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Books I Love

My ALLLL time faves

  • As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  • A Story Like the Wind, Laurens van der Post
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

More Faves

  • EVERYTHING that Toni Morrison has written
  • To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
  • Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
  • ▪ Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
  • ▪ A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
  • ▪ The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
  • ▪ Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
  • ▪ Yesterday’s Weather, Anne Enright
  • ▪ Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
  • ▪ The Tender Bar, J. R. Moehringer
  • ▪ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • ▪ Great House, Nicole Krauss

Favorite Movies

  • Fanny and Alexander, directed by Ingmar Bergman
  • Life of Brian, Monty Python. Need I say more?
  • Run Lola Run, A German thriller film
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel, with Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe, to name a few
  • The Big Lebowski. Need I say more?
  • Mulholland Drive, directed by David Lynch
  • Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino
  • Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch
  • Passing Strange, the film adaptation of the Broadway play about Stew, directed my Spike Lee
  • Borat, starring Sacha Baron Cohen
  • No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.
  • Three Colors: Blue; Three Colors: White; Three Colors: Red. A French-Polish metaphorical trilogy about the French Republic.
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, a beautifully filmed Korean movie set on a tree-lined lake where a Buddhist monastery floats on a raft.

Great movies if you want to learn more about German, Berlin, and a few about Russia

  • A Woman in Berlin, A German film based on the anonymous memoir of a woman who survived the Russian invasion of Berlin—barely.
  • Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg, A Swedish film about Raoul Wallenberg.
  • Cabaret, starring Liza Minelli and Michael York about life in Berlin just prior to WWII.
  • Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, A German-made film about a university student who was sentenced to death for her a participation in the resistance group in Munich called the “White Rose.”
  • The Bunker, A Time-Life movie made for TV starring Anthony Hopkins about Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker.
  • Downfall, A German-made film about the final ten days of Hitler’s life.
  • The Lives of Others, An eye opening film about the Stazi in East Berlin in the year 1984.
  • Lore, As the Allies sweep across Eastern Europe at the end of WWII, five siblings flee for their lives.
  • Aimee and Jaguar, a love story set in Berlin during WWII.
  • Dersu Uzala, A Japanese film about the Russian Far-East Wilderness. A Golden Prize Winner for best foreign film, 1975.
  • Dr. Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, this film has some great scenes of the Siberian wilderness.
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