Lists of Bests: rickburke10's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55741 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:36:43 GMT en-us 0 50 84 50 0 Empire of the Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47117 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47117"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743265238.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400097029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> The Untouchable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19055 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679767479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> Regeneration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452270073.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132610379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Arthur and George http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1430002 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1430002"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400097037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Barnes</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">6</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> Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113035 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113035"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739452061.01-A3BAC4KR55G5HT._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Boyle</div> Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805066691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dee Brown</div> A CLOCKWORK ORANGE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2690024 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740055 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0749397675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Olen Butler</div> The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18718 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18718"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729453.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Caro</div> Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18761 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18761"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067973371X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Caro</div> Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11098 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11098"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394528360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by ROBERT A. CARO</div> The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11181 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11181"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394720245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Caro</div> A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28187 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28187"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322471.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.L. Carr</div> Spartina http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/689985 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/689985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375702687.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438405_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Casey</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273632 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Disgrace (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition) (Penguin Essential Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336794 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91775 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91775"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865475105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evan S. Connell</div> The Barrytown Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140252622.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roddy Doyle</div> A Star Called Henry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3262458 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roddy Doyle</div> The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (New York Review Book Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2844494 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2844494"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11uVq4MFSyL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G.B. Edwards</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Middlesex: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312422156.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> The Studs Lonigan Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619628 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James T. Farrell</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Bookshop: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11380 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11380"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395869463.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077659685_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10195 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10195"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385413726.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> My Century: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2083930 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2083930"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/015100496X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1116223477_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> I, Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2907651 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199559 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192824252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The tie-in: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1021107 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1021107"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060845309.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Hijuelos</div> Seabiscuit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970820 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970820"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345465083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Hillenbrand</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3591208 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3591208"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Fi5Pg2zyL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Middle Passage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4392913 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244435 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244435"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312060270.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div> Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962604 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962604"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743270754.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div> WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR: A MEMOIR http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3253825 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3253825"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/016GA2HC0BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div> Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3535 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ross King</div> Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3823800 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3823800"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51i7VjBcWYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryszard Kapuscinski</div> Interpreter of Maladies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2190818 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jhumpa Lahiri</div> All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18883 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679744398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081537713_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618526412.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Charming Billy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10102 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10102"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038533334X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119309115_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Mcdermott</div> All Will Be Well: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53682 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53682"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400044960.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Mcgahern</div> That They May Face the Rising Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16376 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16376"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571212212.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McGahern</div> The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41112 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375413316.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943467 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151593 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div>