Lists of Bests: vaal's "Unread books I own" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5234 hmm... I need to stop buying books faster than I read them... Inasmuch as I've been doing so for 20 years, this will be a LONG list... Might as well stop at 150 titles and then see if I can read some... Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:20:25 GMT en-us 0 50 145 50 0 Blankets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34003 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34003"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891830430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Craig Thompson</div> The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/871084 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harlan Ellison</div> The Book of Musical Documents http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1199117 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Nettl</div> Shadow and Act http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18999 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18999"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679760008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464984_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Time Stream (The Garland Library of Science Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/679103 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Temple Bell</div> a way home http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1199132 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Sturgeon</div> a shot in the dark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1199193 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Merrill, ed.</div> Bleak House: An authoritative and annotated text, illustrations, a note on the text, genesis and composition, backgrounds, criticism (A Norton critical edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124910 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Best of Frederik Pohl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/124852 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederik Pohl</div> War Fever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677736 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677736"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132803 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132803"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cornell West</div> Bad Beats and Lucky Draws: Poker Strategies, Winning Hands, and Stories from the Professional Poker Tour http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/425891 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/425891"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740833.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Phil Hellmuth</div> Summerland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88157 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88157"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BBS9C4.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> A New Dominion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/643136 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</div> picture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200016 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian Ross</div> Nothing; Doting; Blindess (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393556 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393556"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140186921.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Green</div> Concluding (British Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/577062 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/577062"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564782530.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Green</div> Back http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981081 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Green</div> Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/533670 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/533670"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679433031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeremy Treglown</div> Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393553 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Green</div> The War in the Air http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200216 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200216"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141441305.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. G. Wells</div> Far Rainbow: The Second Invasion from Mars (Macmillan's Best of Soviet science fiction series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/151866 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arkady Strugatsky</div> The White Abacus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200227 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200227"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380974762.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Damien Broderick</div> The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200228 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meriwether Lewis</div> Arthur Mervyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200237 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200237"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0873387384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Brockden Brown</div> Fourth Mansions (Ace SF Special) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008912 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008912"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441245900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139842271_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. A. Lafferty</div> The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist's Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200246 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0820320277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Bartram</div> How to Be Good http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31275 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573229326.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521600_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> Newcomes (Everyman's Library (Paper)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200253 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200253"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0460874950.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Lincoln and Seward: Remarks upon the memorial address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the late William H. Seward, with incidents and comments illustrative of ... of the late President and secretary of state http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200261 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gideon Welles</div> The Blackboard Jungle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874353 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/874353"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743493680.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66746510_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evan Hunter</div> Generation of Vipers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200274 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200274"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564781461.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056518713_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Wylie</div> Woman's View, A: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11120 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanine Basinger</div> Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/296233 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/296233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566635268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Budd Schulberg</div> Hollywood on trial;: The story of the 10 who were indicted http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200287 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gordon Kahn</div> Some Must Watch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200296 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Ransome</div> Pemmican http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200306 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vardis Fisher</div> Language, Truth and Logic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67189 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67189"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486200108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred J. Ayer</div> The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974409 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hayden Carruth</div> Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106897 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106897"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060540184.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130360304_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sharon Waxman</div> autobiography of frederick the great http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200333 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Basic Writings: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (1964) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060637633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414437_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Heidegger</div> Mickelsson's Ghosts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1020801 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gardner</div> Bird Alone (Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200347 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean O'Faolain</div> Omnibus of Science Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200356 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Batman and Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200362 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Kane</div> Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Second Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24662 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24662"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805075593.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chalmers Johnson</div> Doctor Thorne (World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200368 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Trollope</div> Four Plays: The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, Jack or the Submission, The Chairs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/853496 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugène Ionesco</div> The Ring And The Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200381 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1200381"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1419180622.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Browning</div>