Lists of Bests: Francine Prose's List of Books to be Read Immediately http://www.listsofbests.com/list/40840 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:45:54 GMT en-us 0 50 119 50 0 Rashomon: And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2916967 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2916967"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01pV9tm0JkL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryunosuke Akutagawa</div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">2</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> The Song of Roland (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38084 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38084"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56343 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56343"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036238.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46018830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10980 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10980"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Babel</div> Vintage Baldwin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215208 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215208"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481251 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481251"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375759077.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honoré de Balzac</div> Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482328 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482328"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Barthelme</div> Stories in an Almost Classical Mode http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442092 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679724311.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Brodkey</div> Believers: A novella and stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273339 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273339"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679776532.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465036_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Baxter</div> The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Beckett, Samuel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139344 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139344"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802134904.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The House in Paris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10554 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10554"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385721250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Bowen</div> Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen Modern Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771000 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2771000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0720611792.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Bowles</div> Paul Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85927 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85927"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1931082200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Bowles</div> Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1126053 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Cosmicomics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/212330 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/212330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2020413892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067924948_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2471979 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2471979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871137216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> Cathedral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18667 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18667"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/529560 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/529560"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140108920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> The Stories of John Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499515 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499515"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FZZ7BM.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633864 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633864"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449221.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> Tales of Chekhov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647842 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647842"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061153869.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> Drown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31228 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31228"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573226068.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521590_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Diaz</div> Bleak House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008119 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008119"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037617.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Dombey and Son (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/303529 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/303529"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967437.01._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">28</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> I Sailed with Magellan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1110070 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1110070"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Dybek</div> The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/521036 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/521036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374524920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Eisenberg</div> Middlemarch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41195 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41195"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1582791791.01-A1Q6B4EM3VBMLB._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Searches and Seizures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27088 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27088"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879232536.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Elkin</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429260 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429260"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1417656638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183594.01._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">35</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> Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/126606 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/126606"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Desperate Characters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2421842 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2421842"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007150385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula Fox</div> The Corrections http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268177 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268177"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841156736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32477 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32477"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590170229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mavis Gallant</div> The Recognitions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2548288 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gaddis</div> The Wonders of the Invisible World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2917047 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2917047"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01XK4ZDA50L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Gates</div> Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130044 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130044"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1579125220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Gibbon</div> Dead Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> Doting (Coleman Dowell British Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1333793 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1333793"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564782662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Green</div> Loving (A novel by Henry Green) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393554 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E4VXA8.01-A3S5OU8E68QQXP._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136768653_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Green</div> The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28195 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28195"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322994.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. P. Hartley</div> A Moveable Feast http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336081 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099285045.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477569 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477569"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BMHVSQ.01-A3S5OU8E68QQXP._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Selected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919656 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919656"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0880010991.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504067_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zbigniew Herbert</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">50</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>