Lists of Bests: skemena's "50 Books in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/54392 Books I have read (or am planning to read) this year. Shooting for 50! Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:03:12 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2814155 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2814155"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/114IKA2SEVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12526 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847614 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Dress Your Best by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847615 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Election http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11970 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11970"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425167283.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Perrotta</div> The Shame of the Nation : The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52887 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52887"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400052440.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> Letters to a Young Teacher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2799905 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2799905"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/013DfhwM-1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> Making Our High Schools Better: How Parents and Teachers Can Work Together http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847616 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847616"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CP37HR5AL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Wescott Dodd</div> The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847617 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Norwegian Wood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9079 <div id="position">10</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> A Separate Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3550987 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3550987"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01XNRKQN9FL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Knowles</div> Teaching as Leadership - Ms. Lora's Story (TFA) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847618 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25852 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25852"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0820323381.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Fuhrman</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346 <div id="position">14</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 Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2906932 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barack Obama</div> East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962174 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962174"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11K9%2B6SmwDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Project Everlasting: Two Bachelors Discover the Secrets of Americas Greatest Marriages http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3924261 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3924261"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vEdVycrQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mathew Boggs</div> Teaching as Leadership (TFA) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006645 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847619 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3847619"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BB1DRNJsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donna Foote</div> Diversity, Community & Achievement (TFA) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4026389 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Classroom Management & Culture (TFA) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4050171 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345391802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Learning Theory (TFA) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4068106 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Secondary Literacy (TFA) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4112217 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78171 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78171"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060809833.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">26</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> Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire by Rafe Esquith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4563204 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390211 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390211"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45217283_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70396 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70396"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067182449X.01-A3O0LYUUM5Z9G6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Winner Takes All http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2446500 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nora Roberts</div> Twilight (The Twilight Saga) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3901389 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> Eclipse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768616 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768616"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316160202.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V25104305_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55235 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55235"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140264078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The House on Mango Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2748100 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra Cisneros</div> New Moon (The Twilight Saga) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3011291 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3011291"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01j8XvQfswL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> The Outsiders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3127 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3127"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014038572X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188731_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by S. E. Hinton</div> Breaking Dawn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4460548 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2841199 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2841199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11zeLDF8CSL.jpg" /></a></div> The Dash by Linda Ellis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5448528 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2955064 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Roach</div> The Call of the Wild http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21834 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753454939.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1330 <div id="position">43</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> Howl's Moving Castle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3610683 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Wynne Jones</div> The Inheritance of Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500468 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> Stargirl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5447031 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5447031"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31bVI076HWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerry Spinelli</div> The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3064 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3064"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140296387.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4531776 <div id="position">51</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Bloom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5529630 <div id="position">52</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5529631 <div id="position">53</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>