Lists of Bests: jdevault's "Janine's summer reading extravaganza 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58123 I've picked all of these books up over the past couple of years, but haven't had the chance to read them. Time to power through. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:05:09 GMT en-us 0 50 53 50 0 Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2410494 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2410494"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060875070.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heather O'Neill</div> Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29181 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29181"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400082773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66746502_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barack Obama</div> Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/682102 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/682102"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802133479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Ginsberg</div> Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2270329 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2270329"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385661444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vincent Lam</div> Disgrace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775275 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099289520.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46116830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> The Lovely Bones: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7041 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7041"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316666343.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Sebold</div> The Edible Woman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2911587 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/243827 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/243827"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585421774.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan Weisbecker</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77819 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77819"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486268675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Goldsmith</div> love is a mixtape: life and loss one song at a time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765558 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449175.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> What Is the What (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769605 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> Fall on Your Knees : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268101 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2268101"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394281780.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118107119_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann-Marie MacDonald</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">15</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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143703 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/143703"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330258648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9156 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9156"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375707972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141078304_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernhard Schlink</div> The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw (The Penguin English Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3169 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3169"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140432248.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1840224029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Racists http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3204335 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3204335"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11ddXwCMw5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kunal Basu</div> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62788 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62788"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060839872.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1116001347_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert M. Pirsig</div> Tortilla Flat (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477448 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Grapes of Wrath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533220 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533220"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/712N9ZYHZBL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1501378 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503834 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503834"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007XAWS0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James A. Miller</div> Nellie: Letters from Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533221 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elspeth Huxley</div> The Beautiful and Damned (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1849083 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10530 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10530"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720254.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533226 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald A., editor Stauffer</div> The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19428 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19428"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684843323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Beach Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/816843 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/816843"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595910034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39092989_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melcher Media</div> A Complicated Kindness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4196013 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4196013"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DnWgD9ZnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miriam Toews</div> Laws for Creations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/173839 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/173839"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312426070.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> Book of Longing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2311525 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Cohen</div> The King James Bible (with book and chapter navigation) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3800797 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3800797"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y-vqpYa5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Wilderness Tips http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10325 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> My Point...And I Do Have One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2039828 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2039828"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553384228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52133090_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Degeneres</div> She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17673 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17673"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671021001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056463208_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wally Lamb</div> Moral Disorder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148673 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Sleeping with Beauty (Bantam Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/405064 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/405064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055338306X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1099731922_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donna Kauffman</div> Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1740788 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Frankenstein (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/565800 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/565800"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527712.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056444899_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1512602 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533231 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533231"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ADQHB8QSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antony Wild</div> The Lizard Cage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2371830 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2371830"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679313281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64193873_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Connelly</div> Watchmen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4973264 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4973264"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IHf2LN99L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore</div> Chronicles: Volume 1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/274664 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Dylan</div> Sloppy Firsts: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17026 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17026"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609807900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Megan McCafferty</div> Second Helpings: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17027 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17027"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609807919.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Megan Mccafferty</div> Charmed Thirds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018890 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018890"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400080436.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44911752_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Megan Mccafferty</div>