Lists of Bests: vaal's "Books to Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46852 Books I'd like to Read in 2008. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:09:10 GMT en-us 0 50 51 50 0 Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449175.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Year's Best Science Fiction, Eighteenth Annual Collection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6033 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6033"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312274785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Forever War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060510862.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Haldeman</div> The House of Mirth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2672438 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2672438"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1598183648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith, Wharton</div> Blankets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34003 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34003"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891830430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Craig Thompson</div> Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709238 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709238"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0785121927.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stan Lee</div> The Jaguar Hunter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30758 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568581866.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucius Shepard</div> Selections from De Quincey; (Athen‘um press series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328889 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas De Quincey</div> The Rebel : An Imagined Life of James Dean http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2303464 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2303464"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000C4SSVM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133327142_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Dann</div> Hail and Farewell: A Trilogy (The Collected Works of George Moore (21 Volumes)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2592300 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Moore</div> Against the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765096 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Mason & Dixon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81861 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81861"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312423209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Crystal World, Crash, Concrete Island [3 Volumes in 1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/201528 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114367 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114367"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425007.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Kingston</div> War Fever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677736 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677736"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435175 <div id="position">17</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> How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/593434 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/593434"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743222334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1111165102_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Coren</div> Memoirs of a Midget http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328891 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328891"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Si0f4mXPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter de la Mare</div> Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200459 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200459"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674009975.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Said</div> The Monk (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752113 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752113"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436030.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Lewis</div> The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4724 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4724"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0201485419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald E. Knuth</div> UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81903 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81903"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130206016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evi Nemeth</div> The Cornelius Quartet: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, The Condition of Muzak http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30756 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30756"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568581831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Moorcock</div> Film Noir Reader 4: The Crucial Films and Themes (Film Noir Reader) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189656 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189656"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879103051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain Silver</div> Cinnabar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328899 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328899"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/114VVM3DKDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Bryant</div> Sabbath's Theater http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/712846 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/712846"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099582015.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Valis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18776 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18776"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464907_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Leaves of Grass (Norton Critical Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328900 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328900"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01AYWSHAXWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> Probability Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/459038 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Kress</div> Red Mars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/455996 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/455996"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007115903.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Stanley Robinson</div> James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/305875 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/305875"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312203853.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julie Phillips</div> Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10989 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Lewis</div> The Oxford Book of Essays (Oxford Books of Prose) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1571681 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1571681"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192840894.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4286 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4286"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192834975.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3167 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3167"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140432159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Richardson</div> The Inheritance of Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987843"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10345 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10345"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385493703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> The Pickwick Papers (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2159396 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9424 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9424"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375761144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Fourth Mansions (Ace SF Special) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008912 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008912"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441245900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139842271_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. A. Lafferty</div> The Female Man (A Women's Press Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2054193 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2054193"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0704347377.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joanna Russ</div> Arthur Mervyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2921586 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2921586"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/110W9iYE-TL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles, Brockden Brown</div> A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268434 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268434"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0543903508.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46664156_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328963 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328963"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01JgM0MJprL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Schapiro</div> The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2840411 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2840411"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01sE5vGOd8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Toobin</div> The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2806802 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2806802"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01iMTecaAsL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Ross</div> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2647818 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Diaz</div> Christine Falls: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328965 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328965"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01tRjIN1dOL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Black</div> The Letters of Noel Coward http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2902443 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2902443"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/018Bm%2BvmZeL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noel Coward</div>