Lists of Bests: Newsweek's Fifty Books for Our Times http://www.listsofbests.com/list/66047 http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300/page/1 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:17:55 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5187254 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Trollope</div> The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812057 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11xWxD5WzSL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Wright</div> Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6462586 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6462586"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XBQtcxaIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zhao Ziyang</div> The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3935643 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3935643"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416dNqmcEqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Carr</div> The Bear http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839762 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by WIlliam Faulkner</div> Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/679649 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/679649"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679764399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65553117_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Gabler</div> Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3570439 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3570439"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/018QFBV4W3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc</div> Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015411 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015411"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312426038.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Shadid</div> Predictably Irrational http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3955046 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Ariely</div> God: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18879 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18879"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679743685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Miles</div> The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84531 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84531"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871568772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wendell Berry</div> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372748 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372748"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151365040.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Underground http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2905840 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455605 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clayton M. Christensen</div> Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28392 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28392"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0963726455.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Hickey</div> Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5557729 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5557729"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vfC3KE2EL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2869662 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2869662"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11BBWtO4yxL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lee Smolin</div> City: Rediscovering the Center http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6638062 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6638062"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xcuzo0mSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Whyte</div> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/532964 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Benjamin Franklin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4394031 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund S. Morgan</div> The Mississippi Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6686085 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Among the Thugs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65846 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745351.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Buford</div> Brooklyn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6374518 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Tóbín</div> Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5480190 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5480190"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NJdXBcQsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayelet Waldman</div> Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2210639 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2210639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802143032.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Bowden</div> Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9316 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375751459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Tanenhaus</div> Midnight's Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136584770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> American Prometheus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927389 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927389"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01w4yPykFJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kai Bird</div> The Lost http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6686184 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Mendelsohn</div> Gilead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031242440X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437656 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437656"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519Wd0xh14L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Harris</div> Kim (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4537498 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4537498"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YsGmi5ZDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3973 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3973"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156007088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Lewis</div> The Line of Beauty: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54877 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54877"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582346100.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Hollinghurst</div> The Dark Is Rising http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2716737 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2716737"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416949658.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Cooper</div> The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811238 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Underworld http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2069212 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Why Evolution Is True http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5756627 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5756627"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418c3n5W76L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerry A. Coyne</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123891143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> Regeneration Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740769 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2740769"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140257683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Senator Joe McCarthy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15077 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15077"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520204727.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard H. Rovere</div> Year of Wonders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3573 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3573"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geraldine Brooks</div> The Elegance of the Hedgehog http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006061 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006061"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418vh%2BXkkIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Barbery</div> Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5756661 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5756661"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IRlz8f84L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lee Child</div> Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960423 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> American Journeys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6558852 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Watson</div> Cotton Comes to Harlem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1027468 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chester B. Himes</div> The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99890 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99890"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375709401.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Thomson</div>