Lists of Bests: olduvai's "A neverending list of books to read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/88132 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:04:31 GMT en-us 0 50 778 50 0 Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7515893 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7515893"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511z6On6yrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryu Murakami</div> Audition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7415519 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7415519"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41o3ygqUVlL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryu Murakami</div> Sixty-Nine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372515 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372515"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41L%2BBgMRiyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryu Murakami</div> In the Miso Soup http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937291 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937291"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518ZEQSRFZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryu Murakami</div> Akata Witch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655100 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655100"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zBx8TDsJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nnedi Okorafor</div> Hotel Iris: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394120 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7394120"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41d79T0Pf9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yoko Ogawa</div> A Palace in the Old Village: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655113 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655113"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uFLQ5lujL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tahar Ben Jelloun</div> The Unnamed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7445345 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7445345"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mSudF6jaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joshua Ferris</div> The Changeling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7592795 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7592795"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fIWJ6QYAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenzaburo Oe</div> The Line http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7497993 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7497993"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NMu78oshL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olga Grushin</div> The Dream Life of Sukhanov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2665310 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2665310"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X3buHn-XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olga Grushin</div> The Fates Will Find Their Way: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7452832 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7452832"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qr6zimlXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Pittard</div> Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7446868 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7446868"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xfIX5SlPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Secret of the Island http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7513036 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7513036"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yD0igXerL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div> Journey to the Center of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2815248 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2815248"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MA5miJphL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div> The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655119 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655119"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DJSaKumLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth von Arnim</div> The Solitary Summer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7615272 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7615272"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OLN-1J5gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth von Arnim</div> Christine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655121 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655121"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eAP5yrpoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth von Arnim</div> The Benefactress (Dodo Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655122 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7655122"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414DnJFXIRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth von Arnim</div> The Swan Thieves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7448335 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7448335"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h8W5URflL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Kostova</div> Authenticity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3584551 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3584551"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HXZ5X8FRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deirdre Madden</div> One By One in the Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2169564 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2169564"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xxG%2BvhTDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deirdre Madden</div> Remembering Light and Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3499981 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3499981"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zs4gTMZHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deirdre Madden</div> Birds of the Innocent Wood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2153406 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2153406"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511oKM-ShzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deirdre Madden</div> Molly Fox's Birthday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7416338 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7416338"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51O14aVGRxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deirdre Madden</div> One of Our Thursdays Is Missing: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7423913 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7423913"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5126565eCuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> The Last Dragonslayer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7460205 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7460205"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KrwWjydXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> Shades of Grey: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7539526 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7539526"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rvnhm7-XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836112 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836112"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JJX9N1QML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime (Jack Spratt Investigates) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2389675 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2389675"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BZECHqQAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> Thursday Next: First Among Sequels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6922748 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6922748"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5106FKc%2BuGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jasper Fforde</div> We So Seldom Look on Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33709 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33709"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NiBaxwS5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Gowdy</div> Mister Sandman: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2938838 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2938838"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KS47APDJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Gowdy</div> The Romantic: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2246208 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2246208"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VJfJnvdWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Gowdy</div> Helpless: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7545319 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7545319"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11EQ4bn4E5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Gowdy</div> The White Bone: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5984 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5984"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Zm5c8bsoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Gowdy</div> Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7038448 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7038448"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qjTMrnZcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Wheeler</div> Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695916 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695916"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51U8xAgnlRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Wheeler</div> The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7626776 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7626776"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412Kz4SoV5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Wheeler</div> Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52273 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52273"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FixSS9bkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Wheeler</div> Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/279198 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/279198"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513ccPwVhVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sara Wheeler</div> Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7456278 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7456278"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PugADZXSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/117649 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/117649"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OEPH0m0SL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5282855 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5282855"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51m5%2BNtMsML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7444383 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7444383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519wF%2BxB4UL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> River at the Centre of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479108 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479108"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RagWsJ%2B8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4556 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4556"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQA82ABVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1662174 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1662174"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B2020VG1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by SIMON WINCHESTER</div> Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7396805 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7396805"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D9DFPQ08L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70178 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70178"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C6rzamyVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div>