Lists of Bests: dt123's "Books I've Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47220 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:19:39 GMT en-us 0 50 58 50 0 Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038572179X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> The Gathering: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3008845 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Enright</div> A Thousand Splendid Suns http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2409318 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2409318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594489505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44322525_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> How Proust Can Change Your Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456000 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330354914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain De Botton</div> The Master: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743250419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Toibin</div> Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283379 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283379"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000A6U2IE.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Atul Gawande</div> Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31105 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31105"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1571743812.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynn Grabhorn</div> Mister Pip http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2790276 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2790276"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01AZ9sPp1jL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lloyd Jones</div> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159568 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159568"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520228383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Authentic Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/180347 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/180347"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857883292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Seligman</div> Magician http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2561769 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond E. Feist</div> The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528522.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> The Camel Bookmobile: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3504594 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Masha Hamilton</div> Gogo Mama http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528623 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sally Sara</div> The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1102 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1102"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060733993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natalie Goldberg</div> The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46376 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46376"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441038.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> The Road Home http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2677309 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rose Tremain</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62965 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140274219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> The Broken Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3165336 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3165336"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/119oDf1A2NL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Temple</div> Breath: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2981941 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Winton</div> Children Are Civilians Too (Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575613 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575613"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Boll</div> Bridget Jones's Diary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334837 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Fielding</div> Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1040456 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1040456"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753453800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12526 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The Island Of Dr. Moreau http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/744693 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/744693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EK4Y4E.01-A1DTZLTRSPZV06._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47666869_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. G. WELLS</div> Careless http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3918572 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3918572"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518Og0Q5pmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Robertson</div> The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41949 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41949"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618565868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Member of the Wedding http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753407 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753407"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618492399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> A Spell of Winter: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66070 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66070"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802138764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491865_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Dunmore</div> Pegasus in the suburbs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001192 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001192"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1865080012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056532856_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Kremmer</div> Zen Guitar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3562582 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3562582"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0114EQCTDKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Toshio Sudo</div> Sacred Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18190 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671886096.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rose Tremain</div> We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105993 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105993"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002TX4QQ.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lionel Shriver</div> The Buddha of Suburbia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2647 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2647"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014013168X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129165267_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hanif Kureishi</div> The Talented Mr.Ripley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55256 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099282879.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Highsmith</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140280553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> Bridge to Terabithia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171270 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171270"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439366771.01-A4P6RRXZ7PWEV._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Paterson</div> Wise Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3005145 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3005145"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11FfMmy%2BHAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angela Carter</div> El Dorado http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528150 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Porter</div> The Red Queen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/187743 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/187743"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156032708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Drabble</div> A Wrinkle in Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1838150 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madeleine L'Engle</div> Running with Scissors : A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1590690 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1590690"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312938853.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> Burning In http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4930174 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mireille Juchau</div> Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Dover Value Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1329771 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1329771"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486451100.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerome K. Jerome</div> Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143578 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143578"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691096120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45104140_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> Mao's Last Dancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76322 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425201333.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122540471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Li Cunxin</div> On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau's Classic Essay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5332254 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5332254"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31X61HSOvVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> Middlesex: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8458 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8458"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374199698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> Dreamhouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5149323 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Grenville</div>