Lists of Bests: theoffshorepirate's "List of Books to Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/49779 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:12:51 GMT en-us 0 50 133 50 0 Black Hole http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2956217 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Burns</div> The Book of Saladin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/440263 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/440263"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1859842313.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tariq Ali</div> Luncheon of the Boating Party http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3236166 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3236166"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/118O%2B2AzBtL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Vreeland</div> The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675069 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Atonement (MTI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3174640 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3174640"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/019p3q0TlXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div> Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964103 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964103"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gilbert</div> Fight Club: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Lullaby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10570 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385722192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098727946_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Diary: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28901 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28901"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032814.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Survivor: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10395 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385498721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Choke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56307 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56307"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385501560.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Blindness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2603397 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> Stardust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1115796 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Gaiman</div> The Blood of Flowers: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3047919 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3047919"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01rJv5MCbVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Amirrezvani</div> Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4532954 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennie Shortridge</div> The Royal Tenenbaums http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16383 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16383"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571215459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wes Anderson</div> The Picture of Dorian Gray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2271069 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> The Amnesiac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4577947 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4577947"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nx2EMb-CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Taylor</div> Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202889 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202889"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> One hundred years of solitude Gabriel García Márquez http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775095 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4838135 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4838135"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BqaJsZS0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> TENDER IS THE NIGHT http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619621 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Bliss: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2906343 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2906343"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01DZsXYwywL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by O.Z. Livaneli</div> The Bookseller of Kabul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6916 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6916"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316159417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Asne Seierstad</div> The Visible World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2586361 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2586361"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618756434.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44594710_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Slouka</div> Pomegranate Soup: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025849 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025849"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812972481.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39328723_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marsha Mehran</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060977493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/594140 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yann Martel</div> Inventing the Abbots and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1286 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1286"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123869543_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Miller</div> The Shoe Queen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2757209 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Davis</div> Man Walks into a Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2202790 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2202790"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141021152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicole Krauss</div> The Elegance of the Hedgehog http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006061 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006061"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418vh%2BXkkIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Barbery</div> Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71109 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> everything is illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2724757 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by jonathan safran foer</div> The Future Dictionary of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/260457 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/260457"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1932416420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Fixer: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8654 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8654"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529388.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Malamud</div> Power of One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23751 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/034541005X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43054613_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bryce Courtenay</div> The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2851132 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2851132"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11S4REJFWFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eva Rice</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> The Queen of the South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356191 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356191"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330413147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44824475_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arturo Perez-Reverte</div> To the Holy Shrines (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5580984 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5580984"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ADG4B7SJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Burton</div> The Customs of the Kingdoms of India (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962946 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962946"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0141WgAKPEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marco Polo</div> In the Heart of the Amazon Forest (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3197931 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3197931"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01cVNQa%2BIJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Walter Bates</div> Jaguars and Electric Eels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812406 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander von Humboldt</div> The Shipwrecked Men (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3558514 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3558514"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11kUYjmnDKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca</div> Can-Cans, Cats and Cities of Ash (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3382024 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3382024"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PH55KTPCL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Life on the Golden Horn (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4777693 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4777693"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WHCSMYBVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu</div> From the Meadows of Gold (Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3750934 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3750934"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01887CS7YNL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mas'udi</div> Across the Empty Quarter (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4014719 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4014719"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R73PA8FJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilfred Thesiger</div> Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes (Penguin Great Journeys) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5458402 <div id="position">52</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5458402"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51442HVFWTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Dampier</div>