Harlot High and Low (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128819 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128819"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442324.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honoré de Balzac</div> Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/369532 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/369532"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195172418.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lizzie Collingham</div> A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24192 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24192"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802150616.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenzaburo Oë</div> Kokoro (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1358374 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1358374"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486451399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natsume Soseki</div> The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414090 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Under the Net http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2505 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140014454.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Stranger (A Vintage Book, V-2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147207 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147207"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BQ4M52.01-A34DCOKGCFCBEQ._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147560 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147560"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393956237.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65089 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65089"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019283911X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kalidasa</div> Children of the Alley: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/138153 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/138153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385264739.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3467 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3467"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fernando Pessoa</div> Memoirs of Hadrian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154964 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154964"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marguerite Yourcenar</div> Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2634191 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2634191"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571193986.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1082166230_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Clastres</div> Moo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534877 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Smiley</div> The March: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972247 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972247"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976150.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> March http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/294032 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/294032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geraldine Brooks</div> Possession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475513 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2080682911.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonia S. Byatt</div> Oryx and Crake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10561 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385721676.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4017 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4017"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156013363.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen G. Bloom</div> Sister Carrie (Unabridged Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2601348 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2601348"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400132703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34058347_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> The Master and Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1411683056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div>