Lists of Bests: susiegrapefruit's "Books I Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61409 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:31:21 GMT en-us 0 50 39 0 0 You Shall Know Our Velocity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28915 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28915"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Golden Compass Deluxe Edition (His Dark Materials) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578530 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375838309.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The Muted Mermaid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513029 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513029"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fE5--FXCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Del Staecker</div> The Subtle Knife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554429 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> The Best Pet of All http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4302115 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4302115"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NYWRNCA2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David LaRochelle</div> Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2583616 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2583616"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486456765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15914 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15914"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12526 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440238153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151700 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/145666 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/145666"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008EH6NC.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pearl S. Buck</div> Genesis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1347963 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> A Home at the End of the World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314540 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314540"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Executioner's Song http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9008 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9008"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700811.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> villa incognito by Tom Robbins http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4866717 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Me Talk Pretty One Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7099 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7099"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316776963.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56788728_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> The God of Small Things: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5193168 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5193168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tRBcmWgOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> Twilight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804210 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316015849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> Despair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780289 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5071629 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> New Moon (The Twilight Saga) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3011291 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3011291"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01j8XvQfswL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> Eclipse (Book 3 of Twilight Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3478483 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43232 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43232"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141008253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Breaking Dawn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3338823 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephenie Meyer</div> A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060012781.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Bourdain</div> Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2955064 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Roach</div> White Oleander http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2301629 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Fitch</div> The Picture of Dorian Gray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2271069 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68935 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68935"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593081480.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas</div> The Tales of Beedle the Bard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5467174 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> People of the Book: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4412611 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geraldine Brooks</div> Turn of the Screw http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4566653 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Curious Case of Benjamin Button http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3813864 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3813864"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mVFUAU%2BfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5341500 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5341500"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51INCt-LQpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Hardcover ISBN 0439852706 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2329785 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2329785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439852706.01-A361RKL1CWE6P2._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cornelia Funke</div>