Lists of Bests: EW's "The New Classics: Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/56727 100 best reads from 1983-2008 (according to EW, obviously) Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:08:44 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Road (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307387895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24696178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12260 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12260"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439139600.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Liars' Club: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75174 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Karr</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123891143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Mystic River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9633 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9633"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380731851.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122536507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dennis Lehane</div> The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18429 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18429"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679406417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464684_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19048 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19048"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067976674X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> Cold Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/846154 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/846154"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Frazier</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">10</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> Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> Blindness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2603397 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> Watchmen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28020 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28020"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0930289234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130519120_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore</div> Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59052 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59052"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452269865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834364 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834364"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01eQvKtCkWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3818231 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3818231"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BxggpAjnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Rabbit At Rest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1086743 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346 <div id="position">19</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> Bridget Jones's Diary (movie tie-in) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72462 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72462"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141000198.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Fielding</div> On Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21457 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21457"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743455967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3509876 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Díaz</div> The Ghost Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14071 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14071"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452276721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19633 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19633"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068487122X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry McMurtry</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> Neuromancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12791 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12791"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441012035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> Naked http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7101 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7101"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316777730.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> Bel Canto (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> Case Histories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4255178 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4255178"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517y8ejTCBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Atkinson</div> The Things They Carried http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2192095 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim O'Brien</div> Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107578 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107578"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671687425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131998380_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Taylor Branch</div> The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414090 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414090"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> The Lovely Bones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6925 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316168815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Sebold</div> The Line of Beauty: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2712454 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2712454"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000MV8HQ6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47037545_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Hollinghurst</div> Angela's Ashes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3034123 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank McCourt</div> Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9220"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037571457X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Birds of America: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5932 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5932"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312241224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorrie Moore</div> Interpreter of Maladies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979172 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618101365.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jhumpa Lahiri</div> His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The House on Mango Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3082421 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3082421"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0169NVEPZFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra Cisneros</div> LaBrava http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4301045 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4301045"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31BR2cqre5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3960 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156005816.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Monette</div> Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/697078 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/697078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306815176.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Fay Greene</div> Eva Luna (Spanish Language Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319597 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319597"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060951281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> The Sandman (series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/742118 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Gaiman</div> World's Fair: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812577 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812577"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/118ENNtbaOL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1299 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1299"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060930535.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Clockers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3651719 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3651719"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11ZXR207R2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Price</div> The Corrections (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216581 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216581"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374100128.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div>