Lists of Bests: linggeek's "NPR Holiday Books 2007" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65267 The complete list of NPR critics' recommended reading for Holidays 2007. Minus cookbooks. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16702917 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:22:07 GMT en-us 0 50 38 0 0 The Assassins Gallery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2998857 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2998857"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11iitMvvVdL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David L. Robbins</div> An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3600730 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brock Clarke</div> Away: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3885649 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3885649"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5101lyZWf0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Bloom</div> Ghost (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4127581 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Lightman</div> How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014223 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014223"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01tLQc5w-sL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Bayard</div> Mister Pip http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3725728 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3725728"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01B6IFBQZKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lloyd Jones</div> My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3302874 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3302874"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11sMm8RgdJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Dunea</div> The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5522032 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5522032"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UjtDIehDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Konigsburg</div> Novels in Three Lines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289986 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289986"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590172302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Felix Feneon</div> The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3392062 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3392062"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11NQyrDVzDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Lithgow</div> Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4902911 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4902911"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515i9m4VDxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Sundown, Yellow Moon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4085322 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4085322"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HIcJCKSvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry Watson</div> War and Peace (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5370537 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5370537"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DPLEkzuxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 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src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514CGiDEDmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Completely Mad Don Martin: His Best Cartoons from Mad Magazine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4104948 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4104948"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Rkt4VBs4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Martin</div> The Ghost http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3304958 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Harris</div> Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3652514 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bark Editors</div> It's All Too Much: Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2862589 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Walsh</div> Los Angeles Noir (Akashic Noir) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2632121 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2632121"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933354224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43287449_.jpg" /></a></div> Loving Frank: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3508787 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3508787"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11062CbfgYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Horan</div> One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5000579 <div id="position">31</div><div 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Christmas Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6425401 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6425401"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a-mzQYAFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Coltrane: The Story of a Sound http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4583502 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4583502"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vZQ6Mud1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Ratliff</div> The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4873219 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4873219"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A-oIuTAaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kittredge</div> People of the Book: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4412611 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geraldine Brooks</div> Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5412976 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5412976"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QHWPzeu%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garrison Keillor</div> Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5291172 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5291172"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BfzXto7IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Hass</div>