Lists of Bests: New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60721 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:46:38 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Beyond Black: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499210 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312426054.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hilary Mantel</div> A Changed Man: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832066 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832066"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060560037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine Prose</div> Collected Poems 1943-2004 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1083736 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1083736"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030799.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wilbur</div> Empire Rising: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320545 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320545"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425740.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133989147_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Kelly</div> Envy: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/736706 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/736706"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812973763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathryn Harrison</div> Europe Central http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100677 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100677"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132268351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Vollmann</div> Follies: New Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964759 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964759"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743269624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Beattie</div> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150141 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150141"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439785960.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> Home Land: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6441 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6441"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1103844154_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Lipsyte</div> The Hot Kid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962465 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962465"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060724234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elmore Leonard</div> How We Are Hungry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59652 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59652"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400095565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977947 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977947"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060937890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40878272_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Mattison</div> Indecision: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/627269 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/627269"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812973755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1140883841_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Kunkel</div> Kafka on the Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400079276.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Lunar Park http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91609 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91609"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bret Easton Ellis</div> Maps for Lost Lovers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691246 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/691246"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076978.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nadeem Aslam</div> The March : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357571 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357571"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0739321358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> Memories of My Melancholy Whores http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352363 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400095948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Migration: New & Selected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2881421 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2881421"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01oX%2Bk3L-aL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. S. Merwin</div> Missing Mom: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962551 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962551"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060816228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> Mission to America: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62806 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62806"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038550764X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Kirn</div> Mother's Milk: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1209180 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1209180"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1890447420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44208464_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward St. Aubyn</div> Natural History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437692 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437692"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413S%2BzMuDdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Chiasson</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">24</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> No Country for Old Men (MTI) (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2854301 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Overlord: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/591651 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/591651"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060758112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138924746_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorie Graham</div> The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993002 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993002"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060515112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Erdrich</div> Please Don't Come Back from the Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/235761 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/235761"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156031671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dean Bakopoulos</div> Prep: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67700 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67700"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297235X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Curtis Sittenfeld</div> Saturday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div> The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400097029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> Seven Types of Ambiguity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75644 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75644"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594481431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elliot Perlman</div> Shalimar the Clown: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970067 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970067"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Slow Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081296 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081296"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099490625.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.M. Coetzee</div> Star Dust: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002053 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002053"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374530335.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65774993_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Bidart</div> The Successor: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3342006 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3342006"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ot1p5Pw8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ismail Kadare</div> Towelhead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520757 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alicia Erian</div> Veronica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122117 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122117"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/037572785X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gaitskill</div> The Accidental Masterpiece : On the Art of Life and Vice Versa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1502405 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1502405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FZDKNY.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Kimmelman</div> Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437695 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Goldfarb</div> American Prometheus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927389 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01w4yPykFJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kai Bird</div> Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3208193 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3208193"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11NWZNRJQWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maureen Dowd</div> Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/448649 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/448649"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375714227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120842792_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Hastings</div> The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589617 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589617"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Packer</div> The Beatles: The Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146471 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316013315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Spitz</div> Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288648 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288648"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080570.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Greenhouse</div> Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428276 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428276"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Margolick</div> Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2705740 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2705740"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/078671686X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth D. Ackerman</div> Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/190254 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/190254"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Camille Paglia</div>