Lists of Bests: sipes23's "Famous books that nobody reads" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/69178 These books are such a part of our cultural context (kafka-esque, orwellian, quixotic..) that everyone seems to know what they're about without having read them. Or at least can quote a few lines ("out, dammed spot"). Thu, 31 May 2012 18:53:14 GMT en-us 0 50 19 0 0 War and Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62136 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62136"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4148NW5BG6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21548 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21548"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51270laz19L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GP3Y1FTYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EVNTBM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974444 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974444"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XKFWVQW0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> The Holy Bible http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66507 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Various Authors</div> The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qul9M1NOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Utopia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76839 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76839"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fFkFrUdiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas More</div> The Metamorphosis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5758925 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5758925"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4146VO5CDPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21574 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21574"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A%2BGueb5VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Homer's Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6727515 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6727515"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZxWtDH3uL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gwen Cooper</div> Animal Farm and 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3822 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3822"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QRF64o9%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Communist Manifesto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5028945 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5028945"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51edw5N%2BbNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Engels</div> Mein Kampf Official Nazi Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7055987 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7055987"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ssOqUkRKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adolf Hitler</div> Declaration of Independence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65032 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WaEeUQKxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> LORD OF THE FLIES (With a biographical and critical note by E.L. Epstein, and a portraight of the author) (WIDEVIEW/PERIGEE BOOKS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1786661 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1786661"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FXT2LA.01-A1RG93EOLVXQXB._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50971094_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by WILLIAM GOLDING</div>