Lists of Bests: southernbohemian's "2008 Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46775 Although I didn't finish as many as I hoped, last year I made a similar list and ended up reading a lot of previously unread books that I had around the house as opposed to buying new (or new to me) books to add to the pile. So I'm trying it again this year. I added more of my non-fiction books to the list because I was a real slacker when it came to reading them last year. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:42:43 GMT en-us 0 50 88 50 0 The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963020 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963020"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1597400580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Hofstadter</div> All He Ever Wanted: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137620 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137620"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BBS9BU.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Shreve</div> American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663222 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663222"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976665.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Meacham</div> America's Jubilee: A Generation Remembers the Revolution After 50 Years of Independence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/373771 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/373771"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375709185.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438443_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Burstein</div> The Anatomy of Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1427699 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1427699"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394700449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Crane Brinton</div> Andrew Johnson : A Biography (Signature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2460136 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2460136"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0945707223.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans L. Trefousse</div> Anthem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51451 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Back When We Were Grownups http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88056 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88056"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345477243.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Tyler</div> Barchester Towers (Oxford Bookworms Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773492 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773492"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0194230856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46008378_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Trollope</div> Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4545 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4545"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/019516895X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James M. McPherson</div> The Beautiful and Damned (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962115 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743451503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Bel Canto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1361 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1361"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414522_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> Benjamin Franklin: An American Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21184 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21184"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074325807X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Isaacson</div> The Best American Short Stories 2000 (The Best American Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/223109 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/223109"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395926866.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43048994_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Faulks</div> The Blue Flower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11375 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11375"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395859972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> The Bounty : The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1188008 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1188008"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ESSROE.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Alexander</div> Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12030 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12030"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425180840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114051539_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Preston</div> Burr (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1830593 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1830593"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679602852.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gore Vidal</div> Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13328 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13328"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446678457.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lalita Tademy</div> The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/321084 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/321084"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1856351564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John B. Keane</div> City of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159217 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159217"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452282098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. L. Doctorow</div> Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18690 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18690"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679725733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43050197_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Cold Sassy Tree http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2809158 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2809158"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11M+dshEe7L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olive Ann Burns</div> Coming of Age in the Milky Way http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316420 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316420"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/017NQNV7Y2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Ferris</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553265954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> Deep End of the Ocean http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65989 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65989"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451197747.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacquelyn Mitchard</div> The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137916 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137916"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871132893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. P. Donleavy</div> The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9295 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9295"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Packer</div> The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/548440 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/548440"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140196153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tsering Shakya</div> Drop City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> Drowning Ruth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65990 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65990"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/055352853X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Schwarz</div> Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1353078 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1353078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140178945.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blanche Wiesen Cook</div> Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/228629 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/228629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316193658.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Gilchrist</div> The Emperor of Ocean Park http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9190 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375712925.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen L. Carter</div> Empress of the Splendid Season http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/505813 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/505813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060928700.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Hijuelos</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1021759 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1021759"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0771068719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64488 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64488"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840312.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Burney</div> Fidel Castro http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1412013 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1412013"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393313271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert E. Quirk</div> The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65253 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65253"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140185151.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Malamud</div> The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127860 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127860"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618056815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dos Passos</div> Franklin D Roosevelt And The New Deal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73288 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73288"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061330256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William E. Leuchtenburg</div> Gap Creek : The Story Of A Marriage (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2933814 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2933814"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01vfy0fjJHL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Morgan</div> Garden State: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1538141 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1538141"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FVHJAI.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Moody</div> The Historian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/251631 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/251631"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EGF0OG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Kostova</div> The Human Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776400 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776400"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000AS8E78.01-AB5UN3OE9NJC5._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45633273_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Saroyan</div> I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2734567 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2734567"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/086068511X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> The Iliad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/803864 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/803864"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143059289.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/729925 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/729925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0006TZPSW.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1102566698_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Wiencek</div>