• Anatomy of a Fall
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Belfast
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
  • Green Book
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri
  • La La Land
  • Steve Jobs
  • Birdman
  • Her
  • Django Unchained
  • Midnight In Paris
  • The Social Network
  • Up In the Air
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Queen
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Sideways
jun 24 2020 ∞
feb 7 2024 +
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Pinocchio
  • Encanto
  • Soul
  • Missing Link
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Coco
  • Zootopia
  • Inside Out
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • Frozen
  • Brave
  • The Adventures of Tintin
  • Toy Story 3
  • Up
  • WALL-E
  • Ratatouille
  • Cars
jun 24 2020 ∞
feb 7 2024 +
  • Shrek
  • Spirited Away
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Incredibles
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  • Happy Feet
  • Ratatouille
  • Wall-E
  • Up
  • Toy Story 3
  • Rango
  • Brave
  • Frozen
  • Big Hero 6
  • Inside Out
  • Zootopia
  • Coco
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
  • Toy Story 4
  • Soul
apr 6 2017 ∞
mar 11 2024 +
  • Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
  • William Faulkner, The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
  • James Jones, From Here to Eternity
  • Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
  • Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
  • William Faulkner, A Fable
  • John O'Hara, Ten North Frederick
  • Wright Morris, The Field of Vision
  • John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
  • Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel
  • Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus
  • Conrad Richter, The Waters of Kronos
  • Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
  • J. F. Powers, Morte d'Urban
  • John Updike, The Centaur
  • Saul Bellow, Herzog
  • Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
mar 31 2017 ∞
nov 16 2023 +
  • The Harry Potter series
  • The Hunger Games series
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Fault in Our Stars
  • The Hobbit
  • The Catcher In the Rye
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Looking For Alaska
  • The Book Thief
  • The Giver series
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
  • The Outsiders
  • The Anne of Green Gables series
  • His Dark Materials
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • The Princess Bride
  • Lord of the Flies
  • The Divergent series
  • Paper Towns
sep 4 2015 ∞
sep 5 2015 +
  • Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
  • Hernan Diaz, Trust
  • Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus
  • Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
  • Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
  • Richard Powers, The Overstory
  • Andrew Sean Greer, Less
  • Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
  • Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
  • Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
  • Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
  • Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad
  • Paul Harding, Tinkers
  • Elizabeth, Strout, Olive Kitteridge
  • Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Cormac McCarthy, The Road
  • Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
  • Edward P. Jones, The Known World
  • Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
  • Richard Russo, Empire Falls
nov 6 2008 ∞
may 8 2023 +
  • Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • Chaireas and Kallirhoe
  • Heliodorus: Aethiopika
  • The Golden Ass
  • One Thousand and One Nights
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel
  • Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
  • The Unfortunate Traveller
  • Don Quixote
  • The Pilgrim's Progress
  • La Princesse De Clèves
  • Oroonoko
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
  • Love in Excess
  • Moll Flanders
  • Roxana
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • A Modest Proposal
  • Joseph Andrews
nov 28 2007 ∞
mar 13 2024 +
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  • Pinocchio (1940)
  • Fantasia (1940)
  • Dumbo (1941)
  • Bambi (1942)
  • Saludos Amigos (1942)
  • The Three Callaberos
  • Make Mine Music (1946)
  • Fun & Fancy Free (1947)
  • Melody Time (1948)
  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
  • Cinderella (1950)
  • Alice in Wonderland (1951)
  • Peter Pan (1953)
  • Lady and the Tramp (1955)
  • Sleeping Beauty (1959)
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
  • The Sword in the Stone (1963)
  • The Jungle Book (1967)
  • The Aristocats (1970)
sep 15 2020 ∞
aug 18 2023 +
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • Schindler's List (1993)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • The General (1926)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Chinatown (1974)
jun 24 2020 ∞
sep 18 2023 +
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Fabelmans
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Nomadland
  • 1917
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri
  • Moonlight
  • The Revenant
  • Boyhood
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Argo
  • The Descendants
  • The Social Network
  • Avatar
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Atonement
  • Babel
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • The Aviator
jun 24 2020 ∞
feb 7 2024 +
  • P.H. Newby, Something to Answer For
  • Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
  • J.G. Farrell, Troubles
  • V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State
  • John Berger, G.
  • J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
  • Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
  • Stanley Middleton, Holiday
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
  • David Storey, Saville
  • Paul Scott, Staying On
  • Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
  • William Golding, Rites of Passage
  • Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
  • Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
  • J.M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K
  • Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • Keri Hulme, The Bone People
  • Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
mar 31 2017 ∞
feb 7 2024 +
  • 100 SIDEWAYS MILES by Andrew Smith (Fiction)
  • 1984 by George Orwell (Science Fiction)
  • THE 5TH WAVE by Rick Yancey (Science Fiction)
  • THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie (Fiction)
  • AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by John Green (Fiction)
  • THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by Mary E. Pearson (Fiction)
  • AFTERWORLDS by Scott Westerfeld (Fiction)
  • THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thompson (Science Fiction)
  • ALANNA: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (Fantasy)
  • THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho (Religion/Spirituality)
  • THE ALCHEMIST: A Graphic Novel written by Paul Coelho and Derek Ruiz, illustrated ...
mar 10 2017 ∞
mar 21 2017 +
  • The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
  • Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
  • The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
  • A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
  • 1984, by George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
  • The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
  • The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
  • The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan
  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell
  • Neuromancer, by William Gibson
  • Watchmen, by Alan Moore
  • I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
  • Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Hei...
sep 6 2015 ∞
jul 19 2016 +
  • White Russians
  • knitted or crocheted berets
  • revolving doors
  • pumpkin-flavored anything
  • good Bob Dylan covers
  • guys in well-fitting suits, and not with white shirts
  • stringed instruments
  • Diet Coke
  • Diet Cherry Coke
  • sweet potato casserole with pecans instead of marshmallows
  • a well-turned sentence
  • proper grammar
  • songs you can dance to
  • curly hair, especially on men and small children
  • happy babies, especially when they laugh
  • eating an apple while reading a book outside on a fall day
  • the smell of libraries and bookstores
oct 18 2014 ∞
apr 8 2024 +
  • Homer, Iliad
  • Homer, Odyssey
  • Hesiod, Works and Days
  • Hesiod, Theogony
  • Herodotus, Histories
  • Aeschylus, Agamemnon
  • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers
  • Aeschylus, Eumenides
  • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
  • Sophocles, Oedipus the King
  • Sophocles, Antigone
  • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
  • Sophocles, Ajax
  • Sophocles, Philoctetes
  • Sophocles, Women of Trachis
  • Sophocles, Electra
  • Euripides, Bacchae
  • Euripides, Medea
  • Euripides, Iphigeneia at Aulis
  • Euripides, Trojan Women
  • Euripides, Hippolytus
nov 2 2011 ∞
mar 1 2023 +

(An asterisk indicates the winner.)

  • Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
  • Karen Shepard, The Bad Boy's Wife
  • Lily Tuck, The News From Paraguay
  • T.C. Boyle, The Inner Circle
  • Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  • Ben Jones, The Rope Eater
  • Cynthia Ozick, Heir To the Glimmering World
  • Stephen Amidon, Human Capital
  • *David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
  • Muriel Spark, The Finishing School
  • Ward Just, An Unfinished Season
  • Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
  • Tom Wolfe, I am Charlotte Simmons
  • Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir
  • Louis de Bernieres, Birds Without Wings
  • Lorraine Adams, Harbor
  • Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
  • Dave Bergen, The Time In Between
  • Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
mar 2 2011 ∞
jan 12 2024 +
  • Absinthe Drip – absinthe, water, sugar
  • Air Mail – rhum, lime, honey, champagne
  • Alexander – spirit, creme de cacao, cream
  • Algonquin – rye, french vermouth, pineapple
  • Americano – campari, italian vermouth, soda
  • Aperol Spritz – aperol, sparkling wine
  • Aviation – gin, lemon, maraschino, creme de violette
  • Bijou – gin, italian vermouth, green chartreuse, orange bitters
  • Blackthorn – irish whiskey, french vermouth, absinthe, angostura bitters
  • Blinker – rye, grapefruit, raspberry syrup
  • Blood & Sand – scotch, orange juice, italian vermouth, cherry heering
  • Bramble – gin, lemon, creme de mure
dec 31 2009 ∞
feb 7 2024 +
  • A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  • The Great Train Robbery (1903)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Les Vampires (1916)
  • Intolerance (1916)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005)
  • Broken Blossoms (1919)
  • Within Our Gates (1920)
  • Way Down East (1920)
  • Orphans of the Storm (1921)
  • The Phantom Carriage (1921)
  • The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)
  • Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
  • Nanook of the North (1922)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Häxan (1922)
  • Foolish Wives (1922)
  • Our Hospitality (1923)
  • La Roue (1923)
  • The Last Laugh (1924)
  • Strike (1925)
dec 12 2007 ∞
nov 26 2023 +
  • Shoe-Shine
  • Monsieur Vincent (Maurice Cloche)
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • The Walls of Malapaga (René Clément)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • Forbidden Games (1952)
  • Gate of Hell (1953)
  • Miyamoto Musashi
  • La Strada (1954)
  • Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957)
  • Mon Oncle (1958)
  • Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)
  • The Virgin Spring (1960)
  • THROUGH a GLASS DARKLY (1961)
  • SUNDAYS AND CYBELE
  • 8½ (1963)
  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica)
  • The Shop on Main Street (1965)
  • A Man and a Woman (1966)
  • Closely Watched Trains (1966)
jun 24 2020 ∞
mar 11 2024 +
  • Poor Things
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • West Side Story
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Green Book
  • Lady Bird
  • La La Land
  • The Martian
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • American Hustle
  • Les Miserables
  • The Artist
  • The Kids are All Right
  • The Hangover
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Dreamgirls
  • Walk the Line
  • Sideways
  • Lost In Translation
jun 24 2020 ∞
feb 7 2024 +
  • 7th Heaven
  • The Patriot
  • The Big House
  • Cimarron
  • Bad Girl
  • Little Women
  • It Happened One Night
  • The Informer
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • The Life of Emile Zola
  • Pygmalion
  • Gone With the Wind
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • Casablanca
  • Going My Way
  • The Lost Weekend
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
apr 6 2017 ∞
mar 11 2024 +
  • The Great McGinty
  • Citizen Kane
  • Woman of the Year
  • Princess O'Rourke
  • Wilson
  • Marie-Louise
  • The Seventh Veil
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
  • Battleground
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • An American In Paris
  • The Lavender Hill Mob
  • Titanic (1953)
  • On the Waterfront
  • Interrupted Melody
  • The Red Balloon
  • Designing Woman
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Pillow Talk
  • The Apartment
  • Splendor in the Grass
jun 3 2010 ∞
mar 11 2024 +
  • Wings
  • The Broadway Melody
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Cimarron
  • Grand Hotel
  • Cavalcade
  • It Happened One Night
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The Great Ziegfeld
  • The Life of Emile Zola
  • You Can't Take It with You
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Rebecca
  • How Green Was My Valley
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • Casablanca
  • Going My Way
  • The Lost Weekend
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • Hamlet
feb 25 2008 ∞
mar 11 2024 +