Lists of Bests: chubacca_alpaca's "Books I've Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46135 I'd like to try to read 52 books this year, averaging one per week. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:12:16 GMT en-us 0 50 54 50 0 Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> The Meaning of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045992 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045992"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1861055943.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bradley Trevor Greive</div> Emma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> One Book Many Brisbanes 2; An anthology of Brisbane stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336507 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brisbane City Council</div> The Moon on the Lake: the Renaissance of the Celtic Spirit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3340204 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caiseal Mor</div> The Road (rough cut) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/429456 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/429456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307265439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> The Lake at the End of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2815460 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline MacDonald</div> Arrival http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785217 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785217"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/014cR+XtesL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shaun Tan</div> The Sea (Man Booker Prize) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59171 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59171"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307263118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> Memoirs of a Geisha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961356 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961356"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Golden</div> Kafka on the Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400079276.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Angels & Demons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1291287 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1291287"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416524797.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Brown</div> The Champions: Two Queensland Embroiderers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578215 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith McKay and Kerry Kleinschmidt</div> The Line of Beauty: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54877 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54877"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582346100.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Hollinghurst</div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/540637 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/540637"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1568461828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/437988 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/437988"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1932100660.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. Colin Campbell</div> A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31027 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570628556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Wilber</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Luck in the Greater West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2929639 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Damian McDonald</div> The Secret River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356676 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356676"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841957976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Grenville</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671727796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70451 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70451"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1061463294_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The Surgeon of Crowthorne http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89621 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89621"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140271287.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> Gilead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031242440X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> Bastard out of Carolina (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14037 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14037"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452269571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Allison</div> Voluntary Simplicity, Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19719 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19719"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0688121195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Duane Elgin</div> Mindful Knitting: Inviting Contemplative Practice to the Craft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24467 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24467"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804835438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tara Jon Manning</div> Unless: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007154615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Shields</div> Soldier of the Mist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015768 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015768"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812558154.01-A1EJKQD72ZO2AP._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47152651_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> Surviving with Wolves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4066790 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4066790"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XBD7YNAVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Misha Defonseca</div> Wilderness Tips http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10325 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230 <div id="position">32</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> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123891143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Soldier of Arete http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/913169 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/913169"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812511557.01-A1EJKQD72ZO2AP._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> Soldier of Sidon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589212 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589212"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765316641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> The Memory Keeper's Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1340771 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1340771"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037145.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Edwards</div> Written on the Body http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18884 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18884"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679744479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910532_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanette Winterson</div> Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6977 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316353000.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Hawken</div> Organic Gardening in tropical climates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5071626 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Liz Sinnamon</div> The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/723 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/723"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060523875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> Sweeping Changes; Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4441455 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Thorp</div> Mao's Last Dancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76322 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425201333.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122540471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Li Cunxin</div> Twilight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804210 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316015849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> I Dream of Magda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2931279 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stefan Laszczuk</div> Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964103 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964103"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gilbert</div> The Gathering http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2881732 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2881732"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/014IFAxP7cL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Enright</div> The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough (American Institute Architects) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3025370 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3025370"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01%2Bovr2az9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Nettleton</div> Mister Pip http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2790276 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2790276"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01AZ9sPp1jL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lloyd Jones</div> Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1151467 <div id="position">49</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> New Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804209 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804209"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316160199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div>