917/774 to go
I've read 84 of 1001 books to read before you die. Not that impressive, though not awful.
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Atonement – Ian McEwan
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Contact – Carl Sagan
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Shining – Stephen King
Sula – Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Magus – John Fowles
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
nvisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Passing – Nella Larsen
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
Candide – Voltaire
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
Metamorphoses – Ovid
216 of 1001 movies. Better, though not great. Both lists via kottke. I'm about even on the movies with kottke, though I kick his butt with the fiction.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Metropolis (1927)
An Andalusian Dog (1928)
Blackmail (1929)
Frankenstein (1931)
City Lights (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Cat People (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Psycho (1960)
La Jetee (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Birds (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Graduate (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
M*A*S*H (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
The Sting (1973)
Badlands (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
Sleeper (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Carrie (1976)
Network (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Suspiria (1977)
Grease (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Alien (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Jerk (1979)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Mad Max (1979)
The Shining (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Airplane! (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981)
E.T.: The Extra-Terestrial (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Evil Dead (1982)
Diner (1982)
A Christmas Story (1983)
El Norte (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Come and See (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Manhunter (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
A Room with a View (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Bull Durham (1988)
Akira (1988)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Big (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Batman (1989)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Roger & Me (1989)
Glory (1989)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Say Anything (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Philadelphia (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Clerks (1994)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
The Lion King (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Crumb (1994)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Babe (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Braveheart (1995)
Clueless (1995)
Seven (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Fargo (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Secrets and Lies (1996)
The English Patient (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Scream (1996)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Buffalo 66 (1998)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Rushmore (1998)
Pi (1998)
Happiness (1998)
Ring (1998)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
All About My Mother (1999)
Three Kings (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Amores Perros (2000)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Memento (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Amelie (2001)
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Atonement – Ian McEwan
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Contact – Carl Sagan
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Shining – Stephen King
Sula – Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Magus – John Fowles
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
nvisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Passing – Nella Larsen
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
Candide – Voltaire
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
Metamorphoses – Ovid
216 of 1001 movies. Better, though not great. Both lists via kottke. I'm about even on the movies with kottke, though I kick his butt with the fiction.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Metropolis (1927)
An Andalusian Dog (1928)
Blackmail (1929)
Frankenstein (1931)
City Lights (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Cat People (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Psycho (1960)
La Jetee (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Birds (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Graduate (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
M*A*S*H (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
The Sting (1973)
Badlands (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
Sleeper (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Carrie (1976)
Network (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Suspiria (1977)
Grease (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Alien (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Jerk (1979)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Mad Max (1979)
The Shining (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Airplane! (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981)
E.T.: The Extra-Terestrial (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Evil Dead (1982)
Diner (1982)
A Christmas Story (1983)
El Norte (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Come and See (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Manhunter (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
A Room with a View (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Bull Durham (1988)
Akira (1988)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Big (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Batman (1989)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Roger & Me (1989)
Glory (1989)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Say Anything (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Philadelphia (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Clerks (1994)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
The Lion King (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Crumb (1994)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Babe (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Braveheart (1995)
Clueless (1995)
Seven (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Fargo (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Secrets and Lies (1996)
The English Patient (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Scream (1996)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Buffalo 66 (1998)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Rushmore (1998)
Pi (1998)
Happiness (1998)
Ring (1998)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
All About My Mother (1999)
Three Kings (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Amores Perros (2000)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Memento (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Amelie (2001)
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
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