Lists of Bests: National Endowment for the Arts "The Big Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/30328 From the official Web site: bq. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. (Books are in alphabetical order by author last name.) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:03:28 GMT en-us 0 50 31 0 0 Bless Me, Ultima http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035634 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035634"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudolfo Anaya</div> Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771160 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> My Antonia (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/558159 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/558159"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/019283200X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6936 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6936"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316184136.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44483314_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Dickinson</div> Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298644 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298644"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Erdrich</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9054 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375702709.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50039481_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest J. Gaines</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422555 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422555"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0752865331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> A Farewell To Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684801469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65553112_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Sun, Stone, and Shadows 20 Great Mexican Short Stories (Tezontle) (Tezontle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5304153 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5304153"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fCWmWpoPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge F. Hernandez</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Washington Square (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3015781 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3015781"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01jVbQ5w6fL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Selected Poems (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/920287 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/920287"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394702956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robinson Jeffers</div> A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15942 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553383043.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417364 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417364"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439227143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> The Complete Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513340 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513340"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CsimNi2XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</div> THIEF AND THE DOGS, THE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10020 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10020"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385264623.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618084746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Things They Carried http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22615 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22615"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767902890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim O'Brien</div> The Shawl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59093 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59093"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729267.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cynthia Ozick</div> Enriched Classics: Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3252124 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3252124"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GaAxzeVgL.jpg" /></a></div> Housekeeping: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712961 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712961"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01P7S31Q2XL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13971 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13971"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908587 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204625 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204625"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393967948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293865 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293865"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060580615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Our Town : A Play in Three Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/784 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/784"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060535253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> Old School http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9033 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9033"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118223787_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolff</div>