Lists of Bests: baggymonster's "Books I Think Look Interesting" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/34906 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:08:29 GMT en-us 0 50 74 50 0 The Yiddish Policeman's Union http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780931 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> Silent In The Grave (STP - Mira) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2585580 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2585580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0778324109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47036180_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deanna Raybourn</div> Fieldwork: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2659657 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2659657"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374299161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45129070_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mischa Berlinski</div> The Piano Tuner: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28856 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400030382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Mason</div> Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/328185 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/328185"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805242090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca Goldstein</div> Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792147 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792147"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/118NXSZMDAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Wilson</div> Charity Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1742701 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1742701"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618546294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Lowenthal</div> City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1454306 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1454306"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684871734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beverly Swerling</div> The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1804931 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1804931"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037542265X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Bissell</div> Hell: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504340 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316735051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathryn Davis</div> The Intuitionist: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10340 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385493002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colson Whitehead</div> Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1390315 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1390315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colson Whitehead</div> The Dream Life of Sukhanov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2665310 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2665310"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olga Grushin</div> The Emperor's Children (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781628 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781628"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11OmIxiBq9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Messud</div> Special Topics in Calamity Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143112120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46672918_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisha Pessl</div> Suite Francaise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082203 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082203"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Nemirovsky</div> David Golder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208667 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208667"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0676979459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Nemirovsky</div> Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life And Works http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1567293 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1567293"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804754810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43026251_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Weiss</div> Fire in the Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792148 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11n50rKnbrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Nemirovsky</div> Mr. Foreigner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/692118 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/692118"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753813068.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Kneale</div> Only Revolutions: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122719 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375421769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Z. Danielewski</div> House of Leaves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1825012 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Z. Danielewski</div> The Savage Garden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/398837 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Mills</div> Ghostwalk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785214 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785214"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11FDTMRPNVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca Stott</div> The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2626263 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2626263"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038551848X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sheridan Hay</div> Kept: A Victorian Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2446031 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. J. Taylor</div> Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1000744 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1000744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400079578.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Kneale</div> A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640090 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307275337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45181633_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vasily Grossman</div> Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99025 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99025"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465054676.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114030272_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Pendergrast</div> Summer in Baden-Baden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2512787 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2512787"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0241143098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120409946_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonid Tsypkin</div> La Dame d'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2583198 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2583198"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670038008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61156876_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Zinsser</div> The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2041395 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2041395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Damrosch</div> Arthur and George http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1430002 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1430002"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400097037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Barnes</div> Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Thirty) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740620 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330491962.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Barnes</div> The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, time, and the texture of reality) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62517 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62517"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0965900584.01-A3TVTM9WD8EOHI._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45127386_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Greene</div> Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298916 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298916"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060531096.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lisa Randall</div> Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792150 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Tn+N-rkpL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael B Oren</div> Wizard of the Crow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480922 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O</div> English Passengers: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10380 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10380"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038549744X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Kneale</div> Einstein: His Life and Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964451 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964451"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743264738.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43351767_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Isaacson</div> Flaubert: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843617 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843617"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316118788.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Brown</div> Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792156 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elisabeth Ladenson</div> Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460 <div id="position">43</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> My Name Is Red http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9138 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9138"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706852.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orhan Pamuk</div> Istanbul: Memories and the City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964207 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964207"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orhan Pamuk</div> The Book of Air and Shadows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1845946 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Gruber</div> The Grave Tattoo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1681568 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1681568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312339216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Val McDermid</div> Angelica: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1864509 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1864509"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400062519.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Phillips</div> Forgetfulness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1566596 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1566596"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618634630.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ward Just</div> At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2366873 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2366873"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374106622.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44119623_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Fadiman</div>