Lists of Bests: athenalindia's "Books I've Read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61657 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:14:46 GMT en-us 0 50 141 50 0 !Click song. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5524276 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John A Williams</div> The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3216338 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3216338"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11mY6VCnW3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Valin</div> Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964358 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964358"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590302672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shunryu Suzuki</div> LITERARY MURDER. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3794104 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3794104"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31E%2BB3%2BtvsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Batya. Gur</div> Cosi Fan Tutti http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5543236 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5543236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sNKBtvWzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015587 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037572754X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Bissell</div> Stone that the Builder Refused http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141373 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141373"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madison Smartt Bell</div> My Sister's Keeper: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21455 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21455"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743454537.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jodi Picoult</div> Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11005 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11005"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393326098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Quammen</div> The Game of Kings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19112 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679777431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Dunnett</div> Magic or Not? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3092627 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3092627"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/014366KGP5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Eager</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Family Fortunes, Revised Edition: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2258931 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Davidoff</div> The Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5184987 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5184987"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01QzTqAJ8QL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by McCarthy Cormac</div> Secrets of the Tsil Café http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2710017 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2710017"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425185338.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Fox Averill</div> Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Canadian Social History Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4049232 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4049232"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z8B1J36HL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> A Fine and Private Place: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4505760 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4505760"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21OZtLabjDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter S. Beagle</div> Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832216 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/832216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195085612.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423695_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanne Boydston</div> The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1780737 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1780737"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446691860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Stewart</div> The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974963 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974963"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679777571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465039_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mcguane</div> The Perks of Being a Wallflower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17704 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17704"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671027344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Chbosky</div> My Antonia (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77978 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77978"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487699.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202578 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202578"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060570059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Brende</div> Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (Studies in Gender and History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4126981 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4126981"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YQ9JY4DRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adele Perry</div> Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3930831 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3930831"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417GsXytTzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Moore</div> Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/209225 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/209225"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743256115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122558366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Boston Women's Health Book Collective</div> City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3563 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001007.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Dalrymple</div> The Wishbones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5857375 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5857375"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B55Q1QWWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Perrotta</div> A Civil Action (Vintage Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19086 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19086"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679772677.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39952991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Harr</div> A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2411702 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Warren</div> 7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5357014 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Patterson</div> EDITH WHARTON: A BIOGRAPHY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3350293 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith. Lewis, R. W. B. Wharton</div> The Living: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2703618 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2703618"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060168706.01-A1DI3XXAD7CH18._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45082446_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> The Memory Keeper's Daughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1340771 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1340771"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037145.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Edwards</div> Chilly Scenes of Winter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18745 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18745"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Beattie</div> Say When: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21265 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21265"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743411374.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076463860_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Berg</div> Special Topics in Calamity Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143112120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46672918_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisha Pessl</div> Social Feminism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4126976 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Black</div> Truman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18154 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18154"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671869205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David McCullough</div> The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76807 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76807"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618574956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> The Pearl Diver: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199923 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199923"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060597909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sujata Massey</div> The Little White Horse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4026044 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4026044"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YJ8uKkN2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Goudge</div> The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6056077 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6056077"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ceiJ5MrBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas King</div> Saturday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/324508"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div> The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17257 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17257"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618346279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077741171_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> At Weddings and Wakes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85961 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85961"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385319851.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119857057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Mcdermott</div> Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2690104 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjorie Agosin</div> The Last Lecture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3653174 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3653174"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/019%2BaAVvtNL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randy Pausch</div>