Lists of Bests: penthesiliea's "the college board books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/35409 Books to Read Before College Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:53:24 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002919 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113633744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122574751_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351933 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351933"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140281606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761471 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131152354_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160033 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160033"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521832101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1069202150_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> Death comes for the archbishop: Willa, Cather http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96268 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Cherry Orchard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240578 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Checkov</div> The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1083463 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33081 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184391008X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Last of the Mohicans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962314 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962314"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404315608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056514367_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenimore Cooper</div> The Red Badge of Courage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495869.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephan Crane</div> Dante: Inferno http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90408 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90408"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642617.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464870_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave (Penguin Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430120 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> An American Tragedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619580 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150312 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150312"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756744.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908363 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140390138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Waldo Emerson</div> As I Lay Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EEAU1G.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43396484_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">29</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> Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352110 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352110"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551113813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> Goethe's Faust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65086 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385031149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076005075_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11617 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11617"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399529209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922 <div id="position">37</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> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53327 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53327"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099477319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> A Farewell to Arms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1041543 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1041543"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0736644318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056472449_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226469409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140268863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18601 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114098333_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/377919 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/377919"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EMH5IE.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">44</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> A Doll's House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1354859 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1354859"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1420922432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik Ibsen</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Turn of the Screw http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194557 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194557"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592246605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Metamorphosis: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3013 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3013"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Woman Warrior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2230 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maxine Hong Kingston</div>