Lists of Bests: Annie's "Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47213 This list was compiled from many other lists and my own experiences with certain books. As I read through the list I may add or remove books. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:23:13 GMT en-us 0 50 387 50 0 The Arabian Nights http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/897616 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/897616"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393313670.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439842_.jpg" /></a></div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Holy Bible http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66507 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Various Authors</div> The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081450747_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Koran ( Penguin Classics ) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66522 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Revised Translation by N.J. Dawood</div> Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3319 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3319"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447695.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421396_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Torah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274064 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805048200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> ... Wild Bill Hickock (The American adventure series) (The American adventure series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639413 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. M Anderson</div> The king of the mountains, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640235 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmond About</div> Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002919 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8147 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8147"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345453743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Watership Down: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743277708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Prometheus Bound http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219077 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219077"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419143220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> A Death In The Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499790 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BY9FTC.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> The Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Hans Christian Andersen: Stories and Fairy Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285049 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans Christian Andersen</div> The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1037431 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Emma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Persuasion (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3521 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3521"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Sense and Sensibility http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1626945 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639540 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bakeless</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113633744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24198 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24198"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802150918.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491878_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92389 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351933 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351933"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140281606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Georges Bizet: Carmen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/853825 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Bizet</div> Noughts and Crosses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65925 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385600089.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malorie Blackman</div> The Magic Faraway Tree http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/588169 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/588169"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/074974801X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Enid Blyton</div> The Decameron (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Boccaccio</div> Borges: Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140286802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4333 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4333"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761471 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131152354_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Fang and claw, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639624 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Buck</div> On jungle trails (Adventures in English) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1374339 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Buck</div> Bring 'Em Back Alive http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882849 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Buck</div> The Last Days of Pompeii http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639673 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639673"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158715739X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192803611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Secret Garden (Children's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001060 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001060"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517189607.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Hodgson Burnett</div> The Way of All Flesh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166183 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166183"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FFW5TO.01-A2NUIG21S7B7QZ._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Butler</div> Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938547 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julius Caesar</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1187049 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1187049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394533054.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13949"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527747.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96267 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life: As Dictated to Col. and Mrs. D.C. Peters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639574 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639574"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1589760603.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114679833_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kit Carson</div> Paul Celan: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/690061 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Celan</div> Journey To The End Of The Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981521 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981521"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0714541397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129715945_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</div> Adventures of Cellini (Classics illustrated) (Classics illustrated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639786 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benvenuto Cellini</div>