Lists of Bests: Shannon's "Epigraphs: A Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61958 A reading list composed of books that provided epigraphs for other books in my library. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:14:45 GMT en-us 0 50 43 0 0 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5024287 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5024287"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410vQl-G-sL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> American Folklore and the Historian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2938623 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Mercer Dorson</div> Bartleby The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5560875 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5560875"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51stQEDrJ1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> A Brief History of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15903 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15903"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Hawking</div> Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114506 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Browning</div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369787 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369787"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51II5qHOUAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: I.Rain & Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647655 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647655"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E6JLFK.01-AIR1YILJKP5Y._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by w. somerset maugham</div> A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2721310 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2721310"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416534733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044100X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345342968.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122534399_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10901 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10901"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393317730.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eduardo Galeano</div> Ghost Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17959 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671685635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Straub</div> God's Pocket http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105629 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140246274.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pete Dexter</div> The Great God Pan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5565979 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5565979"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5170g%2B2b-SL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787988 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by The Brothers Grimm</div> Gulliver's Travels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4626885 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> The King James Bible (with book and chapter navigation) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3800797 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3800797"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y-vqpYa5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5557729 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5557729"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vfC3KE2EL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> The Little Sister http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1824052 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1824052"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000023VWT.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Loitering with Intent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51351 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51351"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811214745.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> Look Homeward, Angel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2022548 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2022548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Wolfe</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151700 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Man and Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5543144 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.B. Priestley</div> The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1349099 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1349099"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> The Masque Of The Red Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3505668 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3880058 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3880058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zOJ-R58iL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">27</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> A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48505 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486287599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11743 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11743"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415271029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54590352_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone Weil</div> Neuromancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12791 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12791"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441012035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Peace Like a River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24150 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802139256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122574868_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leif Enger</div> The Rainbow (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5563332 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5563332"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TteJOXW7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. H. Lawrence</div> Rebecca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89732 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89732"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380730405.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V41075501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne du Maurier</div> The Republic of Plato http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14330 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465069347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14669 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14669"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486272664.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Taylor Coleridge</div> Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21549 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21549"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Satanic Verses: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864354 <div id="position">37</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> Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5566041 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5566041"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L72NKBckL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blake</div> To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119999750_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Voice Of The Fire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34004 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34004"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891830449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore</div> Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library (Paper)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1655790 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1655790"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/046087635X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> The Waste Land and Other Poems (Dodo Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4995041 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4995041"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZGI5V-N1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/568 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/568"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060293233.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Frank Baum</div>