Lists of Bests: jmc509's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/38847 These are books I would recommend for Americans in this first decade of the 21st century. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:18:42 GMT en-us 0 50 53 50 0 Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/512362 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/512362"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0824516451.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130205548_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gil Bailie</div> Befriending the Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/866478 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/866478"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802831346.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Vanier</div> Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1088907 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1088907"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380117.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114088391_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wayne Muller</div> The Fourth Turning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22592 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22592"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767900464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Strauss</div> On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6970 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6970"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316330116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134644345_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Grossman</div> Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version With The Apocrypha And The Deuterocanonical Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/859258 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/859258"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565637364.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Democracy in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969292 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969292"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1584772492.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexis de Tocqueville</div> The Gettysburg Address http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780601 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/014E3NE7GDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abraham Lincoln</div> Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430121 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430121"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853265691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760 <div id="position">10</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 Autobiography of Malcolm X http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463526 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140028242.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45800409_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm X</div> Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (Medicine & Society) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513257 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513257"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520203577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056450150_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W., Jr. Trent</div> Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11191 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11191"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394726979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Fox Piven</div> The Jungle (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118690 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118690"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602 <div id="position">16</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> The First Circle (European Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25026 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810115905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> War & Peace (Konemann Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84022 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84022"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3895086908.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">20</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> Oliver Twist (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489097 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2489097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1904633080.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Nausea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2522398 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Paul Sartre</div> Crime of Punishment, Presidential Commission Report (1960's) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836326 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Dead Man Walking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18936 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18936"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679751319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Prejean</div> Adventures of Huck Finn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/170575 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/170575"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565118138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25532 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25532"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081296618X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div> Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002236 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002236"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Feiler</div> A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/134272 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/134272"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060646918.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Luther King</div> An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2060409 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mahatma Gandhi</div> Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783922 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01n-Cyke2mL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rowling J. K.</div> The Diary of Anne Frank http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430761 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430761"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/082221718X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43417375_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wendy Ann Kesselman</div> An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507478 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507478"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670062715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Al Gore</div> Gorillas in the Mist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2637082 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2637082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753811413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65542574_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dian Fossey</div> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014671 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014671"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</div> Jesus and the Disinherited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24821 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24821"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807010294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Thurman</div> Healer of Shattered Hearts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/526149 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/526149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140147950.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David J. Wolpe</div> Night (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94284 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94284"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374500010.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elie Wiesel</div> Art of Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729960 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340750154.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dalai Lama</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">39</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> The World According To Garp http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2828770 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2828770"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01A3Q0DBMDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30464 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30464"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565846567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Studs Terkel</div> Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100904 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100904"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056455576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Tyranny of Kindness: Dismantling the Welfare System to End Poverty in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/187739 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/187739"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871135787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theresa Funiciello</div> The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337778 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337778"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/185326041X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73418 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73418"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618397523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139876737_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilyn Nelson</div> Waiting for Godot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781205 <div id="position">46</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> Fast Food Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Schlosser</div> Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/892764 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/892764"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743246268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irma S. Rombauer</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">49</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> 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">50</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>