• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  • Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  • The Diviners by Libba Bray
  • Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
  • Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  • The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  • The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
  • Open City by Teju Cole
  • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
  • Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
jan 6 2013 ∞
dec 29 2013 +
  • Crazy Stupid Love
  • 50/50
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Submarine*
  • Bunny and the Bull
  • Ceremony
  • Mary and Max
  • Cedar Rapids
  • Lost in Translation*
  • Reality Bites*
  • The Guard
  • Stranger than Fiction*
  • Hugo
  • The Muppets
  • To Kill a Mockingbird*
  • Friends with Kids
  • Battleship
  • Ghostbusters*
  • Jane Eyre (2011)
  • Jesus Henry Christ
  • Do the Right Thing*
jan 6 2012 ∞
dec 30 2012 +
  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
  • Pole Dances to Gospel Hymns by Andrea Gibson
  • Alanna by Tamora Pierce
  • In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
  • The Woman who Rides like a Man by Tamora Pierce
  • Just Kids by Patti Smith
  • Lionness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
  • Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • Djibouti by Elmore Leonard
  • The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
  • Player One by Douglas Coupland
  • Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes by Daniel Lehlmann
  • Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  • The High Window by Raymond Chandler
  • Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
jan 24 2011 ∞
jan 1 2012 +
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  • Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  • Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins*
  • Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
  • Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
  • A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
  • Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  • Zone One by Colson Whitehead
  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
  • The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
  • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
jan 6 2012 ∞
dec 30 2012 +
  • Wallace & Gromit: Loaf and Death x2
  • The Girl Who Played With Fire
  • Avalon High
  • Sorority Wars
  • Assassination of a High School President
  • Wayne's World
  • My Best Friend's Wedding x2
  • Someone Like You
  • Breaking Upwards
  • Up*
  • Easy A x2
  • When Harry Met Sally*
  • Goodfellas
  • The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
  • TiMER
  • Moon
  • Man of the Century
  • The Adjustment Bureau
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • 10 Things I Hate About You*
  • How To Train Your Dragon
jan 24 2011 ∞
jan 1 2012 +

(*=reread)

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
  • The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
  • This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
  • The Women on the Island by Ho Anh Thai
  • When You Become Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  • Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin*
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • It Happened in Boston? by Russell H. Greenan
  • Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
  • The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing b...
jan 2 2010 ∞
feb 12 2011 +
may 1 2012 ∞
may 1 2012 +
  • Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
  • You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
  • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  • A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  • The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
  • We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcon
  • Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  • Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman*
  • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman*
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman*
  • The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
jan 2 2014 ∞
mar 17 2014 +
  • Barbara
  • The Muppets Movie
  • Wreck-It Ralph
  • Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Celeste & Jesse Forever
  • Fandango
  • Tangled
  • Baby Mama
  • Les Miserables*
  • Bernie
  • Argo
  • Iron Man 3
  • Paranorman
  • Django Unchained
  • Super 8
  • The Brothers Bloom
  • Charade*
  • Oblivion
  • The Great Gatsby (2013)
  • Fast and Furious 6
jan 6 2013 ∞
dec 3 2013 +
  • Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  • A Single Man (2009)*
  • The Piano Teacher (2001)
  • An Education (2009)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)*
  • (500) Days of Summer (2009)*
  • Youth in Revolt (2010)
  • Buffalo Boy/Mùa len trâu (2004)
  • Born into Brothels (2004)
  • London to Brighton (2006)
  • The Accidental Tourist (1988)
  • The Fugitive (1993)
  • Heist (2001)
  • One False Move (1992)
  • Night Moves (1975)
  • The Last Picture Show (1971)
  • Four Months, Three Weeks, and Two Days (2007)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • East of Eden (1955)
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)* x2
jan 2 2010 ∞
jan 24 2011 +
  • 1969 -- Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby -- Who? Shockingly good. Graham Greene crossed with Steve Erickson: Personal and political melt into a man without memory. Appropriate that the Booker was a newbie.
  • 1970 -- The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens -- Abraham and Sarah raise a different sort of dysfunctional brood. This is Sholem Aleichem's "Tevya and His Daughters" made into a wonderfully contemporary, psychological novel.
  • 1971 -- In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul -- No one writes better about how oppression oppresses everyone it touches, including the oppressor. The book's last section is subtly complex and brilliantly nuanced. Marvelous.
  • 1972 -- G. by John Berger -- Truly a reader's book, with hints of Marx and Stendhal and Robbe-Grillet hiding within. No one...
oct 17 2011 ∞
nov 19 2012 +
  • http://www.npr.org/2013/06/04/187601740/...
  • Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner (recommended by Paul Murray)
  • Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (recommended by Roxane Gay)
  • Dare Me by Megan Abbot (recommended by Roxane Gay)
  • In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesamyn Ward http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...
  • The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
  • Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Maus by Art Spiegelman
  • The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
  • Green Wheat by Collette
  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
jun 13 2011 ∞
jun 26 2013 +
  • "I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find out. You don’t know—you haven’t done it yet. You must live life at the top of your voice! At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the echoes." -Ray Bradbury, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews...
  • “Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury
  • "I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!" - Ray Bradbury, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews...
  • "What can I say? Who shall describe the light? It is like an epidemic; it is like your love.” -William Carlos Williams, “A Novelette"
  • "Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can...
feb 10 2009 ∞
jun 6 2012 +