Lists of Bests: 100 Best Scottish Books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55309 Produced by The List, sponsored by Orange and in association with the Scottish Book Trust, the main titles have been selected by the Editor, Prof. Willy Maley, with contributions from many of Scotland's leading contemporary authors. http://www.list.co.uk/articles/100-best-scottish-books/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:34:42 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 A Concussed History of Scotland (Polygons Sigma Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/891566 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Kuppner</div> A Day at the Office (Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945369 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Alan Jamieson</div> A Disaffection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3863823 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3863823"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417HYmJRIYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Kelman</div> A Sense of Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499274 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499274"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330253034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jimmy Boyle</div> A Twelvemonth and a Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945370 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Rush</div> A Voyage to Arcturus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945371 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945371"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MNWI312iL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Lindsay</div> Adam Blair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945373 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945373"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BYnTZQRpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gibson Lockhart</div> Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74915 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74915"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/002353110X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121982830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles W. Hendel</div> An Oidhche Mus Do Sheol Sinn: The Night Before We Sailed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945375 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945375"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414R5Z226PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angus Peter Campbell</div> Annals of the Parish (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945378 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Galt</div> Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5819 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312150601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Atkinson</div> Black and Blue (An Inspector Rebus Novel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51539 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51539"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312966776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Rankin</div> Born Free. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2586395 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2586395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3821808470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132246905_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Hird</div> Brond http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945383 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nC--W11QL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lindsay Frederic</div> Buddha Da http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2953114 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Donovan</div> But N Ben A-Go-Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945384 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945384"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CW7E5032L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Fitt</div> Children Of The Dead End: The Autobiography Of A Navvy (1914) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945386 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945386"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S0iCsO0YL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Macgill</div> Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3222 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3222"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas De Quincey</div> Consider the Lilies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945388 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iain Crichton-Smith</div> Docherty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1123992 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1123992"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340407573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056435052_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William McIlvanney</div> Electric Brae: A Modern Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217667 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217667"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0862417406.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Greig</div> Flemington and Tales from Angus (Canongate Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945389 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945389"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KAQZMXP9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Violet Jacob</div> For the Love of Willie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945390 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945390"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/710NH2Z7JRL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Agnes Owens</div> From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86299 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86299"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142002070.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Fleming</div> Garnethill: A Novel of Crime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23128 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23128"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786708395.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denise Mina</div> Grace Notes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66745 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66745"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393318419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard MacLaverty</div> Greenvoe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695851 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695851"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/190459817X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George MacKay Brown</div> Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2987088 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2987088"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11qvXxTTdYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> Heart of Darkness (Broadview Literary Texts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562393 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562393"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551113074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Hotel World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10568 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ali Smith</div> Imagined Corners (Canongate Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3133906 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Muir</div> Jelly Roll http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945405 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945405"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4125GEC2HTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luke Sutherland</div> JERICHO SLEEP ALONE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945406 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chaim BERMANT</div> Joseph Night by James Robertson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945584 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by </div> The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/221245 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/221245"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565631609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Lanark (Canongate Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2967274 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2967274"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11%2BslnYhIGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alasdair Gray</div> Lilith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3944791 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George MacDonald</div> Living Nowhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779534 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779534"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/018QZVC98NL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Burnside</div> Madame Doubtfire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2389326 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2389326"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140373551.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421031_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Fine</div> Me and Ma Gal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/800745 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/800745"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1842820540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Des Dillon</div> Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1297643 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1297643"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Oliphant</div> Morvern Callar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10305 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10305"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/038548741X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190369_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Warner</div> Mr. Alfred M.A. (Canongate Classic 8) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638152 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Friel</div> Nineteen Eighty-four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499993 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499993"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140126716.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> No Mean City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1742034 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1742034"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0552075833.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. McArthur</div> One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53345 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53345"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802139809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491873_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Brookmyre</div> OPEN THE DOOR! (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3945439 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by CATHERINE CARSWELL</div> Our Fathers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2868145 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2868145"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01oJDjvXueL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew O'Hagan</div> Paradise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/628294 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/628294"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400079454.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.L. Kennedy</div> Psychoraag http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/567731 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/567731"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1845020103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suhayl Saadi</div>