Ones I have been meaning to read for a significant period of time. * denotes ones I own.

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller*
• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
• Islandsklukkan by Haldor Laxness*
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe*
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller*
• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende*
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe*
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho*
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
• Generation A by Douglas Coupland
• Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse*
• Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard*
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler*
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated
• Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson*
• From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell*

• diaspora
• peculiar
• cookie
• nostalgia
• transcendental
• astute
• seraphim
• insatiable
• somnambulist
• cinematheque
• plethora
• cloud
• dystopic/dystopia
• chimaera
• avenue
• steampunk
• apothecary
• bohemian
• moonshine
• lonesome
• ephemera

• legendary
• at once
• definitive
• taut, sexy thriller
• juxtaposition
• by turns
• quite simply
• post-modern aesthetic
• celebrity/socialite
• Oscar nod
• talent/talented
• social media
• networking
• souped up
• deked
• industry standard
• raise awareness
• hubby
• baby bump

• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon
• Momo by Michael Ende
• Nicobobinus by Terry Jones
• Souvenir of Canada by Douglas Coupland
• Revolution for the Hell of It by Abbie Hoffman
• White Noise by Don DeLillo

• The Baader-Meinhof Complex
• Moon
• The Beaches of Agnes
• Up!
• Che
• Rudo y Cursi
• Antichrist
• Where the Buffalo Roam
• The X-Files: Fight the Future
• High Life
• A Town Called Panic
• How to Get Ahead in Advertising
• Everlasting Moments
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Chile, Obstinate Memory
• Red Riding
• The Secret in Their Eyes
• Kuky
• Biutiful
• The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
• The SoCalled Movie

• West Coast Odyssey from the Yukon to California
  • San Francisco
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Portland
  • Big Sur
  • Redwood Forests
  • Death Valley
  • San Diego Zoo
• Mongolia
  • Possibly the Trans-Siberian & Trans-Mongolian Railways
• Italy (esp. Siena), Spain, and Portugal
• Patagonia (Carretera Austral, Torres del Paine)
• San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
• India
• New Orleans
• Iceland (tracing the family bloodline?)

• Anything you should not be ingesting while pregnant you probably shouldn't be ingesting at all.
• Drink tea.
• Taking on favours for other people is thoughtful, but beware of screwing yourself over in the process. Sometimes it's best to not be a saviour.
• Local is better 99.99% of the time.
• "So I thought: Ah, life can be flat, and life can be not flat, and clearly flat is not good!" - motto to live by from some French cinematographer
• Bureaucracy is an "agonizing mindfuck," to quote a phrase.
• Snail mail is one of the few things that will keep you sane.
• Keep calm and carry on.

• The Royal Tenenbaums
• M*A*S*H
• The Triplets of Belleville
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Constant Gardener
• My Winnipeg
• Once
• Jules et Jim
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Tillsammans
• Woodstock
• Harold & Maude
• Crumb
• Withnail & I