Lists of Bests: dt123's "Books I've Read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/62046 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:46:21 GMT en-us 0 50 61 50 0 Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2755 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2755"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140182829.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henri Alain-Fournier</div> Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21034 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21034"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743237188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann-Marie MacDonald</div> Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7387031 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7387031"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xrOi2eJ7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ammon Shea</div> The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3523 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3523"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> The Fall of the House of Usher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2062346 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> Half of a Yellow Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2610417 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</div> The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811671 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811671"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11whnZHw6eL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander McCall Smith</div> The Pit and the Pendulum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5405036 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> The Lieutenant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4888910 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4888910"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zn5n%2B6FAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Grenville</div> The Purloined Letter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774417 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allen Poe</div> Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88180 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88180"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565117115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Liam Hearn</div> The Book of Illusions: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6402"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> I Am the Messenger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/840271 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/840271"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375836675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Markus Zusak</div> The Call of the Wild http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2565328 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2565328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581 <div id="position">15</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> Love All http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5829858 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Jane Howard</div> The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774094 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Fadiman</div> Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393926362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Beach http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31233 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31233"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573226521.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521592_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Garland</div> The Nose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752727 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> The Household Guide to Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5973429 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5973429"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PDtK%2B0eFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Debra Adelaide</div> The Book of Color http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6128646 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Blackburn</div> A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52859 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52859"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43031949_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> The Flying Troutmans: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5327990 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Cement Garden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18926 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18926"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679750185.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464956_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Mcewan</div> That Eye, The Sky : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/140559 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/140559"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743234421.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123006669_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Winton</div> The Elegance of the Hedgehog http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5977204 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Barbery</div> Waiting Room: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6419935 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6419935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TB8Djpy5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabrielle Carey</div> Portobello http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5620914 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Rendell</div> The Reader http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1899059 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernhard Schlink</div> The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103389 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393960579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> The Pillars of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5771071 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5771071"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qDnOm8H9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Follett</div> The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773060 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maggie O'Farrell</div> The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6156935 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6156935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EMYx-H2oL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Ann Shaffer</div> Becoming Enlightened http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6980664 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by His Holiness the Dalai Lama</div> Suite Francaise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082203 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082203"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irene Nemirovsky</div> Flowers for Algernon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963535 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030306.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Keyes</div> She (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5558312 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5558312"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vthD47RGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. Rider Haggard</div> Disgrace: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4568851 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4568851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51El7jOtm5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> 84, Charing Cross Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140143505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132613952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helene Hanff</div> Guilt About the Past http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7251896 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernhard Schlink</div> The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7357795 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helene Hanff</div> Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/346855 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/346855"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6411444 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain de Botton</div> Hangover Square http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/516736 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/516736"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933372060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Hamilton</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325297"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Cheri and The Last of Cheri (introduction by Raymond Mortimer, December 1950) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1669083 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colette</div> The Serpentine Cave http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854852 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854852"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031216999X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Paton Walsh</div> Reunion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7379788 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrea Goldsmith</div> My Antonia (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77978 <div id="position">50</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>