Lists of Bests: New Isabella's "Most Influential Books I Have Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/45161 This is an ever-growing list of books that I feel have had the most influence on me as a person. It is arranged in approximate chronological order from childhood through today. _"He revealed a need that she supposed was common to customers in the bookstore, a need to distinguish himself, appear knowledgeable." _ From the short story "Dulse" by Alice Monroe. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:48:27 GMT en-us 0 50 65 50 0 The Golden Book of Fairy Tales (Golden Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844432 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844432"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/030717025X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> A Children's Treasury of Mythology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3067435 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Arabian Nights Pa (Illustrated Junior Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422086 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">4</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 Story of Helen Keller (Signature Books series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3077342 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3077342"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11w8GW0GBfL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorena A Hickok</div> Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299372 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299372"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140367594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Douglas Wiggin</div> Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823936 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Tistou of the Green Thumbs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75680 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maurice Druon</div> Old Yeller (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1559789 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1559789"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935472.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414528_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred Gipson</div> Shackleton's Valiant Voyage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2276397 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred Lansing</div> The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439227143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> Gone With The Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2814627 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2814627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01UbaVAu7xL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659451 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne du Maurier</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Tin Drum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62453 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62453"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000AXS34M.01-A1DI3XXAD7CH18._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter grass</div> Diet for a Small Planet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/156555 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/156555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345373669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Moore Lappe</div> New Aerobics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3068530 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth H. Cooper</div> A Harsh and Dreadful Love - Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2226976 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William D. Miller</div> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980904 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980904"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060589469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert M. Pirsig</div> The Inner Game of Tennis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/134902 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/134902"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679778314.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Timothy Gallwey</div> The Feminine Mystique http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10963 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393322572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betty Friedan</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23706 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Sexual Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225859 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225859"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0252068890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Millett</div> What Color Is Your Parachute http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94990 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94990"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0913668923.01-A2I3O5D7O5BYMM._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bolles</div> Cinderella Complex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3070034 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colette Dowling</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">26</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> Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1151467 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1151467"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> At a Journal Workshop (Inner Workbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1646120 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1646120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0874776384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503051_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ira Progoff</div> How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78298 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451167724.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Lakein</div> Guide for the Perplexed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/294580 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/294580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060906111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. F. Schumacher</div> Vegetarian Epicure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2924095 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Thomas</div> The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119099 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119099"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060833459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter F. Drucker</div> Why I Am Not a Christian (Routledge Classics S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/102737 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/102737"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415325102.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertrand Russell</div> Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13525 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13525"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122542877_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Tyler</div> Blue Highways: A Journey into America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6978 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316353299.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Least Heat-Moon</div> The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224412 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone De Beauvoir</div> An Unknown Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732072 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Villette (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9375 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9375"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037575850X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971105 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971105"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046268X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search for a Life That Matters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/230182 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/230182"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743234731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Kushner</div> Pressed Flower Collages P http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123332 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123332"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0718818679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pamela McDowell</div> Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3158824 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Kirkpatrick</div> Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1545587 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1545587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393307751.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Horney</div> The Bell Jar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53107 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53107"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000B5H6WY.01-A336YHK8BZZDZL._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Ariel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2928342 <div id="position">45</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> TIME- LIFE LIBRARY OF ART THE WORLD OF VAN GOGH 1853-1890 IN SLIPCASE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3158911 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3158982 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3158982"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ABA6JFVKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrienne Cecile Rich</div> Listening to Prozac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3159188 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3159188"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01JEMJVZFNL.jpg" /></a></div> Nothing Special: Living Zen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69089 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Joko Beck</div> Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1830 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1830"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0062512900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414786_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Bender</div>