Lists of Bests: skemena's "50 Books in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61117 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:20 GMT en-us 0 50 70 50 0 The Perks of Being a Wallflower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1901814 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Chbosky</div> The Freedom Writers' Diary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5588247 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5615938 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811238 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> The Giver http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249824 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> Lost in Mongolia by Colin Angus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5853559 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3526 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5792905 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43041006_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Old Man and the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5838895 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5838895"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31RC7AA806L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Time Traveller's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38142 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388050 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388050"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036874.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zlata Filipovic</div> Hall of Best Knowledge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4301012 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4301012"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/617RljsxTJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Fenwick</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675069 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2577080 <div id="position">16</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> Atonement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534318 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> The Fall of the House of Usher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61897 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61897"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594561796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> The Pit and the Pendulum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5847557 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5847557"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lHLdY8cFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2561722 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Alvarez</div> A Home at the End of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3160770 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922919 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Diaz</div> Beautiful Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3978231 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bock</div> Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792684 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792684"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Q-LgRGocL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Briar Rose (Fairy Tale Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1231716 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Yolen</div> Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> Anna Karenina http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51659 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51659"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419305948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Into the Wild (MTI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768417 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1741172 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BJV3E2.01-A19L3IEUO4I4SR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop, and the poetry of a new generation) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7357814 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Intimacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1268838 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hanif Kureshi</div> Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1095 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1095"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060730552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Simpson</div> i read it but i don't get it by cris tovani http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7380363 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Swindle by Gordon Korman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7382299 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Satanic Verses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2568976 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureshi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7384272 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The 9 Rights of Every Writer by Vicki Spandel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7388494 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7390273 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943385 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> Kick Me by Paul Feig http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7391412 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/98704 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221459 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Last King of Scotland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5476658 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453668 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5453668"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RxD7zvDNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> The Overcoat and the Nose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3900206 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> The Last Unicorn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2824411 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter S. Beagle</div> A Lesson Before Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2829288 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest J. Gaines</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1462486 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div>