Lists of Bests: avidreader60's "Books Read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61389 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:48:26 GMT en-us 0 50 61 50 0 the story of edgar sawtelle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4434168 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Wroblewski</div> A Mercy by Toni Morrison http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5516103 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> THE SEA, by John Banville (Knopf, 2005) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5561555 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> Just After Sunset http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5401470 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5659460 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The yellow wallpaper. Afterword by Elaine R. Hedges http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5506019 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) Gilman</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Indignation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3753685 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Watchmen - Dave Gibbons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315630 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The End of the Affair: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3724 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3724"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437980.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083834916_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> She (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5558312 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5558312"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vthD47RGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. Rider Haggard</div> 2666 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5491296 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer</div> Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822858 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Wood</div> Animal's People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2917948 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Indra Sinha</div> Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6297289 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Monsters of Templeton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6263748 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6263748"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31e9XsSGIIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lauren Groff</div> The King's English by Betsy Burton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6330475 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Fool http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6299841 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6299841"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/311C4B4DquL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Moore Christopher</div> Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Robinson Crusoe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539379 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Solaris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4034 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4034"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027607.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanislaw Lem</div> Great Apes (Self, Will) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24102 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24102"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802135765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Self</div> WAY STATION by Clifford D. Simak http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402636 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by </div> The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6448127 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Sabbath's Theater http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19083 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> RABBIT, RUN, by John Updike (1960; Ballantine Books, 1996) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4934009 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Speed-The-Plow by David Mamet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6474722 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> G.: A NOVEL, by John Berger (Vintage, 1992) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5145909 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Book of the Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3936058 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3936058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CJPo%2Bd4HL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Preston</div> Daemon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5809126 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5809126"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cPj2IZv7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Suarez</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679775439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Mister Pip http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3922576 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3922576"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lLD%2Br-Q4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lloyd Jones</div> The Heather Blazing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358755 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358755"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140175326.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118431028_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Toibin</div> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/332735"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618711651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040528 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2040528"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853262390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056529064_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> A Room With A View http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5085206 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5085206"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414bhJIYP6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Bean Trees: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5272039 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Prince Ombra http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347469 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347469"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0765342448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056485084_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roderick MacLeish</div> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6425225 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6425225"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Psn7395BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Solzhenitsyn</div> Prodigal Summer: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1477 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1477"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060959037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Pigs in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82996 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82996"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060922532.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> PURGATORIO by Ariel Dorfmann http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7385218 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Rabbit Redux http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51362 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51362"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911934.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5956792 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5956792"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j33Us0hRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffery Deaver</div> Homeland and other stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/669198 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/669198"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568497245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Moon Palace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2488673 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2488673"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2253137286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Fear and Trembling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6125 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6125"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312288573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amelie Nothomb</div> Where Angels Fear to Tread http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4178527 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4178527"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gQInciMqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div>