Lists of Bests: jandrewgraber's "Books I've Finished in 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/64259 A slowly (hopefully) increasing list of the books I've managed to read in the last of the 0-something years. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:13:15 GMT en-us 0 50 40 0 0 Of Love and Other Demons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2079673 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel García Márquez</div> More Information Than You Require http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760258 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Hodgman</div> Failure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5291174 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470526 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Klosterman</div> The Breast http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453992 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453992"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679749012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619918 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Sachs</div> Watchmen (DC COMICS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2152648 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore, John Higgins & Dave Gibbins</div> Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2967557 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2967557"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01i1KMbrKnL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eve Ensler</div> siddhartha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071276 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by herman hesse</div> The History of Love: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314464 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314464"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicole Krauss</div> Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen (Tang Center Lecture) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6183781 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6183781"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411fTf%2BA3lL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerome Silbergeld</div> The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58740 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58740"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802141676.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherman Alexie</div> Infinite Jest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316066524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> The Phantom Tollbooth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11260 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11260"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394815009.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440127_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norton Juster</div> The Bookseller of Kabul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6916 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6916"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316159417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Asne Seierstad</div> Bitter Winds : A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1107866 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1107866"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471114251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harry Wu</div> Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6553816 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6553816"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41P%2BWoP7HKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1103664 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1103664"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402204019.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jackson Katz</div> Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/280169 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/280169"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684824485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114068615_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Condensed Version http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6584135 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6584135"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61D5QbemSOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786858 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786858"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11mv1NHFkIL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dee Brown</div> The Cherry Orchard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5121803 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5121803"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WiL5Ag3DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> Forgiveness Parade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73629 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73629"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0916397556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey McDaniel</div> The Human Stain: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125097141_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Reservation Blues http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987066 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/987066"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802141900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherman Alexie</div> Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Revised and Updated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3005804 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W. Loewen</div> Falling Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3759652 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3759652"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01EnUq9o%2BxL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> American Psycho http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18797 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bret Easton Ellis</div> The Ark Sakura (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5640298 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5640298"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ypQLz3M2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kobo Abe</div> Trout Fishing in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3753242 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3753242"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Sbe3o-DUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3996359 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> In Watermelon Sugar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52071 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52071"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099437597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> The Prophet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4894818 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4894818"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pZehRc2SL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kahill Gibran</div> Splinter Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80874 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80874"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0916397793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey McDaniel</div> Buddha of Suburbia (FF Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475283 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475283"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571200435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hanif Kureishi</div> Grendel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18657 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18657"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723110.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553698_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gardner</div> 77 Dream Songs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1472235 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berryman</div> Jonathan Livingston Seagull http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993963 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/993963"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743278909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bach</div> Motherless Brooklyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9246 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375753737.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div>