Lists of Bests: drinkgoodtea's "2008 Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46957 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:16:26 GMT en-us 0 50 38 0 0 Burmese Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3002708 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3002708"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01g0GVOYSRL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Breath, Eyes, Memory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1728028 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwidge Danticat</div> God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470956 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470956"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446579807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Hitchens</div> I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2629612 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2629612"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0838908985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Jacobson Harris</div> Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2402911 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2402911"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307383415.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barack Obama</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834364 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834364"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01eQvKtCkWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Krik? Krak! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175420 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175420"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067976657X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192812_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwidge Danticat</div> Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1420662 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrea Tone</div> Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3929017 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3929017"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UBRzKYgdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by B. W. Higman</div> Axis of Evil World Tour: An Americans Travels in Iran, Iraq, and North Korea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2757139 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2757139"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0595416047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Fisher</div> The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2906932 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barack Obama</div> Night of the Silent Drums http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534554 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Lorenzo Anderson</div> The Library at Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336610 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336610"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01j1Hm4RxOL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alberto Manguel</div> One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534556 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534556"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wCFkAhsCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Kerr Van De Ven</div> The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72468 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099913801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared M. Diamond</div> Surfacing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10320 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10320"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Goodnight Bush: A Parody http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4015988 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4015988"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GLmmggmJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gan Golan</div> The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3907825 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3907825"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510YZKF1CJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Brinkley</div> Index to Murder: A Miss Zukas Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2964072 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jo Dereske</div> Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037571457X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Moral Disorder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148673 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50876 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50876"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375714669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Don't Stop the Carnival : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481472 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481472"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EBCP94.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Wouk</div> Sex, Science, and Stem Cells http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5212087 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5212087"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/217dxbchGdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana DeGette</div> Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3145119 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3145119"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01wtNs%2BZUKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen M. Hornblum</div> Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157872 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157872"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003244X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Bloom</div> This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3356050 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3356050"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Im4wogjTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ehrenreich</div> The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1257168 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1257168"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400062977.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Kelly</div> Maus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2532405 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Pnin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5375056 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5375056"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nfK4mFyJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55235 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55235"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140264078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58740 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58740"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802141676.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherman Alexie</div> Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43041006_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966828 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226014614.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426138_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Lewis Allen</div> The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5447024 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Motz</div> The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4928549 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4928549"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511emyd8DrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sadia Shepard</div> Wandering Star (Lannan Translation Selection Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5372843 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5372843"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v4dN98iPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.M.G. Le Clezio</div> The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4968788 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4968788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518Q3w-K5lL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div>