Lists of Bests: liniwy's "Books I Need To Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/28631 I am attempting not to buy any new books until I have read all of these books. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:25:58 GMT en-us 0 50 78 50 0 Music for Torching http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2760091 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2760091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/068816711X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. M. Homes</div> Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/694 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/694"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060520132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. M. Homes</div> Wise Blood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766762 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> How to Lose Friends & Alienate People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5610 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5610"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306812274.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toby Young</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124497 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124497"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Sula http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2464260 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2464260"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452253330.01-AM538YKOTEV1F._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Blind Assassin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337828 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860498809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Watership Down (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1379 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1379"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Franny and Zooey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7090 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Bartleby and Benito Cereno (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14653 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14653"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486264734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Syrup http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3044 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3044"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140291873.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maxx Barry</div> Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21690 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving John</div> Miss Lonely Hearts & The Day of the Locust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2762693 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157226 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157226"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743257359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted C. Fishman</div> Amusing Ourselves to Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2028098 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Postman</div> The Orchid Thief http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2581202 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan ORLEAN</div> We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434638 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434638"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060832886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Baxter</div> Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1892295490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Running with Scissors: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729272 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729272"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000NRGQ30.01-A3CJT8DSMH28EB._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42996912_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961171 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961171"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573229628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Wurtzel</div> What Is Philosophy? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5097 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5097"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231079893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gilles Deleuze</div> The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137761 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137761"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/041525406X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Weber</div> Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics (Semaphores and Signs) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/290191 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/290191"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312214502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Danesi</div> Beyond Good And Evil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60752 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60752"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche</div> How to Be Alone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1551366 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1551366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007153589.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118919 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118919"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Legs McNeil</div> The Confessions of Saint Augustine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56945 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56945"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591094003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by St. Augustine of Hippo</div> Letters to a Young Poet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120264 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120264"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394741048.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440108_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rainer Maria Rilke</div> Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards, Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1024234 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1024234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1577663314.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Edwards</div> The Namesake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60537 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006551807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jhumpa Lahiri</div> The Bastard of Istanbul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769604 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769604"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400103975.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45259633_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elif Shafak</div> The Wonder Spot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2098549 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2098549"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739463489.01-A2TPRVUYIDCLFI._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Bank</div> Blue Highways: A Journey Into America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2276474 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Least Heat Moon</div> How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/006000942X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas C. Foster</div> You Shall Know Our Velocity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28915 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28915"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494817 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494817"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307386562.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by The Iraq Study Group</div> The Colossus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979577 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979577"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571098649.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91420 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91420"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400064090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114255413_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Alda</div> Middlesex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51222 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Mash. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769606 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Hooker</div> The Hours http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6188 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6188"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312305060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375504524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Lie Down in Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18801 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18801"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2107236 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Prep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1997953 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1997953"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330441272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Curtis Sittenfeld</div> Assassination Vacation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074326004X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> Secret Life of Bees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641210 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> The Second Sex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769607 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone De Beauvoir</div> Delights and Shadows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/405940 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/405940"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1556592019.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Kooser</div> Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9417 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9417"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760814.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Milford</div>