Lists of Bests: mike247worldwide's "Books I've Read in 2007" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/30975 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:46:14 GMT en-us 0 50 130 50 0 Palestine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009799 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009799"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0224069829.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Sacco</div> Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037571457X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50876 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50876"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375714669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2511148 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2511148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394541553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43041006_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Toward a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/542076 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/542076"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565848594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067923513_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noam Chomsky</div> Ishmael http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146015 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146015"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553078755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Origin Of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335331 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/335331"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0785819118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel (Flashman) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/365275 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/365275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452263034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George MacDonald Fraser</div> Flashman at the Charge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773901 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George MacDonald Fraser</div> The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33341 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33341"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/185984457X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tariq Ali</div> The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1567845 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1567845"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400075173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Fisk</div> The Prophet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485807 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khalil Gibran</div> Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17062 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17062"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609810340.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Mitchell</div> Siddhartha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/797978 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/797978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419377930.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10537 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10537"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720521.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067917381_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Louise Bardach</div> AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1069387 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1069387"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EVIT6W.01-AMQ6U98O37E1I._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1726969 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1726969"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805079114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45732196_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chalmers Johnson</div> BLOWBACK : The Costs and Consequences of American Empire + THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE : Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic + NEMESIS : The Last Days of the American Republic (The American Empire Project, 3 Volume Trilogy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773936 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chalmers Johnson</div> Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/492293 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/492293"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1904859011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139977702_.jpg" /></a></div> The Stories of John Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/871598 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/871598"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060816988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kirsch</div> Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773939 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773939"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805083200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45128374_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Schneider</div> The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170245 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170245"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594201072.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> Sharpe's Triumph http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/875623 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/875623"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060748044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531563_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Cornwell</div> The Mammoth Book of Journalism: 101 Masterpieces from the Finest Writers and Reporters, Including Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Martha Gellhorn, Winston ... John Simpson and Many More (Mammoth Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773959 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786711698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1827300 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1827300"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1557091846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Jefferson</div> Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15861 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553351397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thich Nhat Hanh</div> Zen: Merging of East and West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1258330 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1258330"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385261047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roshi P. Kapleau</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45214 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400052920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> A Short History of Nearly Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22692 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22692"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/076790818X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> DESERT QUEEN: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412538 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Wallach</div> An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39791 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39791"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pankaj Mishra</div> You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26981 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26981"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0876856830.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bukowski</div> Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2080436 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2080436"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0471735132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Epstein</div> Absurdistan: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1852178 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1852178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812971671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45181654_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Shteyngart</div> Lean Forward into Your Life: Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2693629 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2693629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573242985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Anne Radmacher</div> Regards From Serbia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775612 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775612"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891830422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47017925_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandar Zograf</div> Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton, from Hope to Harlem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2466936 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janis F. Kearney</div> Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487042 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Said</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297106X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2270925 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2270925"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805082840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noam Chomsky</div> When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: Tie-In Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/212763 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/212763"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452271681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Le Ly Hayslip</div> Letter to a Christian Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147768 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147768"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307265773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Harris</div> Under the Banner of Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191090 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2191090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330419129.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2430788 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2430788"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553383108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tahir Shah</div> Hadji Murad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2627172 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2627172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1602060134.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V36354851_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470956 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470956"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446579807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Hitchens</div> Pride of Baghdad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127371 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127371"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1401203140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian K. Vaughan</div>