Lists of Bests: apeejam's "Personal 100 Must-Read Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/9861 As in "books I must read, someday," rather than "books one MUST read." A list in progress, both in consumption and production. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:56:00 GMT en-us 0 50 53 50 0 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50810 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50810"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375761195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Sterne</div> White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33450 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33450"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/186207206X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057199034_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iain Sinclair</div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3332 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3332"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18442"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410775.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464691_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340072 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340072"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420258.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46039358_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807126063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014671 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014671"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</div> Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8585 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8585"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521727.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438179_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Ficciones http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1261256 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1261256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/8420633127.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110587215_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4114 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4114"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156364654.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532828_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Hawksmoor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453734 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453734"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140171134.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Ackroyd</div> Jacob's Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1721776 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1721776"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1428011854.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Orlando: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/015670160X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449248.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Emma (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192802372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18947 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18947"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679752552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Foucault</div> From Hell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1644010 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1644010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0861661419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Moore</div> A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060541644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Power</div> Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/816473 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/816473"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060957743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lyndall Gordon</div> Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21475 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21475"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743457900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John le Carre</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120445 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/073933364X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972198 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972198"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420169.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone De Beauvoir</div> Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67483 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67483"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972009X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192799_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Tropic of Cancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802131786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1126634353_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553265954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Crying of Lot 49 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1318 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414511_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> V. (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1292 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1292"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060930217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9325 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9325"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/037575315X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190300_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531235 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531235"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182814.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Mansfield</div> The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11230 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11230"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394757602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440117_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div> Rodinsky's Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202217 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202217"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1862073295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Lichtenstein</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Virgin Suicides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13256 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446670251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1135131769_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> The French Lieutenant's Woman (French Lieutenant's Woman) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795765 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795765"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ESSSL6.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55765682_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> Midnight's Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136584770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">39</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> The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30328 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/156478214X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flann O'Brien</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6065 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312280440.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Stead</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962239 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962239"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060597186.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077662732_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> The Plague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44869057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61309 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61309"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083834066_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207678 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207678"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46500391_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Shining http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1129687 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1129687"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743437497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1024070 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1024070"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419184970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Bronte</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974819 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014028334X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138679407_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">50</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>