Lists of Bests: justarodeoclown's "Books I've Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/46966 The books I've read so far in 2008. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:52:11 GMT en-us 0 50 83 50 0 Kafka on the Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736 <div id="position">1</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> The House on Mango Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500787 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500787"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747560870.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120711221_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra Cisneros</div> Dawn (Xenogenesis) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13130 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13130"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446603775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Octavia E. Butler</div> Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39253 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39253"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060512741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> Sweet Machine: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1419 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1419"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060952563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414548_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Doty</div> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Millennium SF Masterworks S) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75980 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75980"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857988132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13131 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13131"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446603783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Octavia E. Butler</div> The Glass Menagerie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25144 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25144"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811214044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tennessee Williams</div> Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32319 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32319"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586481983.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muhammad Yunus</div> Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15721 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15721"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055327418X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057191829_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Brin</div> Jonathan Livingston Seagull http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993963 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993963"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743278909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bach</div> The Last Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355624 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355624"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593761430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Markson</div> The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15757 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15757"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553279718.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910844_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Brin</div> Fences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2628286 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by August Wilson</div> Legend (Drenai Tales, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7699 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345379063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Gemmell</div> The Silmarillion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1459999 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1459999"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007173024.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> The Death of Ivan Ilyich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65103 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65103"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553210351.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1078345247_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Nova http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9136 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9136"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706704.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel R. Delany</div> Flatland (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864849 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864849"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G5aZXTf-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwin Abbott</div> The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619918 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Sachs</div> Einstein Intersection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25833 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25833"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0819563366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel R. Delany</div> Vanishing Point: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32814 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593760108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Markson</div> Thirst: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2842525 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2842525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01UFZL%2BEykL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Oliver</div> The Man in the High Castle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18853 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18853"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679740678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56210020_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Best American Non-Required Reading 2006 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779007 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ed. Dave Eggers</div> The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2594274 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3604168 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3604168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11CD0143H4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Karsh</div> Microserfs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1561 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060987049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Coupland</div> The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths, The) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356248 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841957984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2721310 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2721310"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416534733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Coraline http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3618478 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3618478"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01HE4T4PNTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Gaiman</div> Shadow of the Torturer (Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014656 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11034 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11034"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393967972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Different Ways to Pray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120654 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Shihab Nye</div> The Claw of the Conciliator (Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2554411 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> The Sword of the Lictor - Volume Three of the Book of the New Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3905263 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354751 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0292715498.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Citadel of the Autarch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17832 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17832"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671496662.01-A225UMUJKH113X._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44414627_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Wolfe</div> We (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456537 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297462X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yevgeny Zamyatin</div> Joe Turner's Come and Gone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656910 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by August Wilson</div> The Glass Key http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/281614 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/281614"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722629.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1105877290_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> The Piano Lesson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2764238 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by August Wilson</div> Lord of Light http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/135560 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/135560"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060567236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Zelazny</div> The Road (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307387895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24696178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4245309 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary K. Wolfe</div> Maps and Legends http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2965177 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2965177"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11HWP53UsrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> The 101 Best Graphic Novels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94234 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1561632848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Weiner</div> Farewell, My Lovely http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11236 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11236"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121695157_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Radio Golf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2683349 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by August Wilson</div>