Lists of Bests: 501 Must-Read Books - Modern Fiction http://www.listsofbests.com/list/33360 From the "Modern Fiction" section of the book _501 Must-Read Books_ by Bounty Books. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:57:08 GMT en-us 0 50 140 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> Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2015767 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2015767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307276643.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Amado</div> Le Grand Meaulnes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482613 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482613"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2013220677.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59540588_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain Fournier</div> Take a Girl Like You http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122736 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122736"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140018484.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kingsley Amis</div> Winesburg, Ohio http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58149 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58149"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925423.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> Surfacing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10320 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10320"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676619 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039830.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Tales of Odessa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784573 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaak Babel</div> Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583955 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583955"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Sweet Hereafter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2287 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2287"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099268809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Banks</div> Regeneration Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740769 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740769"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140257683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> FICCIONES http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781232 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/1177TQSRZBL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/742908 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/742908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421919_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Breton</div> Master and Margarita, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1691791 <div id="position">15</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> Naked Lunch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543158 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543158"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000G2SXYC.01-A34BGT9FQIAQY3._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44591493_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William S. Burroughs</div> Possession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475513 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2080682911.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonia S. Byatt</div> If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39011 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39011"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857151380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184150_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/470776 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/470776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Auto-da-Fe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80559 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374518793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elias Canetti</div> Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19118 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679777504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Carey</div> The Kingdom of This World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834154 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834154"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alejo Carpentier</div> The Bloody Chamber http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745 <div id="position">23</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> What We Talk About When We Talk About Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904014 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099449846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28178 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28178"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Cary</div> Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</div> Soldiers of Salamis: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674506 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674506"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582344728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Javier Cercas</div> The Stories of John Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234 <div id="position">28</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> Disgrace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140296409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138679970_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Cheri (La Collection Francaise de CPI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/626548 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/626548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0977716104.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colette</div> Victory (The Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1876960 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1876960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FOVLOK.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph COnrad</div> A House and Its Head (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/270663 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/270663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivy Compton-Burnett</div> Fifth Business http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2736752 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2736752"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143051385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robertson Davies</div> Captain Corelli's Mandolin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0582461359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis de Bernieres</div> Underworld: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19456 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684848155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289723 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289723"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214392 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214392"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0826477895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred Doblin</div> Once Were Warriors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19017 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19017"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679761810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Duff</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76641 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844080382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42238246_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> The Lover http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46463 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46463"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700528.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marguerite Duras</div> The Alexandria Quartet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/854315 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/854315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571086098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39962847_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Durrell</div> The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307264890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Neverending Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15326 <div id="position">43</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> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Wars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71623 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71623"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571207995.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Findley</div> The Good Soldier http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969051 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969051"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> Wildlife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784579 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784579"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/016GVSRP5BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ford</div> A Passage to India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046027X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> The Corrections http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268177 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268177"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841156736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43048994_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Faulks</div>