Lists of Bests: Orange Prize for Fiction's "50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/99 To support the 2004 award, the Orange Prize for Fiction researched the UK's first ever living library of 50 contemporary 'essential reads'. The books were chosen by a sample of 500 people attending the first week of the Guardian Hay festival and represent the audience's definitive 'must have' bookshelf by living writers. ("alternate list source":http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.30665/Books) Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:57:58 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z-DuG4wVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fS5vrBjZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Being Dead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6036 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6036"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lWmIGHXbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Crace</div> Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19108"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lkSckd0gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Faulks</div> The Blind Assassin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10548"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Og6Di3z8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Captain Corelli's Mandolin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513RNC8N3EL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis De Bernieres</div> Cloudstreet : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20999 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20999"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kE3r62c0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Winton</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wr09D9LZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Disgrace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31SA0MG5P1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Enduring Love: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10348 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10348"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EIyGs9ykL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Fingersmith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31281 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31281"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TKrdCj3fL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Waters</div> Faith singer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66743 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosie Scott</div> Fred & Edie: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66744 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66744"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lxPwO4p6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Dawson</div> Fugitive Pieces: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19106 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19106"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Sy3l7tt8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Michaels</div> Girl with a Pearl Earring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14121 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14121"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ot29WZ4UL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tracy Chevalier</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hI6SDdnyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Grace Notes: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66745 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66745"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eefUq9JIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard MacLaverty</div> The Handmaid's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ettPWhyFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> High Fidelity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31222 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31222"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WBVCjhh-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8108 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8108"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519704AD0CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> Hotel World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2064078 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2064078"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140296794.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ali Smith</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R5MDCNKPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64958 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64958"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679444629.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114075700_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Misery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23807 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23807"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416aJnczL9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33367 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33367"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419YCre7g1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hoeg</div> Money http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2578 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2578"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MMzt1Fs0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> Music & Silence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66346 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66346"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EjEL9g94L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rose Tremain</div> The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A48UnwE-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1281 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1281"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A7ZAWA88L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24088 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24088"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510kd18KDhL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanette Winterson</div> The Passion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24090 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24090"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eUTJlbjaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeanette Winterson</div> The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1299 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1299"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410JGY9YN8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n6wrTfyvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetrology: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66746 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66746"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VS4MWEf4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Regeneration Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17550 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17550"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670869295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Riders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7545 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7545"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41509YFWZSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jilly Cooper</div> The Secret History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18438 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18438"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679410325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donna Tartt</div> The Shipping News http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17836 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17836"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f57Yt4jkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. Annie Proulx</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12379"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41q6cW-S18L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Story of Tracy Beaker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65928 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65928"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B4YVT43CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacqueline Wilson</div> A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557828 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557828"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T3KZQB1JL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vikram Seth</div> The Tin Drum (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972575X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> Trainspotting http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10873 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10873"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YwLcq45mL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irvine Welsh</div> Unless: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007154615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Shields</div> What I Loved: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24624 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24624"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q7CCWWTZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Siri Hustvedt</div> White Teeth: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wIEttzK9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JphuOIeHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> The Winshaw Legacy: or, What a Carve Up! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18963 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18963"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gl3c7bogL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Coe</div> Middlesex: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8458 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8458"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mDqoHGrYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> Women's Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51576 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51576"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345353617.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436951_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilyn French</div>