February 2014

Books

1) The Path To Power Robert Caro
2) Godric Frederick Buechner
3) The Means of Ascent Robert Caro
4) Summated Rating Scale Construction, An Introdution Paul Spector
5) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
6) Master of the Senate Robert Caro
7) Annihilation Jeff Vandermeer
8) Just Kids Patti Smith
9) Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators Kenneth Crews
10) The Passage of Power Robert Caro
11) Who Controls the Internet? Jack Goldsmith
12) The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker


Movies

1) Dracula Tod Browning
2) Freaks Tod Browning
3) Labyrinth Jim Henson
4) Charlie Wilson's War Mike Nichols
5) Black White + Gray James Crump

January 2014

Books

1) The Kennedy Half Century Larry Saratoga
2) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Philip K Dick
3) The 42nd Parallel John Dos Passos
4) Furious Cool David and Joe Henry
5) 1919 John Dos Passos
6) The Big Money John Dos Passos
7) Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Eric Metaxas
8) The Land Across Gene Wolfe
9) Cabinet of Curiosities Guillermo Del Toro
10) The Great Bridge David McCullough
11) One Minute to Midnight Michael Dobbs


Movies

1) Snatch Guy Ritchie
2) The Lady Vanishes Alfred Hitchcock
3) Night Train to Munich Carol Reed
4) Fargo Coen Brothers
5) Deceptive Practice Molly Bernstein
6) Hellboy Guillermo Del Toro
7) Argo Ben Affleck
8) Bowfinger Frank Oz
9) This Film is Not Yet Rated Kirby Dick
10) The General Buster Keaton
12) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Guy Ritchie
13) Her Spike Jonez
14) Dallas Buyers Club Jean-Marc Vallee

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