Lists of Bests: UK Telegraph's 50 Best Cult Books 2008 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/54575 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:05:36 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">1</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> The Alexandria Quartet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/854315 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/854315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571086098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39962847_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Durrell</div> A Rebours http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1456401 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1456401"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/208070298X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057199977_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joris Karl Huysmans</div> Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21546 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21546"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743476670.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Spock</div> The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/655 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/655"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060512180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Wolf</div> BELL JAR http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639320 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639320"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11DDMGQGWNL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by SYLVIA PLATH</div> Catch 22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684833395.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114049981_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> The Celestine Prophecy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13262 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13262"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446671002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Redfield</div> Dice Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27113 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27113"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879518642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138685034_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luke Rhinehart</div> CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?WAS GOD AN ASTRONAUT? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3013634 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by DANIKEN</div> A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807126063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/895369 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/895369"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1417926856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3491335 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3491335"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01FGVF6T90L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Hogg</div> Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3771050 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3771050"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Nn0izbaML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> Doors of Perception http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2749901 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2749901"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099458209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> DUNE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795750 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Herbert</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753 <div id="position">18</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> The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15909 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15909"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Fear of Flying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3015453 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erica Jong</div> The Female Eunuch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8632 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8632"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374527628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Germaine Greer</div> The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972195 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465026567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314252 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099503093.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Baigent</div> I Capture the Castle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5897 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5897"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312201656.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dodie Smith</div> If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39011 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39011"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857151380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184150_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Iron John: A Book About Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/166829 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/166829"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306813769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Bly</div> Jonathan Livingston Seagull http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993963 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993963"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743278909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bach</div> The Magus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978517 <div id="position">30</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> Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765534 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765534"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46839222_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> The Leopard (revised) (Vintage Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2972187 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2972187"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11wx9TRjNNL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa</div> The Master and Margarita (Oneworld Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3203714 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3203714"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11X7bVQp0-L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> No Logo : Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72549 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72549"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312203438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Klein</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</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">36</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> The Outsider http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3521223 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3521223"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11oDJtFRLVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Wilson</div> The Prophet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1771641 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1771641"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GKVK7G.01-AD96HDWOKL4HU._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by KAHLIL GIBRAN</div> Robert Tressell and The ragged trousered philanthropists http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/396161 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Mitchell</div> The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3625841 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Road to Oxiana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494742 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494742"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195325605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44591390_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Byron</div> Siddhartha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85760 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000CBT0XA.01-AT4N0IDQJ6BDM._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44108259_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753071 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753071"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812969901.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> Story of O http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7466 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7466"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345301110.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pauline Reage</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3061062 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carlos Castaneda</div> Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140188444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vera Brittain</div> Thus Spoke Zarathustra http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3345569 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3345569"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/016Gjhr5E3L.jpg" /></a></div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115951817_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance An Inquiry into Values http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2966228 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert M. Pirsig</div>