Lists of Bests: jillelvish's "Books I've read in 2006" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59359 I read over 100 books a year, and these twenty titles listed here are my 10 nonfiction "best" and my 10 fiction "best" picks from my 2006 reading. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:19:04 GMT en-us 0 50 20 0 0 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19423 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19423"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068484267X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121100615_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank McCourt</div> Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/392586 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/392586"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590171101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jessica Mitford</div> Nicholas and Alexandra http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89879 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89879"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345438310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113625401_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert K. Massie</div> Woman: An Intimate Geography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10392 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10392"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385498411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natalie Angier</div> The Power of Now http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4428852 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eckhart Tolle</div> Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216485 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216485"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060545550.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122938483_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Nagel</div> Even the Stars Look Lonesome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948399 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948399"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553379720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122549029_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/395749 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/395749"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/006251380X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clarissa Pin Estes</div> Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9807 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9807"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380810336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44270802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David D. Burns</div> Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113897 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113897"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592402038.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Truss</div> The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property/In Chancery/To Let (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2296288 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2296288"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184022438X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Galsworthy</div> Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2735097 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.S. Lewis</div> The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43777 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pearl S. Buck</div> Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/242939 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susanna Clarke</div> Brideshead Revisted http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4875306 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (Loyola Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3008607 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3008607"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01dG%2B6X43%2BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rumer Godden</div> The Egg and I http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112063 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112063"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060914289.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betty MacDonald</div> Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22495 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22495"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0765341611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerome K. Jerome</div> Crampton Hodnet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/326887 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/326887"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559212438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Pym</div> Sleeping with Schubert : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29107 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29107"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400060419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by BONNIE MARSON</div>