Lists of Bests: Asmithar's "Books to Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47562 My list of books I want to read before midnight on December 31, 2008... ...eventually there will be 25 books here and, hopefully, eventually I will have read all 25. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:47:53 GMT en-us 0 50 26 0 0 Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Captain Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2277344 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2277344"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406800163.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rafael Sabatini</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060850523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/648185 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/648185"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297722X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Cordingly</div> Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804587 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01RBMAXdR9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwin A., Abbott</div> Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335841 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335841"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192861891.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michio Kaku</div> The ELegant Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2290 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2290"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/009928992X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Greene</div> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372748 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372748"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151365040.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> 41 Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2298222 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by O. Henry</div> Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358393 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006093638X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Bergreen</div> The Glass Castle: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074324754X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeannette Walls</div> Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (Gwain) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2607075 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2607075"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406805238.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60641575_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056861 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422297_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Marti</div> Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056864 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1056864"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558852042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Marti</div> Wasp Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3350153 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Ensign Evans</div> The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656086 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2656086"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226206386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles S. Elton</div> The Universe in a Nutshell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16232 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16232"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055380202X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen William Hawking</div> The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578039 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674883411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464455_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernd Heinrich</div> Death of a Salesman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147144 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147144"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BU5U40.01-A1UFMIFBRF3M4G._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1201385 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1201385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802714250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Preston</div> Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393926362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/238067 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/238067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gribbin</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Unlearning to Fly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3853400 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3853400"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QKsEnsqzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Brice</div> Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074347712X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Retorno a la libertad / Return to Freedom (Gran Angular) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4025846 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carlos Villanes Cairo</div>