Lists of Bests: accumulative's "books I love" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/54970 I know I'm on here to track music..........but................I can't resist making this list. Simply because these are the books that have had the most impact on my life. Every title here was or still is necessary to my development in some profound way, even if it's vaguely humiliating at times to think back on. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:52:01 GMT en-us 0 50 31 0 0 The Hours: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2835303 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2835303"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01joSPRlVtL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> Borges: Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140286802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Grendel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18657 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18657"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723110.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553698_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gardner</div> Underworld: Scribner Classic Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534833 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2534833"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416548645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42203171_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> The Things They Carried http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2584204 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim O'BRIEN</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2171088 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)</div> Lyrical and Critical Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147398 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147398"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394708520.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800568 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344140 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/344140"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465045219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John R. Searle</div> Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18639 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18639"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464877_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> Suttree http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18805 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18805"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679736328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464913_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> Independence Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18789 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18789"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735186.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54193176_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ford</div> DOCTOR SLEEP. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2277021 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2277021"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747510253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madison. Smartt Bell</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">15</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> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312282990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> Blindness (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3982 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3982"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156007754.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481477 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481477"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452278791.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. L. Doctorow</div> Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3904958 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Baxter</div> On the Road (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Timequake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11959 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425164349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056442153_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Cat's Cradle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107 <div id="position">23</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> Modernism: The Thrill of Heresy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1288325 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1288325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393052052.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38639778_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Gay</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">25</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> The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020142 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020142"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006091307X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Trainspotting http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2711384 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2711384"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099465892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irvine Welsh</div> On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752390 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752390"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/019283617X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Nietzsche</div> The Complete Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8559 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374515360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438171_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> The Denial of Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966646 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0844669326.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Becker</div> WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2672193 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div>