Lists of Bests: mike247worldwide's "Lists of Books for 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47009 The follow-up to LOB 2007. Leaving to Botswana with the Peace Corps in April. So it won't be the 130-book killer of last year. Probably... Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:08:17 GMT en-us 0 50 107 50 0 Cities of the Plain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2806174 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2806174"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Y6YJJW4FL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> Things Fall Apart: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801141 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801141"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01BYDf3igQL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/562344 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/562344"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120388348_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Sontag</div> Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/436784 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/436784"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465087604.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056445311_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Klitgaard</div> Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/459212 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/459212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594862621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Brant</div> Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962869 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Gentlemen of the Road [CD] (Audiobook) [UNABRIDGED] http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3443556 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3443556"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/111oqHbcLuL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> How to Be Alone: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60066 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60066"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000BYPNO.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Memory Keeper's Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1340771 <div id="position">9</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> Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/401099 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/401099"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520229134.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Farmer</div> 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2827418 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2827418"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11fXUY39mHL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephanie Nolen</div> This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3142360 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3142360"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01hKaRRwC5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Drew Gilpin Faust</div> Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - or War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/710058 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/710058"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555878342.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary B. Anderson</div> Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364256 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364256"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0896086380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie</div> Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28881 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28881"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander McCall Smith</div> AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15066 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520083431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Farmer</div> The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38205 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38205"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618562117.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Roberts</div> The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (The Best American Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2973138 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2973138"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Y6WeWBuIL.jpg" /></a></div> How Europe Underdeveloped Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27245 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27245"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0882580965.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Rodney</div> Chinese Proverbs (Little Books Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624300 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624300"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/117MF5QNJHL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruthanne Lum McCunn</div> Africa in History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2669051 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2669051"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842122460.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Basil Davidson</div> The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786471 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Q54Dv1CLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Ferris</div> Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3648 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3648"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0142004278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1068667035_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Wallace</div> Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1845912 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robin Wright</div> The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3735251 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3735251"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11c5V9XzB-L.jpg" /></a></div> The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2704963 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yaroslav Trofimov</div> Apocalypse 2012: An Optimist Investigates the End of Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3761354 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3761354"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11MFCPMYJ6L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence E. Joseph</div> Taking Away the Distance: An African AIDS Orphan and His Crusade to Unite Children Orphaned by the Epidemic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3786579 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3786579"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xfXF3GpNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miles Roston</div> Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3606762 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Erdman</div> Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17164 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618134247.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077846327_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Theroux</div> The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922167 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922167"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GLuttfJKL.jpg" /></a></div> Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798065 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Z1T99A2WL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George B.N. Ayittey</div> Water for Elephants http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020443 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020443"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565125606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Gruen</div> Future Shock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1153102 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1153102"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ER36GO.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alvin Toffler</div> And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2964570 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randy Shilts</div> Siddhartha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3549875 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3549875"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01balTXwp%2BL.jpg" /></a></div> BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218055 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FJ9CGY.01-AIR1YILJKP5Y._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> No Great Mischief: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9287 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9287"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alistair Macleod</div> The Big Questions: A Buddhist Response to Life's Most Challenging Mysteries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680282 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680282"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594862087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lama Surya Das</div> In a Sunburned Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22637 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22637"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767903862.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> Reinhold Messner, Free Spirit: A Climber's Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1710225 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1710225"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0898865735.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reinhold Messner</div> Cat on the Edge: A Joe Grey Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299929 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299929"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061056006.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46980713_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Rousseau Murphy</div> Peoples Voice: Black South African Writing In the Twentieth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4190651 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4190651"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517XD06ST0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Piniel Viriri Shava</div> The Time Traveler's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772104 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772104"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000OP2RSO.01-A2D7TTN6VOYI9V._SCTHUMBZZZ_V23110390_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4242093 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4242093"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CPsxzoi5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Jeal</div> A Few Days More--: The Story of a Young Woman Living with HIV in Botswana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4246020 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Koblanck</div> I Was Told There'd Be Cake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3750851 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3750851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11l0G1nQ0RL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sloane Crosley</div> Nervous Conditions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3151995 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3151995"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01z%2BB15E22L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tsitsi Dangarembga</div> Waterloo (#11) (Sharpe's Adventures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/262220 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/262220"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140294392.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Cornwell</div> The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3379407 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3379407"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01N8Cz1MnSL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Shields</div>