Lists of Bests: kurage's "Books I Will Read Again" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/41487 Honestly, I'm not sure how they did it. Could you write any of these books? Of course not. You'd have to spend an entire lifetime secluded in your hermetically sealed room that protects you from allergens and the other pitfalls of the outside world dreaming of walking the streets and falling in love with a girl (or boy) in a sweater set to even have the nerve. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:07:13 GMT en-us 0 50 38 0 0 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312282990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> Mason and Dixon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/883774 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/883774"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099771918.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110571584_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Middlesex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1725265 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1725265"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747564485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120712353_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060593083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42050 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42050"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060733357.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45788 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45788"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0009K76DA.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33683 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33683"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1883011086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33682 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33682"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1883011078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Mother Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10120 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2496647 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Phillip K Dick</div> Count Zero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962240 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962240"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441013678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2298 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099448785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Coin Locker Babies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35002 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35002"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/4770028962.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryu Murakami</div> Against the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765096 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352257 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352257"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0224063979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Grass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33269 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33269"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857987985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sheri S. Tepper</div> The Cat Who Walks Through Walls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12813 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441094996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> Dune http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2735058 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2735058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340839937.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> Butcher Boy, the http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795673 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795673"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01F9KPP2BZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCabe</div> The Tin Drum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480321 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2514637 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2514637"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330347292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenzaburo Oe</div> A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24192 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24192"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802150616.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenzaburo Oë</div> High Society (Cerebus, Volume 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75408 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75408"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0919359078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Sim</div> Church & State I (Cerebus, Volume 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75409 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75409"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0919359094.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Sim</div> Church & State II (Cerebus, Volume 4) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75410 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75410"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0919359116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Sim</div> Baudolino http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4061 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4061"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156029065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435175 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435175"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860465811.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> Infinite Jest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316066524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732969 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yukio Mishima</div> A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42054 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767923227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> Solaris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4034 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4034"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027607.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanislaw Lem</div> Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128457 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128457"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375703756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Sturgeon</div> Perfume (MTI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/436837 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/436837"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307277763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Suskind</div> The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6015 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6015"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312270828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202 <div id="position">36</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> Blue Spring, Volume 1 (Blue Spring) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2627835 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2627835"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591166454.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1112658917_.jpg" /></a></div> No. 5, Volume 2 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1819480 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1819480"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591160561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62202177_.jpg" /></a></div>