December 2013

Books:
1) Hide Me Among the Graves Tim Powers
2) The Insanity Defense Woody Allen
3) My Antonia Willa Cather
4) Count Zero William Gibson
5) What Are People For Wendell Berry
6) The Hunted Elmore Leonard
7) Nathan Coulter Wendell Berry
8) The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
9) Truman David McCullough
10) Jagganath Karin Tidbeck
11) Mere Anarchy Woody Allen
12) A River Runs Through It Norman Macclean
13) In Search of the Third Man Charles Drazin
14) Eisenhower in War and Peace Jean Edward Smith
15) Solaris Stanislaw Lem
16) A World Lost Wendell Berry
17) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
18) A Place on Earth Wendell Berry
19) The Divine Invasion Philip K Dick


Movies:
Frozen Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck
The Hobbit Peter Jackson
House of Games David Mamet
Blade Runner Ridley Scott
Love Actually Richard Curtis
Scrooged Richard Donner
Stagecoach John Ford

November 2013

Books:

1) Reamde Neal Stephenson
2) Homunculus James Blaylock
3) American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
4) Bomb Power Gary Wills
5) A Prayer Journal Flannery O'Connor
6) Between Parentheses Roberto Bolano
7) The Last Coin James Blaylock
8) Zero History William Gibson
9) Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10) O Pioneers Willa Cather
11) Lord Kelvin's Machine James Blaylock
12) The Song of the Lark Willa Cather



Movies:

1) Cleanflix Andrew James, Joshua Ligairi
2) Sullivan's Travels Preston Sturges
3) O Brother Where Art Thou Coen Brothers

October 2013

Books:
1) Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem
2) The Discipline of Organizing Robert Glusko
3) Time Out of Joint Philip K Dick
4) Warren G Harding John Dean
5) The Eye Vladimir Nabokov
6) Pandora by Holly Hollander Gene Wolfe
7) Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami
8) Spook Country William Gibson
9) Coolidge, An American Enigma Robert Sobel
10) Herbert Hoover William E Leuchtenburg
11) Traitor to His Class HW Brands
12) The Digging Leviathan James Blaylock
13) The Forgotten Man Amity Schlaes

Movies:
1) Room 237 Rodney Asher
2) The People vs. George Lucas Alexander Phillipe
3) Gravity Alfonso Cuaron
4) The Counselor Ridley Scott

September 2013

Books:
1) The Last Days of Innocence Meirion and Susie Harries
2) Dagon Fred Chappell
3) Woodrow Wilson Milton Cooper Jr
4) A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
5) The Last Gentleman Walker Percy
6) After the Quake Haruki Murakami
7) American Caesar William Manchester
8) Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
9) The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov Andrea Pitzer


Movies:
1) Miller's Crossing Coen Brothers
2) Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino
3) Heckler Michael Addis
4) Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino
5) Mimic Guillermo Del Toro
6) Tom Papa Live in New York City Rob Zombie
7) Slacker Richard Linklater
8)  The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World Françoise Levie
9) Nosferatu FW Murnau
10) The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
11) Dredd Pete Travis
12) His Girl Friday Howard Hawks
13) Walker Percy: A Documentary Film Win Riley
14) Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
15) How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lolita Emma Boswell
16) Clerks Kevin Smith
17) The Gospel According to Philip K Dick Mark Steensland

August 2013

Books:
1) Native Son Richard Wright
2) William Howard Taft: The Travails of  a Progressive Conservative Jonathan Luhrie
3) How the Irish Saved Civilization Thomas Cahill
4) In Sunlight and in Shadow Mark Helprin
5) WB Yeats The Man and the Millieu Keith Aldritt
6) The Brothers Karamazov Fyoder Dostoevsky
7) The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
8) American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865-1900 HW Brands
9) City Primeval Elmore Leonard
10) Titan Ron Chernow

Movies:
1) Waiting for Guffman Christopher Guest
2) The Conjuring James Wan
3) A Mighty Wind Christopher Guest
4) Alien 3 David Fincher
5) The Wolverine James Mangold
6) O Brother Where Art Thou Coen Brothers
7) Bela Fleck: Lay Down Your Heart Sascha Paladino
8) Chris Thile How to Grow a Band Mark Meatto
9) Miller's Crossing Coen Brothers
10) Serenity Joss Whedon

July 2013

Books:
1) A Game of Thrones George RR Martin
2) Swamplandia Karen Russell
3) The Proud Tower Barbara Tuchman
4) Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
5) Tourist Season Carl Hiasson
6) The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
7) Anno-Dracula Kim Newman
8) Family Fang Kevin Wilson
9) Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
10) Last Call Daniel Okrent
11) Trickster Makes This World Lewis Hyde

Movies:
1) Mr and Mrs Smith
2) Avalon Barry Levinson
3) Pacific Rim Guillermo Del Toro
4) Best in Show Christopher Guest
5) The Thin Man WS Van Dyke
6) Aliens James Cameron
7) For Your Consideration Christopher Guest
8) Get Shorty Barry Levinson

June 2013

Books:
1) Winter's Tale Mark Helprin
2) Moonlight Mile Dennis Lehane
3) Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
4) The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
5) Neuromancer William Gibson
6) Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
7) The Presidency of William McKinley Lewis Gould
8) Godric Frederick Buechner
9) The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman
10) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
11) City of Saints and Madmen Jeff Vandermeer
12) Theodore Rex Edmund Morris
13) Lion Country Frederick Buechner
14) Cuba Libre Elmore Leonard
15) Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris
16) True Grit Charles Portis



Movies:
1) Metropolis Fritz Lang
2) From Dusk Till Dawn Robert Rodriguez
3) Mars Attacks Tim Burton
4) Star Trek Into Darkness JJ Abrams
5) Wings of Desire Wim Wenders
6) Man of Steel Zach Snyder
7) Raising Arizona Coen Brothers
8) LA Confidential Curtis Hanson
9) Notorious Alfred Hitchcock
10) Side Effects Steven Soderburgh

May 2013

Books:
1) The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
2) Gilead Marilynne Robinson
3) Awake in the Dark Roger Ebert
4) Last Call Tim Powers
5) The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
6) The Given Day Dennis Lehane
7) Native Tongue Carl Hiaason
8) Freedom Jonathan Franzen
9) The Gift Vladimir Nabokov
10) Hitchcock/Truffault
11) The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison Homer Socolofsky


Movies:
1) Friday the 13th Sean S Cunningham
2) Schindler's List Steven Spielberg
4) Pierrot Le Fou Jean Luc Godard
5) The Pledge Sean Penn
6) Ministry of Fear Fritz Lang
7) Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick
8) Mr and Mrs Smith Doug Liman
9) The Birds Alfred Hitchcock
10) Men in Black 3 Barry Sonnenfeld
11) MASH Robert Altman
12) Being There Hal Ashby
13) Black Dynamite Scott Sanders
14) Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock
15) Network Sydney Lumet
16) Platoon Oliver Stone

April 2013

Books:
1) How to Live- A Life of Montaigne in One Questions and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sara Blakewell
2) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
3) Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself David Lipski
4) The Reader Bernhard Schlink
5) The Shining Stephen King
6) Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor
7) Pictures at a Revolution Mark Harris
8) Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind
9) Push Sapphire
10) The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington
11) Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris
12) The Complete Essays Montaigne
13) Home Marilynn Robinson
14) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis


Movies:

1) In Bruges Martin McDonagh
2) Diabolique Henri-George Clouzot
3) Monty Python's Life of Brian Terry Jones
4) The Paradine Case Alfred Hitchcock
5) Playtime Jaques Tati
6) Young and Innocent (alt. title The Girl Was Young) Alfred Hitchcock
7) Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa
8) Bob Le Flambeur Jean Pierre Melville
9) The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
10) Repo Man Alex Cox
12) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
13) Before Sunrise Richard Linklater
14) Before Sunset Richard Linklater
15) The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdonovich
16) Sunrise FW Murnau

March 2013

Books:
1) Chester Alan Arthur Zachary Karabel
2) The Pale King David Foster Wallace
3) The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe
4) Claw of the Concilliator Gene Wolfe
5) Sword of the Lichtor Gene Wolfe
6) Castle of the Autarch Gene Wolfe
7) Mary Vladimir Nabokov
8) Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
9) Grover Cleveland Henry Graff
10) Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan
11) 2666 Roberto Bolano
12) Dirt: The Erosion of Civiliations David R Montgomery
13) A Childhood: A biography of a Place Harry Crews
14) A Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick
15) Bag of Bones Stephen King
16) Dimension of Miracles Robert Sheckly


Movies:
1) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
2) Skyfall Sam Mendes
3) The New World Terrance Malick
4) M Fritz Lang
5) The Town Ben Affleck
6) Badlands Terrance Malick
7) White Krzysztof Kieślowski
8) The Great Moment Preston Sturges
9) The Lodger Alfred Hitchcock
10) How Green Was My Valley John Ford
11) Five Easy Pieces Bob Rafelson
12) The Philadelphia Story George Cukor

February 2013

Books:
1) Battle Cry of Freedom John McPherson
2) Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
3) Memoir From Antproof Case Mark Helprin
4) Moby Dick Herman Melville
5) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
6) Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff
7) The Thanatos Syndrome Walker Percy
8) A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller
9) The first three Swamp Thing graphic novels Alan Moore


Movies:
1) Gross Pointe Blank George Armitage
2) The Game David Fincher

January 2013

Books:
1) The Aleph Jorge Luis Borges
2) More Baths, Less Talk Nick Hornby
3) The Man Who Saved the Union: Ullysses Grant at War and Peace HW Brand
4) The Translator John Crowley
5) Rutherford B. Hayes Hans L. Trefousse
6) Destiny of the Republic Candace Millard
7) Every Love Story is a Ghost Story DT Max
8) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
9) Girl With Curious Hair David Foster Wallace

Movies:
1) Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
2) The Hobbit Peter Jackson
3) Intolerable Cruelty Coen Brothers (x2)
4) Looper Rian Johnson
5) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Lorene Scafaria
6) Shame Steve McQueen