List_To read/watch
Adaptation
The Big Lebowski
Acton, Mary, Learning to Look at Paintings (Routledge, London and New York,1997) ISBN 0415148901
Acton, Mary, Learning to look at Modern Art (London & New York, Routledge, 2004) ISBN 0415238129
Sutton, I., Western Architecture: A Survey (Thames & Hudson, London, 1999) ISBN 0500203164
Summerson, J., Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (Yale University Press, Yale/London, 1953) ISBN 0300058861
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. Peter L. Bernstein.
James Nohrnberg’s The Analogy of the Faerie Queene, Harold Bloom’s The Visionary Company, Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel, Geoffrey Hartman’s Beyond Formalism, Martin Price’s To the Palace of Wisdom, Martha Nussbaum’s The Fragility of Goodness, Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era, Irving Howe’s Politics and the Novel, Ronald Paulson’s Satire and the Novel, Frank Kermode’s Romantic Image, and William Empson’s Some Versions of the Pastoral. Curtius’ European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages remains the essential guide to the topoi that engage medieval and Renaissance literature. These fourteen books, some of them published as long ago as the 1930s (Empson), provide the background and assumptions for much later work. Margaret Doody’s The True Story of the Novel
James Gleick — Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Brian Greene — The Elegant Universe
Richard Feynman — Six Easy Pieces
Hawking — God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
John Derbyshire — Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Choices, Values, and Frames, Kahneman
Javier Marias — A Heart So White
Rosie Carpe, Marie Ndiaye
Un Brillant Avenir, Catherine Cusset
Lives of the Poets, Michael Schmidt
The Cricket In Times Square, George Selden
Crime And Punishment
War And Peace
The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
Compassion, Henri Nouwen
Esther Averill
The Cat Who Came for Christmas, Cleveland Amory
There are cats in this book, Viviane Schwarz
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
Why Sinatra Matters, Pete Hamill
Mating, Norman Rush
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
The Twenty Years’ Crisis 1919-1939, E H Carr
Nudge, Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, Jincy Willett
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan
Rebecca West
The Lost Heart of Asia, Colin Thubron.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Time and Again, Jack Finney.
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Lincoln, David Herbert Donald
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Going after Cacciato, Tim O’Brien
Spaces of Hope, David Harvey
Austin Farrer
David Markson, Reader’s Block
Briefing For A Descent Into Hell, Doris Lessing
G., John Berger
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
Freedom at Midnight, Larry Collins
Breaking The Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon: Daniel Dennett
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the invention of the computer, David Leavitt
Cazalet Quartet, Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Olga Grushin
No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod
Childhood and Society, Erik Ericsson
The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
The Way We Eat, Peter Singer & Jim Mason
Jacqueline Wilson
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To buy
MFK Fisher
Jancis Robinson
Emily Dickinson
David Markson
Stardust
Vertigo’s fables
Horwitz: When The Sky Is Like Lace
Leo Lionni
Discovery Of Heaven, Mulisch
Richard Ellman Joyce biography
Norman Sherry Greene biography
Graham Greenes other than:
The Human Factor
The Ministry Of Fear
The Quiet American
The Confidential Agent
The End Of The Affair
The Heart Of The Matter
The Power And The Glory
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To watch/rewatch:
The Insider
What’s Up Doc
Citizen Kane
De battre mon coeur s�est arr�t�
Leaving Las Vegas
Fargo
Master and Commander
Rocky
Raging Bull
A Man For All Seasons
Some Like It Hot
Children Of Paradise
M
The Pianist
Jules Et Jim
The Lives Of Others
Husbands And Wives
Only Angels Have Wings
A Streetcar Named Desire
Thomas Crown Affair
La Vie Revee des Anges
The French Connection
An Affair To Remember
Something’s Gotta Give
Rear Window
Penny Serenade
21
Persona
8 1/2
Zorba The Greek
Don’t Look Twice
Once Upon A Time In America
Witness
Election
Storytelling
Top Hat
Cleo de 5 a 7
Rushmore
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medieval
beowulf
chaucer: troilus and criseyde, canterbury tales
sir gawain and the green knight
l angland: piers plowman. (B text)
the croxton play of the sacrament, everyman, the york creation, crucifixion, harrowing of hell, last judgement.
julian of norwich: a revelation of divine love
renaissance
wyatt: poems
spenser: faerie queene
sidney: astrophil and stella
marlowe: jew of malta
shakespeare: richard 3
winter�s tale
(R) merchant of venice
a&c
hamlet
as you like it
venus and adonis
herbert: the temple
donne: songs and sonnets
marvell: poems
milton: paradise lost , samson agonistes
jonson: poems, the alchemist
up to 1790
dryden: all for love
pope: dunciad
wycherley: country wife
swift: poems
richardson: pamela
sterne: tristram shandy
defoe: roxana
johnson: vanity of human wishes, life of savage
gray: elegy.
to 1900
blake: marriage of heaven and hell
wordsworth: prelude 1805 version, preface to lyrical ballads
byron: manfred
coleridge: biographia literaria (selected chapters)
keats: odes, letters
austen: sense
eliot: mill on the floss
dickens: our mutual friend
c bronte: villette
tennyson: poems
browning: poems
hopkins: poems
wilde: importance of being earnest
british and world lit since 1900
hardy: return of native
conrad: secret agent
yeats: poems
joyce: portrait of the artist
shaw: pygmalion
lawrence: women in love
t.s. eliot: poems
auden: poems
woolf: the waves
beckett: krapp’s last tape
coetzee: disgrace
rushdie: east west
ishiguro: artist of the floating world
stoppard: travesties
churchill: cloud nine
american lit to 1900
bradstreet: poems
franklin: autobiography
emerson: essays
thoreau: walden
hawthorne: the marble faun
whitman: poems
melville: moby dick
douglass: narrative of the life of frederick douglass
dickinson: poems
since 1900
james: the ambassadors
faulkner: as i lay dying
stein: tender buttons
wharton: house of mirth
pound: pisan cantos
frost: poems
stevens: poems
hemingway: short stories
bishop: poems
plath: poems
wright: native son
o’neill: iceman cometh
pynchon: crying of lot 49
merrill: book of ephraim
kushner: angels in america
plato: ion, the republic bk x.
aristotle: poetics
dante: epistle to can grande
sidney: defense of poesy
dryden: of dramatic poesie
fielding: preface to joseph andrewes
burke: philosophical inquiry into our ideas on the sublime and beautiful
johnson: preface to shakespeare, life of savave
wordsworth: preface to lyrical ballads
coleridge: biographia literaria
arnold: the function of criticism
eliot: metaphysical poets, tradition and indiv talent
raymond williams: keywords
freud: civilisation and its discontents, “the uncanny” & “narcissism”
benjamin: work of art in an age of mechanical reproduction
barthes: reality effect
butler: gender trouble.
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What I’ve read
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Missing:
Stardust
Sandman comics
Amelie
Dogville