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