Lists of Bests: siubhanK's "My Personal List of 1000 books to read before I Die" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/42793 books culled from lists, friends, New York Times Reviews and LT Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:42:20 GMT en-us 0 50 902 50 0 A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64948 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64948"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226677141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Powell</div> A Certain Smile http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344407 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francoise Sagan</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1712878 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> A Fine Balance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2349048 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2349048"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571190847.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2712879 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas A. Basbanes</div> A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8794 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375414207.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> A Heart So White http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67036 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811215059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Javier Marias</div> A Home at the End of the World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314540 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314540"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1349539 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1349539"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184981.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421976_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Hines</div> A Man Asleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1512746 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Perec</div> A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage: A Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1082730 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1082730"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393324494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> A Room of One's Own (Great Ideas S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2182940 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2182940"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141018984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120385097_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> A Void (Verba Mundi) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88068 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88068"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567922961.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Perec</div> A Whistling Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19109 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19109"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776907.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> Absalom, Absalom! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018948 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508724.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Absolute Beginners http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2957347 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin MacInnes</div> The Accidental Pope: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75477 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75477"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312282982.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Flynn</div> The acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2959741 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Adjunct: An Undigest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/712395 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Manson</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> After the death of Don Juan (Virago modern classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1930041 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Townsend Warner</div> Afternoon of a Writer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713353 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Handke</div> Albert Angelo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157320 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by B. S. Johnson</div> The All Of It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2956106 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2956106"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21345V7AXNL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeannette Haien</div> All Souls' Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1347972 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1347972"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380791161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Morris</div> An Artist of the Floating World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336102 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336102"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571225365.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Anagrams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020346 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020346"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307277283.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorrie Moore</div> An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163417 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163417"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312277105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> Another World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477197 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477197"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312203977.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Arcanum 17: With Apertures : Grafted to the End (Sun and Moon Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734955 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734955"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1557131708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Breton</div> Ariel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2928342 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2928342"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/013HGEM4NPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Arrow of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9936 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9936"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385014805.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Arthur http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832600 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0310205077.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V48646214_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen R. Lawhead</div> Arthurian Romances (Dover Value Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1979906 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1979906"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486451011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chretien de Troyes</div> As I Lay Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71423 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Asphodel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713215 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/713215"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822312425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)</div> Antic Hay (Coleman Dowell British Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/712364 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/712364"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1564781496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> August Is a Wicked Month http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2956502 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edna Obrien</div> Austria: The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766967 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423303 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423303"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> Balkan Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2706046 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2706046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099427486.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olivia Manning</div> The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/870434 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/870434"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Bel Canto (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> Bell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732204 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732204"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099470489.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Bear Went Over the Mountain: A Novel (Owl Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24528 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805054383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kotzwinkle</div> The Best of Dorothy Parker (Folio Society) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629484 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Parker</div> Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2957580 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18972 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18972"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679755403.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund White</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/554967 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chandler Raymond</div> Big Stone Gap http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/343682 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/343682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345459202.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adriana Trigiani</div>