Lists of Bests: pinsky's "Books I read in 2005" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/3076 Excluding re-reads. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:33:13 GMT en-us 0 50 86 50 0 Anne of Green Gables (Children's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14956 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14956"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0517189682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L.M. Montgomery</div> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3139 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3139"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140390839.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15559 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15559"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553210793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122548656_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13938 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13938"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527321.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> The Hidden Alphabet (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) (Neal Porter Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844391 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844391"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761319417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084944652_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Vaccaro Seeger</div> Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15610 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15610"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/055321392X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619511 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> For Whom the Bell Tolls (A Penguin Modern Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844402 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844402"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F366VO.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57218479_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemmingway</div> The Ink Drinker (Ink Drinker) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39809 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39809"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440414857.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Sanvoisin</div> Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3228 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3228"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> Zadig http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844405 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/203871701X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62187920_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> L'ingénu http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844412 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844412"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2253139408.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15606 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15606"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553213695.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> A Dreary Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844427 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844427"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005ORNN.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> The Importance of Being Earnest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51961 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51961"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158049580X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19883 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19883"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068983571X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12342 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12342"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0439670195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. B. Kerr</div> A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29807 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29807"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558743669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Pelzer</div> Classic Fairy Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67366 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/086713089X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Bloody Chamber http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014017821X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angela Carter</div> Perfume: The Story of a Murderer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9269 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9269"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Suskind</div> The Neverending Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15326 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15326"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525457585.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ende</div> Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19875 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19875"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689832133.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122555588_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doreen Cronin</div> Giggle, Giggle, Quack http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19902 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19902"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689845065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056466707_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doreen Cronin (Author)</div> Duck for President (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19951 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19951"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689863772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1063865652_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doreen Cronin</div> A Great and Terrible Beauty (Readers Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40104 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40104"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385732317.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Libba Bray</div> The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23219 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23219"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786852895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eoin Colfer</div> The Crimson Petal and the White http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4056 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4056"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156028778.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Faber</div> Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15565 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15565"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553211757.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056455455_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14657 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14657"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486266842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619541 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76055 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553103547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57220625_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George R.R. Martin</div> A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2 (Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93732 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93732"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0736699406.01-A1QXOTMLHGVEXT._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George R. R. Martin</div> A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48852 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48852"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553106635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George R. R. Martin</div> Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52235 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52235"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1582346038.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susanna Clarke</div> The Westing Game http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3131 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3131"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140386645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098270092_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Raskin</div> Chasing Vermeer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12298 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12298"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439372976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109971038_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blue Balliett</div> Deep Secret http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493447 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493447"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765342472.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Wynne Jones</div> Gollum: A Behind the Scenes Guide of the Making of Gollum (The Lord of the Rings) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111410 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111410"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618391045.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1073425157_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andy Serkis</div> Rats Saw God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19847 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19847"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689807775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rob Thomas</div> Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3104 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3104"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140367217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420960_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div> Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844448 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844448"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060747447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Wynne Jones</div> How To Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24759 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24759"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0806512717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Farber</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156907399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422718_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Molly Moon Stops the World (Molly Moon) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844451 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844451"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AI4JWC.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georgia Byng</div> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12349 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12349"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439784549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125025641_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> Tigana: 10th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13822 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13822"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451457765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Gavriel Kay</div> The People of Sparks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45017 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45017"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375828257.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanne Duprau</div> Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20146 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20146"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0698116844.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula Danziger</div>