Lists of Bests: oaklandcubsfan's "Reading list for the (now defunct) Monday East Bay Book Club" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/686 This is the reading list from a very long-lived but now defunct book group that was based in Oakland and Berkeley, CA. I joined it upon moving here in 1996. It had been in existence since January 1994, and finally dissolved in mid-2003. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:05 GMT en-us 0 50 110 50 0 Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winfried Georg Sebald</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351933 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351933"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140281606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> In America: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66395 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312273207.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Sontag</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533764_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1787 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1787"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0062502182.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1468 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060958332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Bel Canto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1361 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1361"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414522_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060586540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Intuitionist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77190 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77190"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385492995.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colson Whitehead</div> The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41288 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41288"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374522839.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carlos Fuentes</div> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003342X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> To Asmara http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583834 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446391719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056443949_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3001"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140280553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> Stones from the River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19434 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19434"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068484477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114052423_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula Hegi</div> Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47726 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47726"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385264666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124920527_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naguib Mahfouz</div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312282990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> White Teeth: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375703861.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11027 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11027"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393959031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446310786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10899 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10899"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393317552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared M. Diamond</div> Don Quijote de la Mancha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45482 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45482"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/8420467286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14128 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14128"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452282829.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132617590_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19034 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19034"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763902.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Weiner</div> The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24698 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24698"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805211063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493060_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Secrets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583911 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140280456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420589_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nuruddin Farah</div> The Moor's Last Sigh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18885 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18885"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679744665.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464943_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Autobiography of My Mother http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288365 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288365"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452274664.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jamaica Kincaid</div> Justine (Alexandria Quartet) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68558 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68558"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140153195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676348_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Durrell</div> Swimming Pool Library http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18644 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18644"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Hollinghurst</div> The Regeneration Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17550 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17550"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670869295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140196013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Shlain</div> All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18883 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679744398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081537713_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> James Joyce: The Dead And Other Stories (Great Authors) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/113999 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> The Hours http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6188 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6188"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312305060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Cunningham</div> Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583955 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583955"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Naked Lunch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93043 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0586085602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William S. Burroughs</div> If on a winter's night a traveler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4121 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4121"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156439611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422689_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Maldoror http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25093 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25093"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200825.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Comte de Lautreamont</div> Falconer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18828 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18828"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679737863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464920_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10837 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10837"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393311147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Unsworth</div> Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114350 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114350"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380017962.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Amado</div> Sophie's Choice (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583991 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583991"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679602895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464854_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9156 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9156"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375707972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141078304_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernhard Schlink</div> The Gift http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18699 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679727256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464889_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Continental Drift (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75287 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75287"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060956739.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414562_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Banks</div> L'Assomoir, Emile Zola http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55120 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Untouchable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19055 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679767479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div>