Lists of Bests: drinkgoodtea's "2009 Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59609 Books I've read or am reading in 2009. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:20:55 GMT en-us 0 50 52 50 0 Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1746976 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1746976"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805057234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ehrenreich</div> The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Latin American Histories Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3465236 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3465236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ED356QF0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franklin W. Knight</div> A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118086 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0201622319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kurlansky</div> The Taqwacores http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5505363 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5505363"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61QXp9c0srL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Muhammad Knight</div> Disgrace: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4568851 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4568851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51El7jOtm5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Case Histories: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4050212 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4050212"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418DMndvPVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Atkinson</div> The Dew Breaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45832 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45832"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034299.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwidge Danticat</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/925845 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5819 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312150601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Atkinson</div> The Hakawati http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206454 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rabih Alameddine</div> Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance And Accommodation, 1838-1920 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5559372 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5559372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q7z1mliXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lamarsh Roopnarine</div> Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894299 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2894299"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11OBTbOaMvL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Taibbi</div> The International Banana Trade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5964982 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5964982"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417QEM63Q1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Roche</div> Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5964963 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5964963"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415HgqnuodL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Koeppel</div> The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization (At Table) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4122227 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4122227"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Odhzj1F4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Wiley</div> The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64591320_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1282447 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1282447"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113627452_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Volk</div> Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38893 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38893"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973743X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Fonseca</div> A Lion Among Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5345832 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Maguire</div> The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013207 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013207"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080505295X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David King</div> How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3701816 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Raymond</div> Anticancer, a New Way of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4224572 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4224572"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cZ5EBUvhL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by MD, PhD, David Servan-Schreiber</div> Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6522654 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6522654"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f562Lr9WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Reding</div> Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3659332 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3659332"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01sF8Q4fNGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kao Kalia Yang</div> Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2879493 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2879493"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11k3%2BSom8pL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mildred Armstrong Kalish</div> The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2845452 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2845452"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01kDOLh-9GL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Ackerman</div> Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7032463 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7032463"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qm3YgJgyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martha A. Sandweiss</div> Political Brain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3130428 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Drew Westen</div> The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1125924 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1125924"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465056520.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44142105_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce D. Perry</div> Things I've Been Silent About http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3668099 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Alexandria: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7034646 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7034646"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Xuo2JfAsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lindsey Davis</div> Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States Since 9/11 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7377833 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7377833"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tJJs2L9WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546749 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2546749"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374105235.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45148870_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ishmael Beah</div> The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6156935 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6156935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EMYx-H2oL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Ann Shaffer</div> Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786834 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786834"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SBWYKG6ML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Beth Pfeiffer</div> Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980206 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980206"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586483781.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azadeh Moaveni</div> The Elder Gods (The Dreamers, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81029 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81029"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446613339.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Eddings</div> "In Case Atom Bombs Fall": An Anthology of Governmental Explanations, Instructions and Warnings from the 1940s to the 1960s http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7379039 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7379039"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wyA1QUJcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Scheibach</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013249 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013249"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618773479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Egan</div> The Forever War (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6169882 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6169882"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xj%2BSD8dxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dexter Filkins</div> Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23101 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23101"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786416084.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6355582 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6355582"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514GH%2BcALzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Schaffer</div> Mirror Mirror: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1578 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1578"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060988657.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Maguire</div> The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5797379 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5797379"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b7KygQQ0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Weiner</div> I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye (Updated Edition): Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4312484 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4312484"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LfGHZt73L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pamela Blair</div> Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3264040 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Radosh</div> The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6012955 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6012955"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Yu6nby5PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Roose</div> Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6638721 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ehrenreich</div> The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7381888 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7381888"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51U%2B1tsQWRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Krugman</div>