Lists of Bests: Suggested Reading List from "A Well-Educated Mind" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/64835 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:37:32 GMT en-us 0 50 157 50 0 Don Quixote http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2556912 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46720"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192803611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Gulliver's Travels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4626885 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Oliver Twist (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50515 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50515"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424537.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Jane Eyre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308221 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3992550 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3992550"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CEMyax7cL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107647 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107647"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486440281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Madame Bovary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672772 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Crime and Punishment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315005 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315005"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464907_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Return of the Native http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4534632 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Huckleberry Finn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5316729 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Red Badge of Courage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4581842 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Crane -The Easton Press</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1512602 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The House Of Mirth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542412 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50448 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E3CRHW.01-A1KD1XFHXZAGYA._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962469 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420266.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451516753.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43083024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424007 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006112009X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340072 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340072"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420258.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46039358_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151731 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> White Noise by Don DeLillo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082712 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Possession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1561445 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. S. Byatt</div> Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4262 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4262"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833723.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134158342_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saint Augustine</div> The Book of Margery Kempe (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/820238 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/820238"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393976394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margery Kempe</div> Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4543533 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel de Montaigne</div> The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6370588 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020429 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4020429"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21BXsyIEUcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> Grace Abounding to Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6370589 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Who Was Taken Prisoner By the Indians with Several Others, and Treated in the Most Barbarous and Cruel Manner By Those Vile Savages. With Many Other Remarkable Events During... http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2899491 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2899491"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/011UgqfToZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson</div> The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Forgotten Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5804920 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5804920"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41i-k8vIEkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1591559 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1591559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Franklin</div> Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002783 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002783"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593082088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2950710 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet A. Jacobs</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4411694 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Three Negro Classics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/516696 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/516696"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380015811.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W. Johnson</div> On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18678 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18678"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679724621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464884_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Nietzsche</div> Mein Kampf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768509 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6370942 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18679 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972463X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192800_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, by Thomas Merton (1949; Harcourt, 1999) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4906548 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668855 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>