http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58348 "The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations. The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their 30th birthday." http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/08/11/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-their-30th-birthday/ Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:48:30 GMT en-us 0 50 32 0 0 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969058 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570627215.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/330830 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94134 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494174 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2760601 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154416 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154416"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528891.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Paine</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960923 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960923"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11mBjFmqrkL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990081 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990081"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0811201023.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Merton</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495808 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495808"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66859713_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1677585 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1677585"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599869772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sun-tzu</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17222 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17222"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618260587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42219544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43265 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43265"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156332256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422686_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534611 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Machiavelli</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2190677 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/507427 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/507427"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/052148443X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Allen</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17702 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17702"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671027034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dale Carnegie</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151700 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795760 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3944314 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1300635 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1300635"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471789186.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V51953388_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Bittman</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42206 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42206"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312320906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Wisner</div>