An Exhaustive List

My dear friend Allen is a bibliophile of the nth degree, having created and read an expansive list of literature, graphic novels and non-fiction. Knowing my book quest well, he has not only presented me with many a title, but also here, an exhaustive list of his recommendations. Enjoy.

# My Sister's Keeper
# Lucky
# Love is a Mix Tape
# 19 Minutes
# Songs without Words
# The Monster of Florence: A True Story
# The House of Sand and Fog
# The Garden of Last Days
# America, America
# 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy
# Complete Short Stories of Truman Capote
# In Cold Blood
# Breakfast at Tiffany's
# Other Rooms, Other Voices
# Out of Africa --
# read the book; then watch the movie Mystic River --
# read the book; then watch the movie High Fidelity --
# read the book; then watch the movie The Myth of You and Me
# Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West
# The Border Trilogy ---- All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities on the Plain
# The Road
# -- read the book; then watch the movie this fall A River Runs Through It -- read the novella; then watch the movie (but only maybe)
# Shopgirl -- NEVER see the movie
# Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
# Blankets
# “Brokeback Mountain” -- short story = way better than the movie
# Saturday
# Amsterdam
# Redemption Falls
# The Lost
# Wonderful Tonight
# Tree of Smoke
# I Love you, Beth Cooper
# Wish You Were Here
# Night Country
# Snow Angels
# 100 Sonnets
# by Pablo Neruda Here is New York
# Complete Poems of James Dickey
# Deliverance
# To the White Sea
# Fun Home
# Summer Blonde
# Shortcomings
# Everything is Illuminated
# 25th Hour
# City of Thieves
# Snuff
# Choke
# Fight Club
# If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
# Going After Cacciato
# The Things They Carried
# In the Lake of the Woods
# Arcadia
# Maus I + II
# Wonder Boys
# Bridge of Sighs
# One Foot in Eden
# Saints at the River
# The World Made Straight
# Before I Die
# Reservation Road
# In the Wild
# From Hell
# -- read the comic book; then watch the movie Ghost World -- read the comic book; then watch the movie
# The Drowned and the Saved
# Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account
# The Grey Zone: Director’s Notes
# and Screenplay The Grey Zone -- watch the movie
# Judenhass
# “Million Dollar Baby” -- read short story; then watch the movie (again?)
# God Loves, Man Kills
# Gone, Baby, Gone -- read the book; then watch the movie
# Survival in Auschwitz
# The Reawakening
# Flags of Our Fathers --
# read the book; then watch the movie So Sad to Fall -- read and then watch Letters from Iwo Jima
# Unbearable Lightness of Being -- read the book; then watch the movie
# The English Patient -- read the book; then watch the movie
# We are on Our Own
# Life of
# Pi Rape of Nanking
# In Harm's Way
# A Rumor of War
# Shoeless Joe
# With the Old Breed: The Marines at Peleliu and Okinawa
# Friday Night Lights
# Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
# Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
# Understanding Comics
# Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form
# Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
# March
# The March
# Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death & Politics
# Prep: A Novel
# The Man of My Dreams: A Novel
# Little Children
# Election
# The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
# In Country
# Then We Came to the End: A Novel
# The Book of Other People
# About a Boy
# -- read the book; then watch the movie Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
# 400 Photos
by Ansel Adams

Preface

I love to read. The problem is libraries offer too many selections, same as bookstores. This means I've depended heavily on the experience of others to place some of the best reading material in my hands.

Know that "bucket list" idea? That's how I feel about books. Fill my bucket with some reads. Literature, poetry, non-fiction, blogs, news articles, op-eds, fiction, short stories, plays--I dine on them with a palette that is insatiable.

As I complete a selection I will post thoughts so you can fill your own bibliophile bucket with books.