Lists of Bests: thesprawl's "books of 09" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61500 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:32:59 GMT en-us 0 50 44 0 0 Ulysses (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679722769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Infidel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3498578 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3498578"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11WNoPR2WZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayaan Hirsi Ali</div> The White Tiger: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5127182 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5127182"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51s3oGYJP2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aravind Adiga</div> From protest to power: Personal reflections on a life in politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5521313 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5521313"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GE5Y9CVZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Rae</div> Nothing to Be Frightened Of http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3835263 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Barnes</div> Letter to a Christian Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2330314 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Harris</div> The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922167 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922167"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GLuttfJKL.jpg" /></a></div> A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9222 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9222"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/037571894X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5455820 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5455820"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j1mBL6LzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Millhauser</div> Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3441 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3441"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Ladies' Delight (Oneworld Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5549877 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5549877"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G-PusNYBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emile Zola</div> The Shack http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2952893 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2952893"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01K-7MeO09L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William P. Young</div> The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21227 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21227"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743269519.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen R. Covey</div> Black Hole http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2956217 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Burns</div> Tuesdays with Morrie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53863 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0751529818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> Good-Bye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5770990 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5770990"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b5uTT0o-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yoshihiro/ Tomine, Adrian (EDT) Tatsumi</div> Atonement (MTI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3174640 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3174640"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/019p3q0TlXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div> 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35257 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35257"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/843396867X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roberto Bolanos</div> Wind, Sand and Stars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4032 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antoine de Saint-Exupery</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962366 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060792175.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974622 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974622"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691123934.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45417108_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ignatieff</div> Love, etc. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2188882 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2188882"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375411615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Barnes</div> Beautiful Losers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18913 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18913"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679748253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Cohen</div> Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269129 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269129"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140445226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivan Turgenev</div> A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5257851 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5257851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QzOwF9UwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Miles from Nowhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5549203 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5549203"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FwyJaGlPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nami Mun</div> 100 Selected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24048 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24048"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by e. e. cummings</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Collected Poems (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2540725 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2540725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679643508.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W.H. Auden</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">32</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> The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18765 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18765"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733841.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5557446 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5557446"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VCE7o6ZaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345391802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906176 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906176"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840770.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085599085_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dryden</div> The Works of Anne Bradstreet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5426775 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5426775"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21DJhewUx0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Bradstreet</div> Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2663534 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Maguire</div> Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26794 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26794"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0872860175.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64199563_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Ginsberg</div> Watchmen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28020 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28020"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0930289234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130519120_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore</div> The Satanic Verses: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864354 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864354"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5148EfoguRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123891143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Blind Assassin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121695146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Underworld: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19456 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684848155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div>