Lists of Bests: Esther Sutter's "Books Worth Reading" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5045 I've read most of these in the past couple of years. I can't narrow my favorites down to a certain number. Almost every book on the list has offered me something. Reading gives me access to ideas and perspectives. i couldn't live without it. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:51:00 GMT en-us 0 50 73 50 0 The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060528877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> The Magus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978517 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316296198.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> The French Lieutenant's Woman (French Lieutenant's Woman) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795765 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795765"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ESSSL6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55765682_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417959 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138678168_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Soul of Kindness (A Virago modern classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165887 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Taylor</div> Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970277 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970277"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582790663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Man's Search for Meaning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24828 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24828"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807014265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Viktor E. Frankl</div> Myths to Live By http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140194614.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123815545_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91774 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91774"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156612062.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532833_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. G. Jung</div> The Odd Women (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3179 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3179"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140433791.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Gissing</div> The WhirlPool http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165917 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Gissing</div> Life Lines : Holding On (and Letting Go) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165928 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165928"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0807027235.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Forrest Church</div> On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47040 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039575531X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Rogers</div> Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165950 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Wapshot Scandal (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/754 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/754"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060528885.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> Wormholes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978519 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978519"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099272725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> Silas Marner (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165966 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BK1N5U.01-A1N7MK8LUKO8MB._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George eliot</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/135465 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/135465"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1569243794.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1106172341_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Knowlton Zinsser</div> French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79238 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79238"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141181532.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth David</div> An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105174 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558215719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth David</div> Katish: Our Russian Cook (Modern Library Food) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/606293 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/606293"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757619.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wanda Frolov</div> Clementine in the Kitchen (Modern Library Food) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273497 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273497"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Chamberlain</div> The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9414 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9414"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Farrar Capon</div> Cooking with Pomiane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/375635 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/375635"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1897959036.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edouard De Pomiane</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18471 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679424741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553495_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson Mccullers</div> Spoon River Anthology (Hesperus Classics - Poetry) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1022692 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1022692"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1843911086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Lee Masters</div> The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2550 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140062718.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robertson Davies</div> Favorite Works of William Blake: Three Full-Color Books (Dover Thrift) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177524 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177524"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486290867.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blake</div> Come Back to Sorrento http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/539510 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/539510"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1883642264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1094880694_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dawn Powell</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (Modern Library the Movies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9337 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375755292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17156 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17156"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0618127496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077749783_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Childhood and Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489407 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489407"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039331068X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56230614_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik H. Erikson</div> Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189440.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life (Modern Library Food) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72041 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72041"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812971558.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angelo M. Pellegrini</div> Norwegian Wood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9079 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9079"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375704027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679775439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> The Black Prince (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3666 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3666"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142180114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3475 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3475"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186690.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Green Knight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1166061 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3467 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3467"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fernando Pessoa</div> The Bookshop: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11380 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11380"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395869463.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077659685_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> The New York Trilogy : City of Glass', 'Ghosts' and 'Locked Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120878 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120878"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571152236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> The Book of Illusions: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Look Homeward, Angel (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980683 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980683"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684842211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Wolfe</div> Salt: A World History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3574 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3574"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001619.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kurlansky</div> Excellent Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60134 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60134"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452267307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138679648_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Pym</div> Daniel Martin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6959 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316290394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114658441_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> The Voice of the Master (Works of Gibran) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677151 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kahlil Gibran</div>