Lists of Bests: Dodgerj's "ever increasing list of must read books!" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/30955 Like Southernbohemian, I've kept a list of books I NEED to read for a long time. This list grows much faster than I can read. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:42:33 GMT en-us 0 50 92 50 0 Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730218 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730218"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141023384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Foucault's Pendulum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2169760 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2169760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603297X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45469722_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Egyptologist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2508240 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2508240"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0715633996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Phillips</div> Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919846 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552995800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> Snow in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963708 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963708"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pete Hamill</div> Birds Without Wings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28985 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400043417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis De Bernieres</div> The Bone People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347864 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347864"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807130729.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Keri Hulme</div> A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546749 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546749"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374105235.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45148870_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ishmael Beah</div> The Soloist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18996 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18996"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44914911_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Salzman</div> Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2652891 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2652891"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345478088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Davidson</div> Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/302044 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> Master and Margarita, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1691791 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1691791"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141188286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Afanasevich; Ginsburg, Mirra (translator) Bulgakov</div> The Alienist: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978030 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978030"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976142.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caleb Carr</div> The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103389 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393960579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> The Moonstone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13961 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13961"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilkie Collins</div> Body and Soul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/546358 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/546358"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038531986X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Conroy</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14741 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14741"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486415864.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42219544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> City of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159217 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159217"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452282098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. L. Doctorow</div> The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/153272 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/153272"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674267206.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Waldo Emerson</div> The Monk Downstairs (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1522918 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1522918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Farrington</div> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640081 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640081"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141012692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399351 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399351"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486452433.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87865 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684800705.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Peace Like a River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423452 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423452"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552999350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leif Enger</div> Dead Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964103 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964103"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gilbert</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94394 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94394"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838744.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sena Jeter Naslund</div> Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12477 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12477"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440227534.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44911725_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> Family Matters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9065 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037570342X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rohinton Mistry</div> The Chosen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/468763 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/468763"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BK267O.01-AIR1YILJKP5Y._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chaim Potok</div> The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3213 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3213"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Snow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57969 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orhan Pamuk</div> The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795812 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795812"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Jackson</div> Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140280553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> My Sister's Keeper: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21455 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21455"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743454537.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jodi Picoult</div> Atlas Shrugged http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452011876.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> The Reader http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476790 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375408266.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernhard Schlink</div> The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88499 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88499"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John M. Barry</div> Grandmother and the Priests http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773848 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Taylor. Caldwell</div> The Painted Veil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2395305 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> The Glass Castle: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074324754X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeannette Walls</div> Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures (Adventure Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2657514 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2657514"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0792276760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michele Slung</div> The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1132067 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1132067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/159308143X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33567 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33567"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1879181037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Starbird</div> Crossing to Safety http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1696927 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wallace Stegner</div> The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133628 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133628"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140139397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wallace Stegner</div>