Lists of Bests: Timothy Joko-Veltman's "Booker Prize Winners" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2649 A list of the books on my shelf that I'll need to read before I can buy another book (I promised my wife I'd read them all first). In no particular order. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:01:04 GMT en-us 0 50 36 0 0 In a Free State: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28859 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28859"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400030552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> G.: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65386 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65386"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679736549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464914_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berger</div> The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32492 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32492"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/159017092X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.G. Farrell</div> The Conservationist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65389 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140047166.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nadine Gordimer</div> Heat and Dust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17923 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17923"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671646575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</div> Saville http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/784194 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Storey</div> Staying On: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41484 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41484"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226743497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533175_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Scott</div> The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3473 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3473"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118616X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> Offshore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65391 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65391"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395478049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1094699959_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> Rites of Passage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65392 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65392"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374526400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122535077_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2649 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2649"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140132708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Schindler's List http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18184 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18184"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671880314.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2562 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2562"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140074481.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599556_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Hotel Du Lac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65394 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65394"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Brookner</div> The Bone People: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2579 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2579"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140089225.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672753_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Keri Hulme</div> Old Devils: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46490 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kingsley Amis</div> Moon Tiger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65396 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65396"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802135331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Lively</div> Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19118 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679777504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Carey</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464898_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> The Famished Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10226 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10226"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385425139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Okri</div> Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10837 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10837"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393311147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Unsworth</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464945_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2863 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140233903.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676355_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roddy Doyle</div> How Late It Was, How Late http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10072 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10072"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385315600.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439085_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Kelman</div> The Ghost Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14071 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14071"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452276721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Last Orders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19046 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679766626.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465009_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Swift</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060977493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> Amsterdam: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10350 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10350"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494246.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Disgrace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140296409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138679970_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> The Blind Assassin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121695146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> True History of the Kelly Gang http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/205230 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/205230"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AKXD6I.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Carey</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4024 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4024"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027321.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yann Martel</div> Vernon God Little http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4072 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4072"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156029987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084947726_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by DBC Pierre</div> The Line of Beauty: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54877 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54877"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582346100.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Hollinghurst</div> The Sea (Man Booker Prize) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59171 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59171"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307263118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div>