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

December 2012

Books:

1) Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
2) Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
3) Both Flesh and Not David Foster Wallace
4) Suttree Cormac McCarthy
5) The Luzhin Defense Vladimir Nabokov
6) The Troika Stepan Chapman
7) Impeached David O Stewart
8) Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis

Movies:

1) Killing them Softly Andrew Dominik
2) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
3) LA Confidential Curtis Hanson

November 2012

Books:
Freddy and Frederika Mark Helprin
Essentials of Business Budgeting Robert G Finney
Lancelot Walker Percy
The Second Coming Walker Percy
Light M. John Harrison


Movies:
Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski
Groundhog Day Harold Ramis
The Third Man Carol Reed
Barton Fink Coen Brothers
Crank Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Fargo Coen Brothers
Wreck It Ralph Rich Moore
Head Bob Rafelson
Speed Jan de Bont
Easy Rider Dennis Hopper
Rushmore Wes Anderson

October 2012

Books
1) Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
2) Library and Information Center Management Barbara Moran


Movies
1) Bringing up Baby Howard Hawks
2) Eating Raoul Paul Bartel
3) Glengarry Glen Ross James Foley
4) Brewster's Millions Walter Hill
5) Brotherhood of Blood Michael Roesh
6) Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz
7) The Master Paul Thomas Anderson

September 2012

Books:
1) Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
2) Cosmopolis Don Dellilo
3) Brave New World Aldous Huxley
4) White Buildings Hart Crane

Movies:
1) His Girl Friday Howard Hawks
2) Confidence James Foley
3) Christmas in July Preston Sturges
4) The Palm Beach Story Preston Sturges
5) The Valet Francis Veber
6) Alien Ridley Scott
7) Grosse Pointe Blank George Armitage
8) Wanderlust David Wain
9) Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Shane Black
10) Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie Vilgot Sjoman
11) Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz
12) Hail the Conquering Hero Preston Sturges
13) Sleepwalk With Me Mike Birbiglia
14) Fast Five Justin Lin
15) Le Samurai Jean Pierre Melville
16) Cabin in the Woods Drew Godard
17) Odd Man Out Carol Reed
18) Do the Right Thing Spike Lee
19) Manhattan Woody Allen
20) Fletch Michael Ritchie
21) The Game David Fincher
22) Looper Rian Johnson
23) Robocop Paul Verhoeven
24) Brazil Terry Gilliam
25) Gremlins Joe Dante
 

August 2012

Books:
1) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis
2) Bad Science Ben Goldacre
3) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
4) The Black Dahlia James Ellroy


Movies:
1) This Gun For Hire Frank Tuttle
2) Radio Days Woody Allen
3) The Thin Red Line Terrance Malick
4) La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini
5) The Thin Man WS Van Dyke
6) Our Man in Havana Carol Reed
7) Source Code Duncan Jones
8) Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese
9) Hour of the Wolf Ingmar Bergman 
10) Tree of Life Terrance Malick
11) Roman Holiday William Wyler
12) Kind Hearts and Coronets Robert Hamer
13) Gran Torino Clint Eastwood 
14) Leon: The Professional Luc Besson
15) The Virgin Spring Ingmar Bergman
16) Shutter Island  Martin Scorcese
17) Paths of Glory  Stanley Kubrick
18) Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick
19) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Martin Scorsese
20) Doubt John Patrick Shanley
21) Stranger than Paradise Jim Jarmush 
22) Stalag 17 Billy Wilder
23) The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah
24) The Guard John Michael McDonagh
25) The Changeling Clint Eastwood
26) The Big Sleep Howard Hawks 
27) Scarface  Howard Hawks
28) Night Train to Munich Carol Reed 
29) Almost Famous Cameron Crowe 
30) The Great McGinty Preston Sturges
31) The Whole Nine Yards Jonathan Lynn
32) The Secret of Kells  Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
33) The Guard John Michael McDonagh