FAVORITES

books

FICTION

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

The Traders (Scott Shibuya Brown)

A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff (Christopher Moore)

From Here to Eternity (James Jones)

Once a Runner (John L. Parker, Jr.)

The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)

Lunatics (Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia-Marquez)

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

The Yellow Arrow (Victor Pelevin)

Captain Abdul's Pirate School (Colin McNaughton)

NON-FICTION

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)

The Ridiculous Race (Steve Hely & Val Chandrasekaran)

Lunatic Express (Carl Hoffman)

Born to Run (Christopher McDougall)

Black Earth (Andrew Meier)

Friday Night Lights (Buzz Bissinger)

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Stephen King)

anything by Malcolm Gladwell

movies

La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful) (1997)

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Breaking Away (1979)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Jaws (1975)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

North by Northwest (1959)

The Quiet Man (1952)

An American in Paris (1951)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

FIVE LESSER-KNOWN FILMS

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist (2008)

Life as a House (2001)

Four Lions (2010)

Playtime (1967)

FAVORITE MOVIE CHARACTERS

Angel Guzman (Stand and Deliver)

Yorki (Jojo Rabbit)

Robert E. Lee Prewitt (From Here to Eternity)

Mona Lisa Vito (My Cousin Vinny)

Thom (Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist)

albums

Meet the Beatles (The Beatles)

Live at the Sahara Tahoe (Isaac Hayes)

Innervisions (Stevie Wonder)

Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (Derek and the Dominos)

The Main Event Live (Frank Sinatra)

Aqualung (Jethro Tull)

Caliente (Gato Barbieri)

Smoke "Em If You've Got 'Em (Reverend Horton Heat)

Served Live (Asleep at the Wheel)

New Miserable Experience (Gin Blossoms)

Mothership (Led Zeppelin)

Platinum Jazz (War)