Lists of Bests: bookworm28's "Bookworm's 'TBR' List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25346 I always carry around a little notebook where I jot down books I've read about or been recommended. Some I actually have sitting around my house waiting to be read; others I've read reviews of recently; of course, there are those that have been languishing on my "to read" list for years. I'm also currently working on the Pulitzer Prize Fiction Winners list and Booker Prize shortlists, but I hope to start making a dent in this one soon. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:00:26 GMT en-us 0 50 211 50 0 The Emperor's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/813038 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/813038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/030726419X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Messud</div> The Road (rough cut) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/429456 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/429456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307265439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> The Lay of the Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624824 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624824"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679454683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ford</div> The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/579899 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/579899"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374299196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Inheritance of Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1061510 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1061510"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400052459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> The Whole World Over: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225850 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225850"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375422749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Glass</div> Blue Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2162790 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2162790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HD1OW8.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Conlon</div> The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56997 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56997"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Harris</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156004801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> Rabbit Is Rich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2566211 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2566211"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140249435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> Rabbit at Rest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13531 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13531"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Way West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65247 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65247"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618154620.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. B. Guthrie</div> The Princess of Burundi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2642485 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2642485"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312327684.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46270046_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kjell Eriksson</div> American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1977972 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1977972"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Phillips</div> Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1676543 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1676543"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413757102.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Yates</div> Pretty Birds: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969090 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969090"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812973305.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Simon</div> The Good German http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2228218 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2228218"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312426089.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Kanon</div> The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172 <div id="position">19</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> Aloft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/567578 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/567578"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000C2GNQQ.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chang-Rae Lee</div> Night (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94284 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94284"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374500010.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elie Wiesel</div> Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2087731 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2087731"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142788.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kaplan</div> The Brief History of the Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1994856 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1994856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400095956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Brockmeier</div> The Doctor's Daughter: A novel by the bestselling author of Hearts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2642513 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2642513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345485858.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60004034_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hilma Wolitzer</div> Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575336 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575336"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060518502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45303984_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James L. Swanson</div> The Mercy Room: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217976 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217976"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316159735.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gilles Rozier</div> The City of Falling Angels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962501 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036939.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berendt</div> Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/313207 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/313207"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679643419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berendt</div> Jesus Land: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2562338 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2562338"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000LSA8SU.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Scheeres</div> The Rug Merchant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962506 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962506"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670034819.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129953553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meg Mullins</div> A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273180 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273180"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1401308686.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39139185_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert B. Oxnam</div> My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/102185 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/102185"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586482580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114830984_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christine Rosen</div> Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/450956 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/450956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307274942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Breyer</div> Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2414542 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2414542"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HWXZFI.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60674875_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Biskupic</div> Indecision http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642696 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642696"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330444573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Kunkel</div> Mixed: My Life in Black and White http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137574 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137574"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345481143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angela Nissel</div> Enrique's Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1402713 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1402713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812971787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sonia Nazario</div> The Truth About Celia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466884 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466884"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Brockmeier</div> Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1164868 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1164868"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375702423.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Savan</div> We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5946 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5946"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312243359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Gourevitch</div> Shake Hands with the Devil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507646 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099478935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Romeo Dallaire</div> The Columnist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4003 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4003"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156011980.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098942492_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Frank</div> A Ship Made of Paper http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2642633 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2642633"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099471256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Spencer</div> Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Unabridged) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1069792 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Koren Zailckas</div> Memoirs of a Geisha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961356 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961356"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Golden</div> Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84381 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84381"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743291646.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129755549_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Jonas</div> A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807126063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> East of Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Executioner's Song http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9008 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9008"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700811.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Under the Banner of Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191090 <div id="position">52</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330419129.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div>