Lists of Bests: Los Angeles Times 2010 Summer Reading http://www.listsofbests.com/list/75840 Thu, 31 May 2012 18:59:58 GMT en-us 0 50 59 50 0 Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422589 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422589"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h-7iPWgOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Pinkwater</div> Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422591 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422591"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VFBu8xUNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Hiltzik</div> Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422592 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422592"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yyMfr9f7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Bissell</div> Dead and Alive: A Novel (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6367524 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6367524"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WRecGq-SL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dean Koontz</div> Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422593 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422593"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZPl%2B4TNRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Watson</div> Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422594 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422594"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519wP7cmbML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Kashner</div> Go, Mutants!: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422595 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422595"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-TxvC9A4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry Doyle</div> The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422596 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422596"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511Z2d-t-4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard DeVoto</div> How Did You Get This Number http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422597 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422597"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uPXjTGTKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sloane Crosley</div> The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422598 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422598"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VoLrzw8DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Yager</div> I Know I Am, But What Are You? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422599 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422599"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rCe4ZvhFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Bee</div> Imperial Bedrooms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392940 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392940"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513b8EQGwtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bret Easton Ellis</div> In My Father's House: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422600 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422600"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410Hj17xraL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. Lynn Harris</div> Insatiable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422601 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422601"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41l5NTPtALL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meg Cabot</div> Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422602 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422602"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EVS5rluNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Lachman</div> Kraken http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7400464 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7400464"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51baBl%2BFT6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by China Mieville</div> Nelson DeMille'sThe Lion (Hardcover)(2010) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422603 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422603"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tB98U3mTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by N., (Author) DeMille</div> Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7388171 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7388171"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dW1hwsS8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Dalrymple</div> The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7420318 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7420318"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EQU86grLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aimee Bender</div> Role Models http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422604 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422604"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Z%2BxQos6IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Waters</div> Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422605 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422605"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51akfua%2B0EL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Spot: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422606 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422606"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HVx3n8nCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Means</div> Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5904137 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5904137"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FkzrjvsvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nadine Gordimer</div> This Is Where We Live: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422607 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422607"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516bqN9Dg6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janelle Brown</div> You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422608 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422608"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Kp-jmRQGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Doggett</div> The Cookbook Collector: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7418935 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7418935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515msbrziwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allegra Goodman</div> Dear Darkness: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4977006 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4977006"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413oSk%2BLbOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Young</div> The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422609 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422609"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61QQAKQyhKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Kean</div> Discord's Apple http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422610 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422610"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5155JCdzlxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carrie Vaughn</div> The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422611 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422611"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LWfO70iKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Moody</div> Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422612 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422612"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OJJUSNxyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Jay Dolin</div> Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422613 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422613"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Iw%2BhA6hoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Starr</div> Memory Wall: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422614 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422614"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61t3fHEyM0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Doerr</div> Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422615 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422615"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2Btmb0-AaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Barra</div> Savages: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422616 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422616"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yl2XEEeBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Winslow</div> Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7415001 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7415001"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518JQ7kMrNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Shteyngart</div> The Taken: A Hazel Micallef Mystery (Hazel Micallef Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422617 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422617"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TmQDKq8XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Inger Ash Wolfe</div> Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422618 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422618"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NuR-WqugL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rob Sheffield</div> The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422619 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422619"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51krVSaPrYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Langer</div> This Must Be the Place: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422620 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422620"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sTcEGF9-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Racculia</div> The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422621 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422621"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EOB6Gjf5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Bryson</div> Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422622 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422622"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dsUKc3DUL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yunte Huang</div> City of Veils: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422623 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422623"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413Yy3IEEnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zoë Ferraris</div> Composed: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422624 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422624"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5112XdslhLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosanne Cash</div> The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6953354 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6953354"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511vxXhqg3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Encounter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422625 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422625"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GVi4kvqsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America (John MacRae Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422627 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422627"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R1KKsoqCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey O'Brien</div> Freedom: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422628 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422628"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nOpPRDIKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Fubarnomics: A Lighthearted, Serious Look at America's Economic Ills http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422629 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422629"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fE-uRbf-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert E. Wright</div> Juliet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422630 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7422630"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Na8xx46XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Fortier</div>