the results of an informal facebook poll, taken 7 october 2016:
hey facebook. tell me 1) a book i should read, 2) a movie i should watch, 3) a poem i should memorize.
- Confederacy of Dunces
- Beloved
- The Emperor of All Maladies
- Debt: The First 5000 Years (David Graeber)
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes)
- The Book of Unknown Americans
- Three Body Trilogy
- Bluets (Maggie Nelson)
- Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
- Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
- Alan Turing: The Enigma (Andrew Hodges)
- The Neapolitan Novels (Elena Ferrante)
- Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
- The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt)
- Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
- Einstein's Dreams (Lightman)
- All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
- Born to Run
- Crazy Like Us
- A Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace)
- This Book Will Save Your Life (A.M. Homes)
- Collapse (Jared Diamond)
- Steinbeck: his life in letters
- The Invention of Nature (Wulf)
- The City & The City
- 10:04 (Ben Lerner)
- 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Memento
- Paycheck
- Minority Report
- City of Gold
- What We Do in the Shadows
- El Topo (Jodorowsky)
- Death at a Funeral
- Philadelphia Story
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Notorious
- El Abrazo del Serpiente
- Best in Show
- The Vanishing
- Song of the Sea
- Shadowlands
- Wadjda
- Stony Island
- Like Someone In Love
- Liebeslied (Rilke)
- The Last of His Line (Rilke)
- One Art (Bishop)
- since feeling is first (e.e. cummings)
- Play (A.R. Ammons)
- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (Emily Dickinson)
- Travel (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Jabberwocky
- Kubla Khan (Coleridge)
- Wild Geese (Mary Oliver)
- Los Nadies (Galeano)
- This is Just to Say (William Carlos Williams)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot)
- A Monster Owl (Lorine Niedecker)
- Alexander Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
- Definitions of Poetry (Carl Sandburg)
- A Blessing (James Wright)
- The Wild Party
- My Heart Always Goes Back to the North (MacDiarmid)