Lists of Favorites
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101 Favorite Albums
- After the Gold Rush — Neil Young 1970
- Against the Wind — Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band 1980
- Aja — Steely Dan 1977
- Almost Famous Soundtrack — Various 2000
- America — America 1971
- Another Grey Area — Graham Parker 1982
- As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls — Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays 1981
- At Crooked Lake — Crazy Horse 1972
- At Fillmore East — The Allman Brothers Band 1971
- AWB — The Average White Band 1974
- Back in Black — AC/DC 1980
- Back to Black — Amy Winehouse 2006
- Big Horizon — David Wilcox 1992
- Blood Pressures — The Kills 2011
- Bonnie Raitt — Bonnie Raitt 1971
- Book of Dreams – The Steve Miller Band 1977
- Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen 1975
- Buffalo Springfield — Buffalo Springfield 1966
- Celebrity Skin — Hole 1998
- Cheap Trick at Budokan — Cheap Trick 1979
- Combat Rock — The Clash 1982
- Comes a Time — Neil Young 1978
- Core — Stone Temple Pilots 1992
- Crazy Horse — Crazy Horse 1971
- Damn the Torpedoes — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1979
- Decade Of Rock & Roll — REO Speedwagon 1980
- Dig Down Deep — Jana Alayra 1996
- Dirt Silver & Gold — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1976
- Diver Down — Van Halen 1982
- Downward Spiral — Nine Inch Nails 1994
- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere — Neil Young and Crazy Horse 1969
- Fanmail — TLC 1999
- Farewell to the First Golden Era — The Mamas and the Papas 1967
- Fire — Ohio Players 1974
- For Everyman — Jackson Browne 1973
- Gasoline Alley — Rod Stewart 1970
- Greetings from Timbuk3 — Timbuk3 1986
- Hair of the Dog — Nazareth 1975
- Hang On for Your Life — Shooting Star 1981
- Harder … Faster — April Wine 1979
- Head East — Head East 1978
- Heart Food — Judee Sill 1973
- Hermit of Mink Hollow — Todd Rundgren 1978
- Hotel California — Eagles 1976
- Is This It? — The Strokes 2000
- Jackson Browne — Jackson Browne 1972
- Jesus Christ Superstar — Original Broadway Cast 1970
- Jonathan Edwards — Jonathan Edwards 1971
- Karla Bonoff — Karla Bonoff 1977
- L.A. Woman — The Doors 1971
- Lady in Satin — Billie Holiday 1958
- Late for the Sky — Jackson Browne 1974
- Led Zeppelin II — Led Zeppelin 1969
- Leftoverature — Kansas 1976
- Let it Bleed — The Rolling Stones 1969
- London Calling — The Clash 1979
- Machine Head — Deep Purple 1972
- Mama Let Him Play — Doucette 1977
- Mole City — Quasi 2013
- Mondo Bongo — The Boomtown Rats 1981
- Muswell Hillbillies — The Kinks 1972
- Nevermind — Nirvana 1991
- New Riders — New Riders of the Purple Sage 1976
- Nothing’s Shocking — Jane’s Addiction 1988
- O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack — Various 2000
- Phoebe Snow — Phoebe Snow 1974
- Pretenders — The Pretenders 1980
- Parade — Prince 1986
- Quadrophenia — The Who 1973
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars — David Bowie 1972
- Rocks — Aerosmith 1976
- S.R.O. — Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass 1966
- Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead — The Grateful Dead 1974
- Smell the Color 9 — Chris Rice 2002
- Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley — Robert Palmer 1974
- Some Girls — The Rolling Stones 1978
- Songs in the Key of Life — Stevie Wonder 1976
- Speaking in Tongues — Talking Heads 1983
- Squeezing Out Sparks — Graham Parker 1979
- Sticky Fingers — The Rolling Stones 1971
- Stranger Than Fiction Soundtrack — Various 2006
- Surfer Rosa — The Pixies 1988
- Tailspin Headwhack — Chris Duarte 1997
- Taking Liberties — Elvis Costello and the Attractions 1980
- That’s the Way of the World — Earth Wind & Fire 1975
- The Age of Aquarius — The 5th Dimension 1969
- The Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd 1973
- The River — Bruce Springsteen 1980
- The Unforgettable Fire — U2 1984
- Three Dog Night — Three Dog Night 1968
- Time Fades Away — Neil Young 1973
- Time Out — The Dave Brubeck Quartet 1959
- Toys in the Attic — Aerosmith 1975
- Voices in Modern — The Four Freshmen 1955
- Waiting for Columbus — Little Feat 1978
- Wild Planet — The B-52’s 1980
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2001
- #1 Record Radio City — Big Star 1974
- 1984 — Van Halen 1984
- 4 — Foreigner 1981
- 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti — Various 1973
101 Favorite Books
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Alas Babylon – Pat Frank
- All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
- Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner
- Anthem – Ayn Rand
- Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
- Blue Shoe – Anne Lamott
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- The Boxcar Children – Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
- Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
- Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- The Cracker Factory – Joyce Rebeta-Burditt
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
- The Death of Bees – Lisa O’Donnell
- Deliverance – James Dickey
- Diary of a Mad Housewife – Sue Kaufman
- Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
- The Emperor of Ocean Park – Stephen L. Carter
- Empire Falls – Richard Russo
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions – Edwin A. Abbott
- Forever – Judy Blume
- Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Santini – Pat Conroy
- The Green Mile – Stephen King
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- Hold Tight – Harlan Coben
- The Hours – Michael Cunningham
- House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
- If Rock and Roll Were a Machine – Terry Davis
- Imperfect Birds – Anne Lamott
- Ironweed – William Kennedy
- Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
- The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
- Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
- Leaving Home – Garrison Keillor
- Little Children – Tom Perrotta
- Lord of the Flies – William Goldman
- The Lost Weekend – Charles Jackson
- A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
- The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Missing – Karin Alvtegen
- My Ántonia – Willa Cather
- Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
- North Dallas Forty – Peter Gent
- On the Beach – Nevil Shute
- One Day – David Nicholls
- Ordinary People – Judith Guest
- Paper Moon – Joe David Brown
- A Patchwork Planet – Anne Tyler
- Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
- The Pigman – Paul Zindel
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- Presumed Innocent – Scott Turow
- The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maugham
- Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Semi-Tough – Dan Jenkins
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
- Ship of Fools – Katherine Anne Porter
- Short – Cortright McMeel
- Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
- A Simple Plan – Scott B. Smith
- Sole Survivor – Dean Koontz
- Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
- The Stand – Stephen King
- Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
- The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
- The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
- Stones from the River – Ursula Hegi
- Thank You for Smoking – Christopher Buckley
- That Was Then This is Now – S. E. Hinton
- A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Trespass – Fletcher Knebel
- True Grit – Charles Portis
- We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
- Wifey – Judy Blume
- The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
- Winter’s Bone – Daniel Woodrell
- The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
- The World According to Garp – John Irving
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
101 Favorite Movies
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Airplane
- Aliens
- Almost Famous
- American Graffitti
- Animal House
- Annie Hall
- Apollo 13
- The Big Lebowski
- Blazing Saddles
- Blood Simple
- Bull Durham
- Caddyshack
- Casablanca
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Commitments
- Contact
- Dazed and Confused
- The Descendants
- Dodgeball
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Dumbo
- Ed Wood
- The Emperor’s New Groove
- Fail Safe
- A Few Good Men
- Fight Club
- Galaxy Quest
- Get Out
- The Godfather
- Goodfellas
- Grease
- Groundhog Day
- Half Nelson
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- The Incredibles
- Independence Day
- Iron Man
- It Happened One Night
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Jacob’s Ladder
- Jaws
- Jurassic Park
- A Knight’s Tale
- LA Confidential
- Last of the Mohicans
- Lords of Dogtown
- Lost in Translation
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Marty
- The Matador
- The Matrix
- Meatballs
- Memento
- Midnight Run
- Monsters Inc.
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Mulan
- My Favorite Year
- Mystery Men
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
- The Philadelphia Story
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
- Pleasantville
- Poltergeist
- Princess Bride
- Pulp Fiction
- Rachel Getting Married
- Radio Days
- Raising Arizona
- The Right Stuff
- Rocky
- Rosemary’s Baby
- School of Rock
- Sense and Sensibility
- Series 7
- Shakespeare in Love
- The Shootist
- Signs
- Sixteen Candles
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Social Network
- Stagecoach
- Stand by Me
- Star Trek (2009)
- The Sting
- The Straight Story
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Swimming to Cambodia
- Tangled
- Titanic
- Tombstone
- Toy Story 2
- Toy Story 3
- Training Day
- True Grit (2010)
- Up
- Wedding Crashers
- The Wizard of Oz