Lists of Bests: Torn1's "Recommended Reading" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/57787 These are the books I recommend whenever someone says "What should I read?". It's not about what you should read but reading widely enough to find what you like. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:44:47 GMT en-us 0 50 53 50 0 Scarecrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/184794 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/184794"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312937660.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Reilly</div> Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4217 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4217"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019280264X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Animal Farm (Easton Press 100 Greatest Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2794634 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Burmese Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4478673 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> North and South (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/383289 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/383289"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192831941.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423252_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gaskell</div> The Hand of Ethelberta (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587417 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587417"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140435026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64544952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Chinese Cinderella (New Longman Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/378431 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/378431"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0582848881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adeline Yen Mah</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307932"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115951817_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222211 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Lewis, C.S.-The Chronicles Of Narnia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539799 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1327 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46992552_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richmond Lattimore</div> Atonement – Ian McEwan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469659 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> the name of the rose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123707 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Shack http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3109941 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William P. Young</div> Sophies World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33282 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33282"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857993284.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jostein Gaarder</div> The Novels of Mr. Samuel Richardson - Pamela or Virtue Rewarded (Vol 1-Part 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2945523 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Richardson</div> The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189467 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189467"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853260401.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Charnwood Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4478674 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Bronte</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2615939 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3151323 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3151323"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01QOtsyivAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040528 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040528"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853262390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056529064_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Nemesis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50226 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50226"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451200187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056444655_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Agatha Christie</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/631641 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> The Outsider http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019613 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Casino Royale (James Bond Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3590 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3590"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014200202X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Fleming</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493231 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel García Márquez</div> The Camel Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88316 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88316"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446577383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Baldacci</div> THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795798 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Like Water for Chocolate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93513 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Esquivel</div> Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783922 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01n-Cyke2mL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rowling J. K.</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4111821 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Memoirs of a Geisha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961356 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961356"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Golden</div> Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1316357 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1316357"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853260738.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62958 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62958"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1581342144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank E. Peretti</div> Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16047 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16047"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/055357339X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122549509_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robin Hobb</div> The Healer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745086 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dee Henderson</div> The War at Troy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691890 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007152558.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lindsay Clarke</div> ON THE JELLICOE ROAD http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784869 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melina Marchetta</div> The Crucible (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicolson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2563222 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Rennison</div> The Secret Life of Bees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67920 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> The Time Traveler's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3756916 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3756916"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01TTT3M7R8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/228713 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/228713"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375828796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1096334176_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tamora Pierce</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1869688 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Gift http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1409477 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alison Croggon</div> Artemis Fowl Book 1 (Artemis Fowl) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2976299 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2976299"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01PniBjHtbL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eoin Colfer</div> Noughts & Crosses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978876 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978876"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552555703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56971549_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malorie Blackman</div> The Blind Assassin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2064479 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1842683 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>