Lists of Bests: 2kaboom's "150 Books to improve your mind" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/9716 I started this list by compiling several 'Best of' lists for Fiction (American, British, European), Non-Fiction (general), Philosophy, Plays, Collections (Poems, Essays, Complete Works Of-) with the intention of improving my vocabulary and becoming well-read person. This list is by no means final, and I continue to add to it whenever I see fit. If you have any recommendations, please pass them along. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:13:11 GMT en-us 0 50 149 50 0 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Unabridged) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/36039 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11033 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11033"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393967956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110889 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/110889"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195147642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Emma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495600"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439580.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Mansfield Park: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974082 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974082"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393967913.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439999_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Northanger Abbey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1036160 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1036160"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1854598376.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19145 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19145"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465050_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> City of Glass: The Graphic Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47074 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47074"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312423608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113633744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428498 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428498"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802118216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Adventures of Augie March http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1740666 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Jane Eyre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308221 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299522 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299522"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143058118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> THE WAY OF ALL FLESH http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/827200 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/827200"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BQSTU6.01-A19SKUY3P2YXBV._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47052777_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Butler</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> L'Etranger (Collection Folio, 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34594 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34594"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/2070360024.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962244 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962244"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0803214294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/976885 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/976885"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019283360X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188948_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Cherry Orchard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1585916 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1585916"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1419156519.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1137912 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1512602 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43141 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43141"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192801694.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Last of the Mohicans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962314 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962314"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404315608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056514367_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenimore Cooper</div> The Red Badge of Courage & "The Veteran" (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964325 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783202.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Crane</div> Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1395333 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave (Penguin Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430120 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> The count of Monte Christo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267204 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189469 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530039.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59437 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59437"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439629.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1740788 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11032 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11032"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393964817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375504524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Light in August: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171590 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171590"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067964248X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">41</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> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352110 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352110"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551113813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> A Passage to India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046027X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> Howards End (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206600 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206600"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393970116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538307_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> Goethe's Faust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65086 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385031149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076005075_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Lord of the Flies (Casebook) (Casebook Edition Text Notes and Criticism) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103649 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103649"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399506438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11027 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11027"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393959031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div>