Lists of Bests: PretentiousAcademian's "Books I Want to Read... Eventually..." http://www.listsofbests.com/list/57183 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:34:22 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1049674 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1049674"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1564145492.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tina B. Tessina</div> Dream Deferred http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2340494 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Langston Hughes</div> The Tale of Despeareaux http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2629591 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate DiCamillo</div> The Westing Game http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018208 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018208"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FAWBPC.01-A1X90SEW99DK3G._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Raskin</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1966126 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1966126"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1598186655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet, Beecher Stowe</div> The Alchemist (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1734034 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10276 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10276"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385480016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Lamott</div> Catch-22 (1961) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619545 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71109 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">11</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> The Jane Austen Book Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2832398 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Joy FOWLER</div> Mythology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6974 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6974"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316341517.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Hamilton</div> Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953485 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elie Wiesel</div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145435 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/925845 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330645 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Because of Winn-Dixie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2120410 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Borrowers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834255 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Norton</div> Frindle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19857 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19857"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689818769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057606285_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Clements</div> The Judy Moody Totally Awesome Collection (Judy Moody) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3130751 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3130751"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01XQ-eTQKZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Megan Mcdonald</div> Stuart Little http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3903567 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3903567"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nCgE09S%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. B. White</div> Treasure Island http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2303633 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2303633"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0954510364.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Walk Two Moons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105439 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060560134.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52376263_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sharon Creech</div> Define "Normal" http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7063 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7063"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316734896.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julie Anne Peters</div> The Giver http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12522 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12522"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440237688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39215717_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> The Outsiders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3127 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3127"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014038572X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188731_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by S. E. Hinton</div> Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/197396 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W. Loewen</div> The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24295 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24295"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802841805.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark A. Noll</div> How to Forgive: A Step-By-Step Guide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4403922 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4403922"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XPYYZ4NCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Monbourquette</div> Forgive to Live: How Practicing 3 Levels of Forgiveness Will Save Your Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2196580 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2196580"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159145543X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dick Tibbits</div> How to Forgive Yourself and Others: Steps to Reconciliation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3484859 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3484859"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01BE8EG90FL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eamon Tobin</div> For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94042 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590523172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shaunti Feldhahn</div> Better Homes and Husbands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1389547 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1389547"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312330634.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valerie Ann Leff</div> The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31743 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31743"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580086012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Phineas Mollod</div> Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543668 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1543668"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585425141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45217689_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erica Jong</div> Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4036 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4036"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422655_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.S. Lewis</div> Using Your Money Wisely: Biblical Principles Under Scrutiny http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3435537 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3435537"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/110XY4JWFPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry Burkett</div> The Girl of Lost Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2657644 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Brashares</div> Digging to America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1589268 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Tyler</div> The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2660884 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2660884"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000N0205K.01-A1RIQS0JBJ0NGN._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47078083_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2551762 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2551762"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1401308937.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V49823114_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Teri Hatcher</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1132083 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> The Mermaid Chair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/491747 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/491747"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036696.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> The Kite Runner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1004898 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Goodbye Nobody by Jennifer Weiner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2939871 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Undomestic Goddess http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1878049 <div id="position">51</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophie Kinsella</div> The Five people you meet in heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84947 <div id="position">52</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3894573 <div id="position">53</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3894573"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31%2BnkbSw7AL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Piero Ferrucci</div>