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Decisions, decisions, decisions…
I have over fifty books sitting in my bedroom calling out to me to read them. I can’t visit bookshops without buying five or six each time and I maintain a list of books and films I have seen reviewed that I want to read or watch. My point is that I am sitting here wondering what to do with the next 90 minutes – should I finish some work, watch a DVD, or go to bed and read. Information overload!
I think I’d better get reading!
Here is my list of books and films, many of which I have read or watched, but the “strikethrough” I use on the Word document on my Mac doesn’t show up on the post. Most of this stuff was worth reading or watching. Email for any recommendations!
36 (Film)
A Clear Calling – David Austin
A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
A Round-Heeled Woman – Jane Juska
A Very Long Engagement (Film)
About the Author – John Colapinto
American Gangster (Film)
American Scream – (Bill Hicks Bio)
An Underworld at War – Donald Thomas
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Bag Men – Mark Costello
Big If – Mark Costello
Big Snow – David Park
Billy Ruffian – David Cordingley
Brick (Film)
Capote (Film)
Carnival – Robert Antoni
Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
Chaos Theory (Film)
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Chronos (Film)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cold Spring Harbor – Richard Yates
Cozy – Parnell Hall
Cutter’s Way (Film)
Dark Voyage – Alan Furst
Days Of Heaven (Film)
Deal (Film)
Delay – Tim Krabbe
Don’t Touch The Axe (Film)
Drive On! – LJK Setright
East of Nowhere – Robert Chalmers
Finding Amanda (Film)
Flight to Arras – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Gerry (Film)
Ghost Riders – Richard Grant
Hard Candy (Film)
Hidden (Film)
I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
In Praise of Slow – Carl Honore
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Junebug (Film)
L’Eclisse (Film)
Lying Liars and the Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
Mailman – Robert J Lennon
Manderley (Film)
Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil – John Berendt
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth – Giles Foden
Missing Kissinger – Etgar Keret
Mister Candid – Julian Hardy
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time – Liz Jensen
Narc (Film)
Night Dogs – Kent Anderson
Night Flight – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Noise (Film)
North Soho 999 – Virginia Ironside
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
Original Bliss – AL Kennedy
Owning Mahowney (Film)
Pandora in the Congo – Sanchez Pinol
Paradise Now (Film)
Petites Couperes (Film)
Playing Politics With Terrorism – George Kassimeris
Pollock (Film)
River of Time – Jon Swain
Romance & Cigarettes (Film)
Roscoe – William Kennedy
S.O.P. (Film)
Seven-Tenths – James Hamilton-Paterson
Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
Shooter (Film)
Smart People (Film)
So Many Ways To Begin – Jon McGregor
St Pancras Station – Simon Bradley
Strangers on a Train – Jenny Diski
Strayed (Film)
Street Kings (Film)
Syriana (Film)
TDY – Douglas Valentine
Tell No One (Film)
Tennis Whites and Teacakes – John Betjeman
The Age of the Warrior – Robert Fisk
The Analyst – John Katzenbach
The Bear Boy – Cynthia Ozick
The Bedford Boys – Alex Kershaw
The Black Book – Orhan Pamuk
The Blood of Victory – Alan Furst
The Boys from Brazil (Film)
The Cheek Perforation Dance – Sean Thomas
The Clearing – Tim Gautreaux
The Coast of Good Intentions – Michael Byers
The Cretan Runner – Psychoundakis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
The Devil’s Backbone (Film)
The Easter Parade – Richard Yates
The End of Alice – A M Homes
The False Start – Sebastian Japrisot
The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets – Sophie Hannah
The Gate – Francois Bizot
The Good Girl (Film)
The Havana Room – Colin Patterson
The Highest Tide – Jim Lynch
The Iillusionist (Film)
The Job – Irene Dische
The Kingdom (Film)
The Kite Runner (Film)
The Last Mistress (Film)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Film)
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
The Lost Luggage Porter – Andrew Martin
The Man in The Basement – Walter Mosley
The Matador (Film)
The Minotaur Takes a Smoke Break – Steven Sherrill
The Motel Life – Willy Vlautin
The Necropolis Railway – Andrew Martin
The Office of Innocence – Thomas Keneally
The Painted Veil (Film)
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
The Proposition (Film)
The Quiet American – 1957 (Film)
The Rules of Attraction (Film)
The Secret Life Of Trees – Colin Tudge
The Squid and The Whale (Film)
The Straw Men – Michael Marshall
The Table (Film)
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The Tracey Fragments (Film)
The Wackness (Film)
Their Darkest Hour – Laurence Rees
Them: Adventures with Extremists – Jon Ronson
Then She Found Me (Film)
Thug – Mike Dash
Tokyo – Mo Hayder
Tommy – Richard Holmes
Tomorrow – Graham Swift
Train – Pete Dexter
Up at the Villa (Film)
Vendredi Soir (Film)
Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
Visits From The Drowned Girl – Steven Sherrill
Waiting Period – Hubert Selby Jr
War in Val d’Orica – Iris Origo
Watchmen – Alan Moore
What a Carve Up – Jonathan Coe
What Was Lost – Catherine O’Flynn
Wish I Was Here – Jackie Kay
Y Tu Mama Tambien (DVD)
You got nothing coming – Jim Lerner
Zugzwang – Ronan Bennett
