Lists of Bests: freckle717's "I want to be educated - a book list" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/34696 A list of 100 books I haven't read yet (modern and classic) and think are important for being a well-rounded, educated adult. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:21:13 GMT en-us 0 50 99 50 0 The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">5</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> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451516753.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43083024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Les Misérables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Secret Life of Bees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641210 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016938 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016938"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521338514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> Rabbit, Run http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732762 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Waiting for Godot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/015GFMFRQTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Tropic of Cancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/197312 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/197312"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000CMHVTE.01-AQ92TDRMBH82P._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25591 <div id="position">15</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> Farenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35282 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/213553 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/213553"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580493939.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> The Road (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307387895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24696178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> Bee Season: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774322 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000P8FUE8.01-A6TO64X2RJ6G4._SCTHUMBZZZ_V23444860_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Myla Goldberg</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2734567 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2734567"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/086068511X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> The World According to Garp http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2432300 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2432300"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ILSRYC.01-A1KTD478YXKD7V._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John IRVING</div> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19157 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19157"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679785892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hunter S. Thompson</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337594 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337594"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571224385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1040456 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1040456"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753453800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265147 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060976977.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24576 <div id="position">27</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> Out of Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491301 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491301"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508457.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151009988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147565 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147565"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014303961X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Virgin Suicides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1591720 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1591720"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747560595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45185241_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> The House on Mango Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2748100 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra Cisneros</div> The Godfather http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/268596 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/268596"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451205766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mario Puzo</div> One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2513347 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2513347"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000J0S238.01-A34BGT9FQIAQY3._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972195 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> The Alchemist (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">38</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> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866 <div id="position">39</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> A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52859 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52859"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43031949_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1840224029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> The Last of the Mohicans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2311134 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2311134"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587263955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenimore Cooper</div> The Cider House Rules http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781739 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781739"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Y32V42P7L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> Me Talk Pretty One Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337679 <div id="position">44</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> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">45</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> The Namesake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60537 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006551807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jhumpa Lahiri</div> The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2488948 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2488948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0752861743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James M. Cain</div> Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/346855 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/346855"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Shining http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1129687 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1129687"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743437497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> Water for Elephants http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020443 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020443"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565125606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Gruen</div>