Lists of Bests: Sarahc44's "Books I'm requiring myself to read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/33422 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:59:35 GMT en-us 0 50 62 50 0 Running with Scissors: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729272 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729272"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000NRGQ30.01-A3CJT8DSMH28EB._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42996912_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> The Twentieth Century: A People's History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/762 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060530340.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24576 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24576"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805063897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ehrenreich</div> Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/559589"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Choke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10547 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10547"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Survivor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64698 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64698"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/009928264X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Invisible Monsters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311397 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311397"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099285444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Fight Club: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Me Talk Pretty One Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337679 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337679"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0349113912.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> Naked http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7101 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7101"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316777730.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> The Amityville Horror http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57485 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57485"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416507698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jay Anson</div> Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7111 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7111"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316779423.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21234 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21234"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/074327394X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109942606_.jpg" /></a></div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Pride and Prejudice (Baker Classics Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423166 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801012112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> The World According to Garp A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2617183 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2617183"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000MQROJW.01-A1FTJGMEPOBBKL._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> A Separate Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743253973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Knowles</div> Bell Jar (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066760 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066760"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061148512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> The Book Thief http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/195623 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/195623"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375831002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44908935_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Markus Zusak</div> Mother Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10120 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/355801 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/355801"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307347974.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1498121 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1498121"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FOM3MY.01-A2OQEE5HXLSLW9._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43440004_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Princess Bride (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/455295 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/455295"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345418263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Goldman</div> Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399351 <div id="position">31</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> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Snow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57969 <div id="position">33</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 Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2725106 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2725106"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184115492X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael CHABON</div> Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47020293_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Atlas Shrugged http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14003 <div id="position">36</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> Ishmael http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146015 <div id="position">37</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> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980904 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980904"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060589469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert M. Pirsig</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586590 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1586590"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0770430074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> The Five People You Meet in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21797 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0751536822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> A Farewell To Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684801469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65553112_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1584768 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1584768"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061189359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pete Dexter</div> The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785813 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11FtEIIzo8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Gilgoff</div> The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643377 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643377"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/156512488X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Eaton</div> Motherless Brooklyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476699 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571226329.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3529 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3529"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439904.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> In the Country of Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170129 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170129"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385340427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hisham Matar</div> Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642353 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642353"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416535071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Tammet</div>