Lists of Bests: hemlockecho's "100 Favorite Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/51101 My 100 favorite books Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:54:04 GMT en-us 0 50 95 50 0 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485539 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485539"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Infinite Jest: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473360 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Cat's Cradle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038533348X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319314 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319314"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Snow Leopard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977222 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> Fight Club: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44360 <div id="position">9</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> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Germinal (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62015 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62015"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447423.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Émile Zola</div> For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Satanic Verses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3009773 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19157 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19157"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679785892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hunter S. Thompson</div> Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060955228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> The Road (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307387895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24696178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1612668 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1612668"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30319 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30319"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/156478181X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flann O'Brien</div> Skinny Legs and All http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15885 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15885"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553377884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Robbins</div> We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5946 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5946"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312243359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Gourevitch</div> I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">22</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> Breakfast of Champions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10122 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10122"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334206.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486266893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882067 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882067"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307277208.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by McSweeney's</div> Look Homeward, Angel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2022548 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2022548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Wolfe</div> How the Universe Got Its Spots - Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space (Science May Reveal That the Universe Is Not Infinite) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3496032 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3496032"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11bR8TcAeXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janna Levin</div> The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9989 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385240880.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439030_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Barth</div> Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464691_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Underworld: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2998014 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2998014"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GEM5QQ4GL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65496 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65496"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Coover</div> Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994268 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994268"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551640961.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blum</div> One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10355 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385495048.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Frank</div> The Crying of Lot 49 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159775 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/159775"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099532611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> L'Assomoir, Emile Zola http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55120 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804587 <div id="position">37</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> Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21022 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21022"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743236017.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Klosterman</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1855525 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1855525"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000GQLCYG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63233008_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Klein</div> On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10222 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10222"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385423756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Kagan</div> The Chronicles of Narnia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79007 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0066238501.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14010 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452260302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Coover</div> The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312265050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9218 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9218"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375714499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward S. Herman</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1330 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060932139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> The Color Purple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671727796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974819 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014028334X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138679407_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div>