Lists of Bests: The Loose Canon http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65854 "They will stretch your thinking, stir your soul, and maybe even offer some startling insights on what to cook for dinner tonight. We created this list out of thousands of recommendations from authors, activists, professors, book club members, spiritual teachers, and bemused observers of the human condition. It's offered not as a checklist to measure your intellectual standing, but as an inspiration, to give you an incentive to pursue your own blissful course of study. "The real value of self-learning is that it connects you with a whole web of knowledge, each new discovery moving you in the direction of further insights. That's why every one of the main selections here points to another work we've listed, which of course will lead you to more and more. Please let us know where this list takes you, and what else you would include." Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:46:23 GMT en-us 0 50 159 50 0 Isaiah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2192675 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Zohar (5 Volume set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641126 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641126"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0900689390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021040 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021040"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061142662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Mitchell</div> The Book of Chuang Tzu (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2919765 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2919765"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GdyWw6dQL.jpg" /></a></div> The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19341 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684827905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Works and Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2371695 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hesiod</div> Mahabharata http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904609 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904609"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114035973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Buck</div> I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52715 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52715"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0893860220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056505773_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nisargadatta Maharaj</div> Meditations (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195978 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Aurelius</div> The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60709 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Apuleius</div> Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1527993 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1527993"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809131307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mother Columba Hart</div> The Gnostic Gospels: A Startling Account of the Meaning of Jesus and the Origin of Christianity Based on Gnostic Gospels and Other Secret Texts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/407773 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/407773"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394502787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elaine Pagels</div> Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz: Selected Odes (Element Classics of World Spirituality) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504762 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504762"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1852309199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jalal Al-Din Rumi</div> Muslim Women Mystics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1775163 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1775163"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1851682503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Smith</div> Gargantua and Pantagruel 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href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2128946"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000024ZDF.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tonu Karljuste</div> Samuel Johnson: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6537211 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel. Johnson</div> The Journey's Echo: Selections from Freya Stark (Ecco Travels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325451 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Freya Stark</div> Mozart: Don Giovanni http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2948206 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2948206"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11v%2BRNuJg1L.jpg" /></a></div> Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2125779 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2125779"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000001G9D.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Grundheber</div> The Book of Urizen : A Facsimile in Full Color http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844266 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844266"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486298019.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blake</div> Illuminated Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/671179 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/671179"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560259345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Ginsberg</div> Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336580 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336580"><img 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style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6364118"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e4p0pARIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustav Mahler</div> Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641341 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> New and Selected Poems: Volume One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962871 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962871"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807068780.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Oliver</div> Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass 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style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2940890"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11DSQFSPJVL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Herzen</div> The Penguin Gandhi Reader http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367670 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367670"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140236864.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mohandas K. 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M. Forster</div> Duino Elegies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1257489 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1257489"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rainer Maria Rilke</div> Selected Poems of Tu Fu http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1220289 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fu Du</div> Selections from the Prison Notebooks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89451 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/071780397X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonio Gramsci</div> Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249485 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Duck Soup [Chico Marx and Zeppo Marx] http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493141 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493141"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EWJP64.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo McCarey</div> Dr. Strangelove [Blu-ray] http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4907328 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Kubrick</div> The Complete Recordings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46000 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002757.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Johnson</div> Message http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/950794 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/950794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00006F2XV.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1116493958_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Grandmaster Flash</div>