Lists of Bests: Christopher's "Books I read in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/62535 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:10:27 GMT en-us 0 50 25 0 0 The Line Of Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4373569 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Hollinghurst</div> After Dark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4636623 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/230976 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/230976"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Mamet</div> The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4968788 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4968788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518Q3w-K5lL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. K. Rowling</div> The John A. Livingston Reader: The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation and One Cosmic Instant: A Natural History of Human Arrogance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1566465 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1566465"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0771053266.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Livingston</div> Watchmen (DC COMICS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2152648 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore, John Higgins & Dave Gibbins</div> Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Politics, History, and Culture) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6153607 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6153607"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5119PGMB3HL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Elyachar</div> The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1564633 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1564633"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0816624372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Ferguson</div> The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19505 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684853949.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> Anyone here been raped and speaks English?: A foreign correspondent's life behind the lines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2330264 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Behr</div> Never Learn Anything From History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6404530 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Beaton</div> The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320241 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060832819.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6470155 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6470155"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41sDNIu9T1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alissa Hamilton</div> Assassination Vacation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074326004X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> Changes: A Love Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327338 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327338"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558610650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ama Ata Aidoo</div> The Marriage of Anansewa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7384709 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177305 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177305"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400082439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118093218_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Jr Reston</div> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3509876 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Díaz</div> When You Are Engulfed in Flames http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5435161 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5435161"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51icEJzZcNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> Pride of Baghdad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001198 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001198"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11cVTcM2quL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian K. Vaughan</div> Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47294 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47294"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580051197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Inga Muscio</div> The Da Vinci Cod and Other Illustrations for Unwritten Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1205386 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1205386"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0763630535.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60620879_.jpg" /></a></div> Voice in the Forest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7389001 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Efua Sutherland</div> Outliers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3817804 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> As It Happened http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7389004 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Frum</div>