Lists of Bests: California Reading List--Number 13+ http://www.listsofbests.com/list/39845 This is the list of books from the highest possible reading level score according to Star Testing. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:39:10 GMT en-us 0 50 93 50 0 The Aeneid: Virgil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18722 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18722"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729526.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The American Dream and Zoo Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14081 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452278899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Albee</div> Americans' Favorite Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10684 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10684"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393048209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439753_.jpg" /></a></div> Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/755907 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/755907"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060732601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894128 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894128"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01bsqUspt1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mario Vargas Llosa</div> The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001720 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001720"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1588276686.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Franklin</div> Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2539965 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2539965"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0460872052.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Lorca: Blood Wedding (Hispanic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772518 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Federico Garcia Lorca</div> A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/612956 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/612956"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156005743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Czeslaw Milosz</div> Bosnian Chronicle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477330 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860461212.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivo Andric</div> W.H. Auden: Collected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/407830 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/407830"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571142265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056598129_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W.H. Auden</div> A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (New Directions Paperback No. 74) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25087 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25087"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200418.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Ferlinghetti</div> The Crucible (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> Cyrano De Bergerac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/835041 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/835041"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528921.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmond Rostand</div> Death in Venice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97719 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060576170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexis de Tocqueville</div> A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741991 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741991"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495982.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik Ibsen</div> The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/483098 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/483098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060757388.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Zindel</div> Fences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2628286 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by August Wilson</div> The Fire Next Time (Hrw Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014238 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19426 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19426"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684843269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ntozake Shange</div> Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Book Club Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1652465 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1652465"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GFTC30.01-A22LAETYAAZ1R4._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> Frenchtown Summer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/942006 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/942006"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440228549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Cormier</div> The Glass Menagerie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25144 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25144"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811214044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tennessee Williams</div> The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43777 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pearl S. Buck</div> Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074347712X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Bigotry, Prejudice and Hatred: Definitions, Causes & Solutions (Contemporary Issues) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576486 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576486"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0879757515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503999_.jpg" /></a></div> Hedda Gabler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2140563 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2140563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1847024696.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik Ibsen</div> The House That Crack Built http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894130 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894130"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11AQCZF57HL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clark Taylor</div> The Hunchback of Notre-Dame http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1709186 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1709186"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587264021.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations / Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894132 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> Ivanhoe (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/533393 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/533393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Scott</div> Julius Caeser http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367580 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/166028 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/166028"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/052567554X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676395_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mel Glenn</div> King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348276X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Kon-tiki: Across the Pacific By Raft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2016858 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2016858"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000AS5QYC.01-A3FLYJKEXGJP6T._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44730158_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thor Heyerdahl</div> Life Doesn't Frighten Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638778 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638778"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1556702884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> Lives of a Cell, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74959 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553275801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Thomas</div> Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/125951 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/125951"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802714625.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21548 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Major Barbara http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894140 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894140"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ffmt-AhEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Bernard Shaw</div> The Wadsworth Casebook Series for Reading, Research and Writing: Master Harold (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2070670 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2070670"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015505483X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1108001467_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie G. Kirszner</div> Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2511148 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2511148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394541553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43041006_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42344 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42344"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Metamorphosis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60073 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60073"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400047951.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Kuper</div> A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21551 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21551"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Mind's Eye (Laurel-Leaf Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12484 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12484"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440229014.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Fleischman</div>