Lists of Bests: southernbohemian's "What I Read in 2005" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/9063 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:32:04 GMT en-us 0 50 71 50 0 Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Around the World: The Illustrated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57821 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57821"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316731706.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ewan Mcgregor</div> Human Croquet: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5862 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312186886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Atkinson</div> America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton (The American Moment) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/549730 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/549730"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801858720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491615_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William C. Berman</div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080 <div id="position">4</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> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> At Lady Molly's (Dance to the Music of Time) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1409533 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1409533"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099472430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Powell</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van (Today Show Book Club #5) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25580 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812969650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Bennett</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1395333 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038572179X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Scoop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7164 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134658746_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28177 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28177"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64055418_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Hughes</div> Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/125756 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/125756"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618619178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114694117_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Guy</div> Unravelling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1649476 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1649476"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156006103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Graver</div> The Crimson Petal and the White http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4056 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4056"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156028778.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Faber</div> The Woodchipper Murder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1289272 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1289272"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0595183549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Herzog</div> Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/508277 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/508277"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316861308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120459416_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Holland</div> Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Last September http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10527 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10527"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Bowen</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10816 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10816"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393308804.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Lullaby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10570 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385722192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098727946_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/480318 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/480318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593081936.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8693 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375405534.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438254_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Snow Falling / Cedars http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189917 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189917"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/074754655X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Guterson</div> The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25549 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25549"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967194.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> A Million Little Pieces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58661 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58661"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307276902.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141075472_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Frey</div> Rabbit, Run http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13526 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> A House for Mr. Biswas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9142 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9142"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375707166.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438435_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> Out of Africa (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18566 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18566"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600213.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114076940_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> Angels & Insects: Two Novellas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18937 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18937"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679751343.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464960_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> The Ginger Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24132 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24132"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802137954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. P. Donleavy</div> Songbook http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31212 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573223565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> A Certain Chemistry: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25538 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mil Millington</div> Peter Pan (Aladdin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19959 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689866917.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Barrie</div> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150141 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150141"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439785960.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> Autobiography of Malcolm X http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64986 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64986"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345379756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm X</div> Legs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84829 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84829"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140064842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William J. Kennedy</div> Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156421178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Daughter of Fortune: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9871 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9871"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038082101X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7158 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7158"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316925195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113646701_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> Prodigal Summer: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1477 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1477"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060959037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> The Lovely Bones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6925 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316168815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Sebold</div> The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/201873 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/201873"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083482X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Bowles</div> Decline and Fall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7162 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134590351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Old Wives' Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1298627 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1298627"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404384189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold Bennett</div> The Constant Gardener : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29415 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29415"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1416503900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John le Carre</div> Young Lonigan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503166 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503166"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451529138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132365587_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James T. Farrell</div> The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19931 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19931"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689856741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> Shadows on the Grass (Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1368580 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1368580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140180435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1480334 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Thomas Farrell</div>