Lists of Bests: linggeek's "NPR's 'You Must Read This' Column" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59695 Derived from NPR's 'You Must Read This' column. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5432412 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:33:40 GMT en-us 0 50 96 50 0 47 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026453 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026453"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316016357.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Mosley</div> The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18728 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18728"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679730052.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Hobsbawm</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2737902 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2737902"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595404295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> April Morning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1097668 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1097668"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553273221.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Fast</div> The Areas of My Expertise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2998250 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2998250"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11BP2SRNJ5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Hodgman</div> A Christmas Memory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2014196 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2014196"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375837892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Cloud Atlas: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8947 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8947"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39328843_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Mitchell</div> The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10980 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10980"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Babel</div> Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2401688 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> Consider the Oyster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26591 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26591"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865473358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1088270180_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. F. K. Fisher</div> The Dain Curse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2683500 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammet</div> Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32485 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32485"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590170431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Simenon</div> Doctor Zhivago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19091 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19091"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679774386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Boris Pasternak</div> Bram Stoker's Dracula http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50078 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50078"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0763625086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60004059_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> THE PENGUIN ESSAYS OF GEORGE ORWELL (PENGUIN TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3736755 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3736755"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01A8QVYGQCL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by BERNARD CRICK (INTRODUCTION) GEORGE ORWELL</div> The Essential Tales of Chekhov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1450 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1450"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060956569.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110857 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110857"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322730.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div> Fathers and Sons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664643 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664643"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529693.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivan Turgenev</div> The Fire Next Time. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5282136 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5282136"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ZDpTLdvHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James. BALDWIN</div> The Four-Story Mistake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5194287 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5194287"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kY2WIyTfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Enright</div> The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404185 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404185"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400044227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giorgio Bassani</div> Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775146 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775146"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034477.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42827024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Buford</div> His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12528"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4674914 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4674914"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BGyNldbrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11149 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394701577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Loren Eiseley</div> Invasion of the Body Snatchers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/502235 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/502235"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684852586.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Finney</div> Jesus' Son: Stories by http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1524 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1524"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060975776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128453300_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Johnson</div> Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52509 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52509"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195183428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V48705560_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> The Living End (Lannan Selection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/814110 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/814110"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564783421.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Elkin</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">30</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> The Loser: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709098 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400077540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Bernhard</div> Maud Martha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347975 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0883780615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gwendolyn Brooks</div> Member of the Wedding, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578549 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578549"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E7K1D0.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> Middlemarch (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4767073 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4767073"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LNuTNGIqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437247.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422299_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Mr. Ives' Christmas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66865 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060927542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Hijuelos</div> The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure : Curious Stories by Jack Pendarvis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557662 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Pendarvis</div> The Necklace and Other Tales (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/185554 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/185554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757171.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy De Maupassant</div> Neighbors: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/949915 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/949915"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743257960.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Berger</div> The Nine Tailors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4143 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4143"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156658992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy L. Sayers</div> Oh the Glory of It All http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009242 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009242"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036912.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean Wilsey</div> No Sweetness Here and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007754 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007754"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558611193.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056516711_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ama Ata Aidoo</div> Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9013 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9013"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Raban</div> On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19225 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19225"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684800012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold McGee</div> Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (H B J Modern Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151707553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Anne Porter</div> Put Out More Flags http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7152 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7152"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316916056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Quarantine: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5891 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5891"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312199511.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Crace</div> The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38139 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38139"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039024.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32228 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32228"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1585673269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056524618_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Roth</div> Replay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19763 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19763"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/068816112X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124905754_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Grimwood</div>