Lists of Bests: vhyland's "Books for V to Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65540 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:38:46 GMT en-us 0 50 35 0 0 Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386211 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386211"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857151720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44185334_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Old School http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9033 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9033"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118223787_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolff</div> The Old Man and Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5209302 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elaine Dundy</div> Against Love: A Polemic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1282351 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1282351"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375719326.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Kipnis</div> The Female Thing: Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3004365 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3004365"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01AghNODa%2BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Kipnis</div> A Seahorse Year http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202691 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202691"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618618872.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stacey D'Erasmo</div> The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4413300 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4413300"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511LYLbLvGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990682 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060882034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine Prose</div> The Informers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551088 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551088"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wsUQKTisL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2401688 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7159 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7159"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316925284.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> Proust Was a Neuroscientist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4281663 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4281663"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ig607AQVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonah Lehrer</div> "Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3647346 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Thomson</div> Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7119 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316787531.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Azerrad</div> Motherless Brooklyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9246 <div id="position">16</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> Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156028972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> Orientalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11199 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039474067X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121695155_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Said</div> The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675530 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675530"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307263967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46017741_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Scott</div> We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1767431 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1767431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006112429X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lionel Shriver</div> Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551093 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551093"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61twkbs3r3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greil Marcus</div> Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18620 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464874_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lester Bangs</div> Spoiled: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4127044 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caitlin Macy</div> The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City (New Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3899076 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3899076"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514BShpl4sL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Currid</div> Specimen Days: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5973609 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> The Believers: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4337551 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zoe Heller</div> Possession (Vintage Classic Promo) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2650982 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> The Golden Notebook: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3194447 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3444 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3444"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Loos</div> The Wordy Shipmates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624980 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> The Talented Mister Ripley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2619059 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Highsmith</div> The Private Lives of the Impressionists http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5182776 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5182776"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21D3NGF134L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Roe</div> Rabbit, Run http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13526 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Easter Parade: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6048 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6048"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312278284.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430782_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Yates</div> When We Were Orphans: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9233 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9233"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div>