Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Big Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60657 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:19:41 GMT en-us 0 50 130 50 0 The Secret History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71029 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donna Tartt</div> The Alienist: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978030 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978030"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976142.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caleb Carr</div> An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451527704.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Roots http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2715655 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Haley</div> Bad Love (Alex Delaware) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110009 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110009"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345460723.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kellerman</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13527 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Leamer</div> Women Who Run with the Wolves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7827 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7827"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345409876.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clarissa Pinkola Estes</div> Mozart: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513551 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513551"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maynard Solomon</div> Fatal Vision http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489446 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489446"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451165667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe McGinniss</div> The Tunnel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65498 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65498"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564782131.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Gass</div> Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21097 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743246985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jung Chang</div> Eyes of a Child http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7729 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7729"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345386132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436990_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard North Patterson</div> JFK, reckless youth / Nigel Hamilton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4442539 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nigel Hamilton</div> A Diary of the Century: Tales by America's Greatest Diarist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283311 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568360800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Robb Ellis</div> Lincoln http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19324 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068482535X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47025583_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Herbert Donald</div> Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981585 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981585"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Simon</div> Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Faber Fiction Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1695679 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1695679"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571203086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vikram Chandra</div> Anne Sexton: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18859 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18859"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679741828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Middlebrook</div> William Trevor: The Collected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2857 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2857"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140232451.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Trevor</div> Battlefields and Playgrounds (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851194 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851194"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/119W6GFEQ6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> A Civil Action (Vintage Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19086 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19086"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679772677.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39952991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Harr</div> The Hellfire Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335383 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335383"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345477278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Straub</div> The Thorn Birds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222248 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222248"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060837551.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colleen McCullough</div> A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28860 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28860"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003065X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rohinton Mistry</div> Antarctic Navigation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5315623 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5315623"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31%2BeJyxObxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Arthur</div> Children of the Holocaust (Jewish Lives) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1570569 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1570569"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0810112795.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnost Lustig</div> Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Trium ph of Philip Morris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66455 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66455"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Kluger</div> The Night Stalker (Pinnacle True Crime) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015740 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015740"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786018100.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Carlo</div> The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19337 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19337"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684827123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083196792_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Quammen</div> The Life of Emily Dickinson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412825 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412825"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674530802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard B. Sewall</div> All Souls' Rising http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87527 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87527"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076536.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madison Smartt Bell</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Open Heart (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244190 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244190"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156004844.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. B. Yehoshua</div> THE UNRULY QUEEN: LIFE OF QUEEN CAROLINE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5354382 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5354382"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21A0F40N63L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by FLORA FRASER</div> Great Women iN Sports http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5464857 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Janette Johnson</div> Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19087 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19087"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen</div> Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1584970 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1584970"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0806522615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evangeline Bruce</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">39</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> Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795694 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795694"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592120539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Lincoln: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9174 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9174"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375708766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gore Vidal</div> East of Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Native Son (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3189911 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. Wright</div> The Prince of Tides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974445 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974445"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553381547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Conroy</div> The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207830 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207830"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43031961_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298140 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298140"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2577080 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2577080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4722852 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4722852"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gOgBFMQAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Richardson</div> Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81541 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81541"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div>