Lists of Bests: quinnmcalpine's "NPR Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/56959 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:31:12 GMT en-us 0 50 108 50 0 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3932161 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3932161"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qRk6gYi5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Bolte Taylor</div> Say You're One of Them http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369326 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369326"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HyLVYdd9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Uwem Akpan</div> Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and The Betrayal of American Values http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3449878 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philippe Sands</div> A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2979370 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathan Hodge</div> Exiles: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2994284 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Hansen</div> The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369353 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369353"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517-Ty2i39L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Pisani</div> Indefinite Leave to Remain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3509490 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> Disaster: The U.S. and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3532575 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ahmed Rashid</div> Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2558914 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2558914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151003564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532726_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert F. Kennedy</div> RFK: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1426847 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1426847"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560255315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1059689068_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Newfield</div> What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4027191 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4027191"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51c%2BqtCiomL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott McClellan</div> Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107776 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4107776"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FHLjXevNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Morris</div> Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4122338 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4122338"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iyVIQA8IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ginger Strand</div> Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of AmericanChildren's Literature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3210926 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3210926"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PLlGJeZ5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Marcus</div> The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460121 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Robertson</div> The Importance of Music to Girls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3027356 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lavinia Greenlaw</div> Lady of the Snakes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3025223 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3025223"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Na20TYA3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Pastan</div> The Sister http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4038742 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4038742"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21R5YJ9DE2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Poppy Adams</div> The People on Privilege Hill http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3223983 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Gardam</div> America America: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2942358 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ethan Canin</div> Armageddon in Retrospect http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369454 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Boat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3910588 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3910588"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bg2WoeNxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nam Le</div> Havanas in Camelot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369455 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2955064 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Roach</div> The Invention of Everything Else http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506444 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506444"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01IUx3CyYAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Hunt</div> Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506817 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506817"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SC5QaAj%2BL.jpg" /></a></div> Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227617 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227617"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01%2BwTNezPZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susanna Moore</div> The Messiah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369457 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Shadow Country (Modern Library Chronicles) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3010186 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3010186"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01I7Dz4zIUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3504450 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Benfey</div> Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369458 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369458"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fTrhjwXSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Hurd</div> A Cure for Night: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369459 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369459"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KJ%2BI5JlbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Justin Peacock</div> Freddie & Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369460 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Magicians and Mrs. Quent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369461 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> One More Year: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4028393 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4028393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dF8aFoHGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sana Krasikov</div> The Other http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369462 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Pretty Is What Changes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369463 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Wolfman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3580797 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3580797"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01s9crhDTEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Pekearo</div> City of Thieves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369464 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369465 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows</div> The Legal Limit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4263229 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4263229"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zaB5H5U7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Clark</div> Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2996694 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2996694"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/016sc0a5iiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vendela Vida</div> My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekov to Munro http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369466 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Mudbound http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3699891 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3699891"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GLQPLgf0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hillary Jordan</div> Now You See Him http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369467 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Prince of FrogTown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369468 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Secret Scripture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369469 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Barry</div> The Story of a Marriage: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2937687 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Sean Greer</div> Today: 101 Ghazals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369470 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Trauma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2899207 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Mcgrath</div>