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