Lists of Bests: linggeek's "NPR Holiday Books 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/69814 The complete list of NPR critics’ recommended reading for Holidays 2009. Minus cookbooks, photography books, and gardening books. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120499960 Thu, 31 May 2012 18:55:49 GMT en-us 0 50 92 50 0 Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398627 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398627"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MDHXEZWGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Schick</div> The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406450 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406450"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51U3vfmI3gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press Reference Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6481899 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6481899"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41OmNT4x1oL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Painting Today http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6755134 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6755134"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410DRE8fQbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tony Godfrey</div> The Sartorialist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7396515 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7396515"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BUzNJ6jeL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Schuman</div> Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6415781 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6415781"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zSMiqqSWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Todd Oldham</div> Science: The Definitive Visual Guide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398628 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398628"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fiX-PHBSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by DK Publishing</div> Photowisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398629 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398629"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GLcXlqAoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Blackwell</div> Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398623 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398623"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ky4wkMNDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> LOOKING IN: ROBERT FRANK'S THE AMERICANS, EXPANDED EDITION http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5130057 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5130057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ltaJNYtDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Greenough</div> Stitches: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7059788 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7059788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FjDXfqdIL._SL75_.jpg" 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href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398630"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-0dTyaH5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Hawes</div> The Slippery Year http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6420517 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6420517"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uOO9xahcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Gideon</div> The Old Man and Me (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5209302 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5209302"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lxBEgu8wL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elaine Dundy</div> The Flying Troutmans: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7072342 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7072342"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Rx9I%2BjOwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miriam Toews</div> Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394508 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394508"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zVVxj3u1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel L. Everett</div> American Nerd: The Story of My People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6432566 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6432566"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w1qli1QRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Nugent</div> How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7086487 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7086487"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4146nLhC8uL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Bayard</div> Genealogy of Morals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6492189 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Nietzsche</div> American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6155057 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6155057"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DogzefiqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Biskupic</div> The Good Soldiers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7386618 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7386618"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413D7pJesaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Finkel</div> Strength in What Remains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6115272 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6115272"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ioBdIdldL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tracy Kidder</div> The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6436729 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.R. Reid</div> When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6544869 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6544869"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f5stNHM1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail Collins</div> Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3614696 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3614696"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JO9EflTIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Heiligman</div> Lips Touch: Three Times http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7387926 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7387926"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wCmm0dflL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laini Taylor</div> The Lost Conspiracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6559065 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6559065"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BFSdt3OkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Hardinge</div> Marcelo in the Real World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5838937 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5838937"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51acYVOWXEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francisco Stork</div> When You Reach Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6477667 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6477667"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512lknGGD8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca Stead</div> Season of Ash http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398634 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398634"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31fLBUxAMHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Volpi</div> There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392495 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392495"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517pL8fS84L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya</div> The Armies (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398635 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398635"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416yoi6e3sL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelio Rosero</div> The Confessions of Noa Weber http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4919092 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4919092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41o0-YAHObL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail Hareven</div> The Twin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398636 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398636"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WxgwXDv2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerbrand Bakker</div> American Fantastic Tales Boxed Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7130489 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7130489"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rxlUhDsEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7079257 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7079257"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bRk4HQOVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5896912 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5896912"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4135Qm5b1vL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423564 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6211249 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6211249"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VYllbPl9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund White</div> Treasure Island (Candlewick Illustrated Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5947790 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5947790"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618Mv9F1JWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Conquest of the Useless http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5342828 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Werner Herzog</div> Asterios Polyp http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5036673 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5036673"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YD9wkoD9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Mazzucchelli</div> The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6387972 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6387972"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EQkiD7KRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lydia Davis</div> The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398637 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7398637"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kCDiTm6oL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Madrid</div> Everything Matters!: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394695 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394695"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410fnArnheL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jr., Ron Currie</div> Once the Shore: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6437092 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6437092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LNIotdX2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Yoon</div> Tinkers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4129696 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4129696"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/311fMoa7FpL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Harding</div> In Other Rooms, Other Wonders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7386594 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7386594"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hXtkLTopL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniyal Mueenuddin</div>