Lists of Bests: Alexandra Moss's "Books I've Read in 2007" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/27673 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:28:59 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 Salt: A World History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3574 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3574"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001619.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kurlansky</div> Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food (Live Girls Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31711 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31711"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580050921.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1064643838_.jpg" /></a></div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345391802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Life, the Universe and Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962234 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345418905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> The Restaurant at the End of the Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971746 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971746"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345418921.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7756 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7756"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345391837.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> First Meetings in Ender's Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61500 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61500"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765347989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orson Scott Card</div> Mother Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10120 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562732 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562732"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345476395.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kurlansky</div> Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3050 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3050"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140292608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giles Milton</div> Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1651002 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1651002"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596911301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Kolbert</div> Psychoanalysis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2607804 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2607804"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1862076383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Malcolm</div> Double Negative (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/796244 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/796244"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/193339708X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Carkeet</div> The Brief History of the Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1994856 <div id="position">14</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 Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206406 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> The Lizard Cage: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2762960 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2762960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385518188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Connelly</div> Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9118 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9118"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375705767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Kaplan</div> The Best American Essays 2006 (Best American Essays) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001032 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618705295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Shah of Shahs (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1726600 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1726600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141188049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryszard Kapuscinski</div> The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72196 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72196"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810959275.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Neuromancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12791 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12791"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441012035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766197 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Ostler</div> The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18934 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18934"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679751238.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Kaplan</div> Conscious / Unconscious http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784847 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784847"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11g306LInCL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Hafftka</div> The Tummy Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8595 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8595"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374524173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Calvin Trillin</div> The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787028 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787028"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01e1Rp4m7kL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sasha Issenberg</div> Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1459930 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1459930"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307337847.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Bauer</div> After Dark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289651 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289651"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307265838.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44071864_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> The Emperor's Children (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781628 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781628"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11OmIxiBq9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Messud</div> A Man Without a Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1433538 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1433538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297736X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Big Sleep (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267854 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267854"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118261X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/478322 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/478322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060817321.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josh Kilmer-Purcell</div> From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66019 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66019"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039475218X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vikram Seth</div> The Time Traveler's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28468 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0965818675.01-A3710T60SJPA7S._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Gone to New York: Adventures in the City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/655838 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/655838"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031242504X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Frazier</div> The Camera My Mother Gave Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89042 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89042"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susanna Kaysen</div> The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2716398 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2716398"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000MV8HIO.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43819957_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Taras Grescoe</div> Lost Heart of Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2744395 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2744395"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099459280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Thubron</div> The Sirens of Titan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10108 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333498.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44915952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155330 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156007533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amir D. Aczel</div> The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2719414 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2719414"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596913606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45112636_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Bourdain</div> The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/798782 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/798782"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591841410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Battelle</div> Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/679651 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/679651"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067943822X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Gabler</div> Damnation Alley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/496496 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/496496"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743486625.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66746522_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Zelazny</div> The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2655390 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2655390"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767915801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44556422_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Kamp</div> Stranger in a Strange Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337784 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340837950.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> The Grotesque http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19101 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19101"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776214.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Mcgrath</div> In Persuasion Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2539914 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2539914"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/159448242X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Saunders</div> Underground http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423560 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423560"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099461099.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Spook Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2299358 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2299358"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399154302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44905941_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div>