Lists of Bests: The good fiction guide list http://www.listsofbests.com/list/32751 This is a list from the Good Fiction Guide published by the Oxford University Press. The lists are divided into different topics, so there are repeats in the list. There are 12 books in each list apart from the glamour section which only has 6. The sections are, in order, Adventure, Africa, Australia & New Zealand, Black & White, Canada, Caribbean, Childhood, Classics, Crime, Family saga, Fantasy, Film adaptations, France, Germany, Glamour, Historical, Humour, India, Ireland, Magic realism, Romance, Russia, Science fiction, The Sea, Sexual politics, Short stories, Social issues, Spy, Supernatural, Teen, Thrillers, United States of America, War and Western. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:39:16 GMT en-us 0 50 395 50 0 Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95287 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95287"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402714572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> With Clive in India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781948 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SY4TT9DGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. A. Henty</div> King Solomon's Mines (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175154 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175154"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. Rider Haggard</div> The Prisoner of Zenda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21877 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21877"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0755107098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083826480_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Hope</div> Lord Jim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656785 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786157887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44258031_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/814306 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/814306"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erskine Childers</div> The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3530 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Buchan</div> Stamboul Train: An Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140185321.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Mask of Dimitrios http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781950 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781950"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/1132xC+anqL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Ambler</div> No Highway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265546 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265546"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1842322737.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056527775_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nevil Shute</div> Airport - Copyright Arthur Hailey, Inc. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368063 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368063"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EDVQLU.01-A1B5C7XV7CN9LT._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Hailey</div> Sharpe's Eagle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/827761 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/827761"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451212576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Cornwell</div> The Poor Christ of Bomba http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/198165 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/198165"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577664183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mongo Beti</div> God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232040 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0435909592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sembene Ousmane</div> Arrow of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9936 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9936"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385014805.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1707635 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1707635"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ngugi wa Thiong'o</div> Petals of Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/716991 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/716991"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ngugi wa Thiong'o</div> Fragments (African Writers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1638328 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1638328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0435901540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056442730_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayi Kwei Armah</div> This Was the Old Chief's Country (Collected African Stories) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1096532 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1096532"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/000225705X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057187820_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> The Sun Between Their Feet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781963 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GRKCJ4G3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> God Dies by the Nile: Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2713433 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2713433"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842778773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46902484_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nawal El Saadawi</div> Waiting for the Rain (Southern African Political Economy Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781966 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11X00AWBY8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Mungoshi</div> Waiting for the Barbarians http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730971 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730971"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099465930.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J M Coetzee</div> Nervous Conditions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/597659 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/597659"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580051340.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tsitsi Dangarembga</div> My Brilliant Career http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781949 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781949"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/019iIEG1zFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miles Franklin</div> Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49466 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49466"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733744.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Mansfield</div> The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6065 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312280440.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Stead</div> Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32473 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32473"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590170024.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick White</div> Faces in the Water http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2498237 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2498237"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704338610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Frame</div> Miss Peabody's Inheritance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65438 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Jolley</div> The Children's Bach http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781972 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Garner</div> The Bone People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347864 <div id="position">32</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> Harland's Half Acre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1402574 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1402574"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776478.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465035_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Malouf</div> The Playmaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/445163 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/445163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671885111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> Oscar and Lucinda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771533 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771533"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0702229784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carey Peter</div> Cloudstreet : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20999 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20999"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743234413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Winton</div> The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (American Century Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/708713 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a 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Wright</div> Black Shack Alley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1800463 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Zobel</div> The Lonely Londoners (Longman Caribbean Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47883 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0582642647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Selvon</div> The Bluest Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962238 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962238"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452287065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Beka Lamb (Caribbean Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937137 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937137"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0435988441.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056442753_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zee Edgell</div> Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9104 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9104"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/037570504X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwidge Danticat</div> The Farming of Bones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47857 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47857"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140280499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwidge Danticat</div> In Another Place, Not Here http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/955504 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/955504"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136338.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dionne Brand</div> Buxton Spice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24878 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24878"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807083712.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oonya Kempadoo</div> Anne of Green Gables http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132799 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132799"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0448424592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. M. Montgomery</div> The Stone Angel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750569 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750569"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/077104707X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Laurence</div>