Lists of Bests: The Subjected Reader's "Read Me!" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/27409 Books I hope to read (or re-read) sometime in the near future. This list is perpetually changing. The list is alphabetical by author/editor--except for recently-added stuff at the end that I'm too lazy to sort regularly. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:51:35 GMT en-us 0 50 421 50 0 The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2357150 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2357150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061129763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783402 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783402"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/0177MXYEETL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Ackroyd</div> Watership Down (Puffin Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133341 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140306013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Time Machines: The Greatest Time Travel Stories Ever Written http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489470 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489470"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786704934.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056488258_.jpg" /></a></div> The Wine-dark Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4156874 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Aickman</div> The Blood-Dimmed Tide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/496950 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/496950"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EUKQY6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55765185_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rennie Airth</div> The Man with the Golden Arm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2626283 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2626283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841955612.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nelson Algren</div> Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518549 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518549"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PMM5iSo0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lisa Appignanesi</div> Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> Incubus (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/626155 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/626155"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345438167.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056437117_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Arensberg</div> Four-Letter Words: And Other Secrets of a Crossword Insider http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5313044 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5313044"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hxTODiGML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michelle Arnot</div> The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4872894 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4872894"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ci-ZCTkhL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Ashenburg</div> The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3064463 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3064463"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01mOQwVpqVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Ashley</div> The Feast of Stephen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2579510 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2579510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425177998.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056442213_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosemary Aubert</div> In the Country of Last Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2593 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2593"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140097058.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672752_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292217 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292217"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0870816721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony F. Aveni</div> Human Smoke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2974475 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholson Baker</div> Neuropath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4392498 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4392498"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jQKuWz6-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Bakker</div> The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1782073 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1782073"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192862197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Deadly Percheron http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830355 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933618108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Franklin Bardin</div> The Last of Philip Banter (Classic Crime) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2605 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Franklin Bardin</div> The Books of Blood (vols. 1-6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766750 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clive Barker</div> A Fly Has A Hundred Eyes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266932 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266932"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51moWmqRpOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aileen Baron</div> Brookland: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500424 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500424"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425805.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V49591888_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Barton</div> Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3032496 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3032496"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Hwg0aTPzL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bass</div> Les Mandarins : Tome 1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1866777 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1866777"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/207036769X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone de Beauvoir</div> A Legacy (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2721519 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2721519"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141188057.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sybille Bedford</div> The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216501 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216501"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565121457.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125464352_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert J. Begiebing</div> The Librarian: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158085 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158085"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560256362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry Beinhart</div> Straight Cut (Hard Case Crime (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421368 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421368"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0843955929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138651157_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madison Smartt Bell</div> Trent's Last Case http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1078689 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. Clerihew Bentley</div> Mouchette (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/746288 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/746288"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590171519.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Bernanos</div> A Crime in the Neighborhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691508 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691508"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140273328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Berne</div> A Crime in the Neighborhood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24533 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24533"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805055800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056492944_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Berne</div> Seven Keys to Baldpate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796339 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796339"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GTBQS1DVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Earl Derr Biggers</div> The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32488 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32488"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590170571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adolfo Bioy Casares</div> Who Made Stevie Crye? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1348154 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Bishop</div> Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4392492 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4392492"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VbC-cBz6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas A. Blackmon</div> Grange House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39164 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39164"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312280041.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Blake</div> Elsewhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3678055 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Peter Blatty</div> Fear and Trembling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/376021 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/376021"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812515854.01-A3L91G8GCDG7UG._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Bloch</div> Shooting Star/Spiderweb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3501055 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3501055"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/114YsdxWwYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Bloch</div> The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26708 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26708"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871136643.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard K. Bloom</div> Group Portrait With Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017179 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017179"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Boll</div> Opium: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60820 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60820"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312206674.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Booth</div> A Memory of Murder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/274019 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Death Is a Lonely Business http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9712 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380789655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Nine Horrors and a Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758532 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Payne Brennan</div> A Clock Without Hands: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/645873 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/645873"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345446577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Burt</div> Fledgling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967183 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967183"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446696161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Octavia E. Butler</div>