Lists of Bests: stephsk8r's "Books I've Read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61505 Again, my goal is to read 45 books, 15 of them from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:48:42 GMT en-us 0 50 68 50 0 Old Bug: The Spiritual Quest of a Skeptical Guy on a Road Trip Across America with a Long Lost Friend in a Beat-Up Beetle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4241077 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4241077"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MzJbJIDzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Jackson</div> Bel Canto (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2874886 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2874886"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/012H1KD2YPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by MP Dunleavey</div> Animal Crackers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/786865 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/786865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385337442.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Tinti</div> The Unbinding http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1407492 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1407492"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307277410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Kirn</div> Life: The Odds : And How to Improve Them http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2312031 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2312031"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FTBPP0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V51308291_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Baer</div> Retire Rich from Real Estate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3384635 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3384635"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11DGd86DZQL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Andersen</div> Treasure Island http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4495641 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3789892 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3789892"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xZYJIkPbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Abbott</div> The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174341 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553495011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Brashares</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4406651 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5893270 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5893270"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fkZ2N85ML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6358777 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6358777"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519mpP3bg1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506042 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506042"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Cja-fWUML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Brashares</div> The Elegance of the Hedgehog http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5977204 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Barbery</div> Getting Over Jack Wagner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21503 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21503"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743464672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056474818_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elise Juska</div> Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323343 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323343"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51t-frMCYNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sudhir Venkatesh</div> e http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14116 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14116"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Beaumont</div> Where's My F*cking Latte? (and Other Stories About Being an Assistant in Hollywood) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2907790 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2907790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ysxP46EKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark, Yoshimoto Nemcoff</div> Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1293773 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1293773"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591841232.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael J. Silverstein</div> Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6448081 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6448081"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FlRKM8k8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Quinn Cummings</div> The House on Fortune Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6910190 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margot Livesey</div> Neverwhere: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962179 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962179"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060557818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Gaiman</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2615939 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Gotcha Capitalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4626669 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4968788 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4968788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518Q3w-K5lL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> Punching In http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3611940 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3611940"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01dymouadhL.jpg" /></a></div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">28</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> Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3920817 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Moskos</div> The Return of the Native http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534632 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> My Boring Ass Life: The Uncensored Diary of Kevin Smith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613548 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Smith</div> Cherry : A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17606 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17606"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0670892742.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Karr</div> Don Quixote http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2556912 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4322799 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4322799"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411VOh7o9wL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doreen Orion</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4063068 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yann Martel</div> Sway: The Irresistible Pullof Irrational Behavior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4999487 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ori Brafman</div> The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6203023 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6203023"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kl%2BYNHhPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Mlodinow</div> Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3378 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3378"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014062063X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5464929 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5464929"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JMTlxylML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard H. Thaler</div> Lord Jim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5317549 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5074833 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Vanderbilt</div> It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5137762 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heather Armstrong</div> A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4836820 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kristin Chenoweth</div> Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3842831 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Gourmet Rhapsody http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6544558 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6544558"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415n0BFBE7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Barbery</div> A Do-It-Ourselves Guide for Sustainable City Living http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3811612 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3811612"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ATyS1iqzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stacy Pettigrew</div> The Golden Notebook http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5551457 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5551457"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VIBaawJbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris May Lessing</div> Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4473899 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4473899"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518wqAvm%2BaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Frank</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434529 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div>