Lists of Bests: ambergamgee's "Books Read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/62285 Books that I've completed in 2009. My goal is 40. So far my favorites are: -The Man Who Walked Through Time -Life of Pi - except that when I realized halfway through that it was NOT based on a true story...that broke my heart. Even though it says "a novel" on the cover, I'm an idiot and spent half the book thinking it was non-fiction. And the end was disappointing. -American Psycho - even though I marked it as "not worth consuming" I have never read a book or watched a movie that affected me more. I went to film school because of my love of horror and....I can't begin to describe the nightmares that book gave me. I didn't read anything for awhile. Seeing the movie in NO WAY prepares you for those vivid descriptions -Into the Wild Read before: -The Lord of the Rings (4th reading, I remember why I was so obsessed before) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:16:42 GMT en-us 0 50 38 0 0 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618526412.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Absorbent Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5001587 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5001587"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BP52h07qL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Montessori</div> The Five people you meet in heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84947 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3750362 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich</div> Night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1741172 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/282366 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/282366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723064.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553654_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Fletcher</div> Darkly Dreaming Dexter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/403630 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/403630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307277887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeff Lindsay</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48561 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495753.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Life of Pi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/594140 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yann Martel</div> The Diving Bell and the Butterfly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1031979 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1031979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FEDROC.01-A2AD6ASLUS0EZG._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Dominique Bauby</div> American Psycho http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364964 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bret Easton Ellis</div> Virgin: The Untouched History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3553704 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3553704"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ydAR%2BOdVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hanne Blank</div> Fast-Talking Dames http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4707638 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4707638"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AAJR7XNPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria DiBattista</div> Player Piano written by K. Vonnegut http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2445621 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> I Feel Bad About My Neck http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3852170 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nora Ephron</div> The Myth of Monogamy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6316042 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Things Fall Apart: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385474547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Into The Wild http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3091181 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> Haunted http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2331501 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Pahlaniuk</div> She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17673 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17673"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671021001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056463208_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wally Lamb</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3613712 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Daisy Miller http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4411688 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2436459 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> Welcome to the Monkey House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2662744 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3461514 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3461514"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Sru0hnyiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andy Letcher</div> The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784832 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784832"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11vSHzV+FAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. R. R. Tolkien</div> Flight Volume Four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390015 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390015"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345490401.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46017988_.jpg" /></a></div> The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76807 <div id="position">28</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> This Side of Paradise (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6600317 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51275 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618574972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5339057 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5339057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MGZ5JQltL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nic Sheff</div> Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5404288 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5404288"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21GTPYBs31L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Krakauer Jon</div> The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904610 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904610"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226568229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. 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Narayan</div> Little Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7384936 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7173150 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7173150"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512aQDwPnUL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sima Qian</div> Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7350162 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7350162"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PwC2TsE7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tacitus</div> The Time Traveler's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4064 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4064"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/015602943X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124914047_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Sunjata: Three Mandinka Versions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7391084 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7391084"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GBP8JH87L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gordon Innes</div>