Lists of Bests: jas257's "Books to read on my Gap Year" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/41002 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:15:49 GMT en-us 0 50 54 50 0 East of Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2340311 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2340311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Down and Out in Paris and London http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4106 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4106"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015626224X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188886_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> We (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456537 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297462X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yevgeny Zamyatin</div> America's Queen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/833664 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/833664"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140264108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah H. Bradford</div> Lyndon B. Johnson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2829702 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2829702"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01DNFQCDVSL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Dallek</div> Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948130 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948130"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841155675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Ross</div> The Art of Travel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9258 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725342.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain De Botton</div> The Consolations of Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90537 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90537"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140276610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain de Botton</div> The Architecture of Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/252530 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/252530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375424431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain De Botton</div> Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471389 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187476.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Watching the English http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2743835 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2743835"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340752122.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Fox</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Outsider http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019613 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Freakonomics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801406 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813054 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/019lrx4kVJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099578514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28860 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28860"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003065X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rohinton Mistry</div> Lunar Park http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2835118 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2835118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11SGHRT037L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bret Easton Ellis</div> Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308619 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060580542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Evans</div> History and Illusion in Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1875173 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1875173"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521000432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Geuss</div> The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution (Canto) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2846395 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2846395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/016SJAEVT5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Aitchison</div> The God Delusion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624083 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618680004.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> The State of Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/630341 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/630341"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743232216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Meredith</div> Blonde: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47150 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060196076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> A Passage to India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046027X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> Americana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2861537 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2861537"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01J7M1H80VL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Mythologies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753141 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland Barthes</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">31</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> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375504524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429274 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429274"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486299910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641356 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Talbot</div> Presidents http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2939706 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2939706"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01754TMGFHL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen R. Graubard</div> Lady Chatterly's Lover http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1277856 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1277856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FGC2YG.01-AIR1YILJKP5Y._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H.Lawrence</div> Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071693 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014200068X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Rape: A Love Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1206883 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1206883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786714824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1094706716_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3169697 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3169697"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01P7CHQ1P2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. J. Rorabaugh</div> No Country for Old Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972515 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972515"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706674.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> The Road (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307387895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24696178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> The Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337331 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337331"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01VQZHEQKGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tennessee Williams</div> Goddess : The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16455 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Summers</div> Film: A Critical Introduction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3462521 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Pramaggiore and Tom Wallis</div> The Naked Jape: Uncovering the Hidden World of Jokes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3462524 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Appetites: Why Women Want http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169219 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169219"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582432260.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1063758840_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Knapp</div> Civilization and Its Discontents http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/348224 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/348224"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393059952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/655 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/655"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060512180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Wolf</div> Bright Shiny Morning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2973793 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Frey</div>