Lists of Bests: Billhere's "Bill's Reads 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47925 Books read in 2008 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:54:00 GMT en-us 0 50 95 50 0 Heartstopper: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3387311 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joy Fielding</div> Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1068444 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1068444"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EBCPDU.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Zamoyski</div> The Torment of Others http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/711528 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/711528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312936095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Val McDermid</div> A History of the World in 6 Glasses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2747552 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2747552"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000O3S2F8.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42179919_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Standage</div> The French Revolutionary Wars (Essential Histories) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642651 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642651"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1841762830.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Fremont-Barnes</div> The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2361592 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2361592"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140278826.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60957472_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Bank</div> Lines of Torres Vedras 1809-11 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1781443 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1781443"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1841765767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Fletcher</div> Book of the Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3553605 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3553605"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11oUdlPMZzL.jpg" /></a></div> The Seven Year's War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2670418 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2670418"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1579583431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Marston</div> Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3356565 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3356565"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Sp-nWnj4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kriegel</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">11</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> The ABC Murders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019010 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Agatha Christie</div> Body of Evidence: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219667 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219667"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743493915.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Cornwell</div> New York Public Library (r) Guide To Reading Groups, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3559191 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3559191"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01WYSB2HA5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rollene Saal</div> The Communist Manifesto (The Manifesto Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119256 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119256"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0764128388.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084478145_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Boyle</div> Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2850904 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2850904"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01a9%2BHEM%2BaL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald L. Miller</div> 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3015989 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3015989"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11RW8QWKG3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div> Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2227393 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2227393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/078798356X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40881584_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David D. Corbett</div> Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm's Victory Against All Odds (Praeger Illustrated Military History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3757791 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Chartrand</div> Quebec, 1759: The Siege and the Battle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3768477 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3768477"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01pnqUkMqkL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. P. Stacey</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92952 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92952"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BR53YU.01-A2Z42QK87EYWUN._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45526875_.jpg" /></a></div> Become Who You Were Born to Be: We All Have a Gift. . . . Have You Discovered Yours? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289924 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Souza</div> Harvesting Profits on Wall Street: Essays in Investing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1554846 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1554846"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0965301532.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Muhlenkamp</div> A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3656726 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Leckie</div> Washington's Secret War : The Hidden History of Valley Forge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2351543 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2351543"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000GPIL6O.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63282013_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Fleming</div> Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200744 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200744"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706364.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred Anderson</div> The battle for Bunker Hill http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3883978 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard M Ketchum</div> A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3900363 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3900363"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HA9uPw0-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward J. Larson</div> How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52982 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52982"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345422783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Quindlen</div> Thunder from the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1682526 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1682526"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689864043.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Hiatt Harlow</div> Paul Revere's Ride http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4417 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4417"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195098315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Hackett Fischer</div> The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2194334 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2194334"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/047007499X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth L. Fisher</div> The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798107 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Halberstam</div> How to Lie With Statistics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10832 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10832"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393310728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439826_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Darrell Huff</div> Hold Tight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3219370 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harlan Coben</div> Austerlitz 1805 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4003854 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Duffy</div> Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4015989 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4015989"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ndviBZYnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cynthia Cooper</div> Johnstown Flood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969061 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David McCullough</div> The American Revolution, a global war http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1526261 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ernest Dupuy</div> The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2884687 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2884687"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/011pqzdjxjL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana West</div> Dirty Blond http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141367 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lisa Scottoline</div> Phantom Prey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3000123 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Sandford</div> The Broker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1924212 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1924212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385340540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Grisham</div> The Motive (Dismas Hardy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356854 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356854"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451215729.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Lescroart</div> The French Indian War 1754-1760 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4272294 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Marston</div> The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/602371 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/602371"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0306810832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Gates</div> How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3402628 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3402628"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11bTzc2cozL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Shemin</div> Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2874886 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2874886"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/012H1KD2YPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by MP Dunleavey</div> Compulsion - an Alex Delaware novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4368545 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by by Jonathan Kellerman</div> QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60814 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399152334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John G. Miller</div>