Lists of Bests: olduvai11's "Books I've Read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/62224 Books I read in 2009 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:05:18 GMT en-us 0 50 243 50 0 Truth & Beauty: A Friendship http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57183 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57183"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060572159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145497 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Curious Case of Benjamin Button http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3813864 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3813864"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mVFUAU%2BfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Stardust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5326809 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Gaiman</div> Rabbit Proof Fence : A True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2391998 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Pilkington / Nugi Garimara</div> What Is the What (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769605 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5385788 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5385788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41POj2jAOWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2832834 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miranda July</div> Ms. Hempel Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3821502 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum</div> Moon Tiger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65396 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65396"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802135331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Lively</div> Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156421178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5237374 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vincent Lam</div> The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3835686 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3835686"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419Q3XRNJ9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> This Boy's Life: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24115 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136680.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolff</div> The Impostor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5601086 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5601086"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f42rvDKsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Damon Galgut</div> The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5550100 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Summerscale</div> Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winfried Georg Sebald</div> Beijing Coma: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2980447 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ma Jian</div> The Secret Scripture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369469 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Barry</div> Esther's Inheritance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3742706 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandor Marai</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3957768 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> City of Thieves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369464 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Autobiography of Malcom X http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641183 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Given Day: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3667575 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dennis Lehane</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464898_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Memories of My Melancholy Whores http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352363 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400095948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386211 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386211"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857151720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44185334_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4551049 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4551049"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DQcKc7%2BoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Waiter</div> The Lazarus Project http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5386773 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandar Hemon</div> Blaming (Virago Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1592919 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1592919"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/184408308X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Taylor</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> In Persuasion Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2539914 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2539914"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/159448242X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Saunders</div> Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2411798 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2411798"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812978064.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Calvin Trillin</div> Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2331790 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2331790"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060826592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44866276_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hessler</div> The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060528877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> Maps and Legends http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2965177 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2965177"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11HWP53UsrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Best American Nonrequired Reading) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5427164 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5427164"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31zgNS-OXBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The last of Mr. Norris, by Christopher Isherwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/391874 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Isherwood</div> The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25091 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494804_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Isherwood</div> Slash http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3587065 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Slash</div> That Mad Ache http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5522106 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> The Tricking of Freya http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5875613 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5875613"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FKjxCQw-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Sunley</div> Towards Another Summer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5137346 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5137346"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dL5qzDuoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Frame</div> Veil of Gold, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3107384 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Wilkins</div> Kill Your Friends: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4137180 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Niven</div> The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2940565 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2940565"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01bU-NHsKgL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Schaffert</div> The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/756971 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/756971"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812969960.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5964061 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5964061"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5124ZCAH9VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alison Bechdel</div> The Yearling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406016 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406016"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743225252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</div>