The Lists: Books and Stuff

Books:
(alphabetical by author, favorites in italics)
1. Andre Bazin, What Is Cinema, vols. 1 and 2

2. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle

3. On the History of Film Style, by David Bordwell

(David's book was one of those cases of the right book at the right time, just when I was really starting to think about staging and about what goes on within the frame within a shot, as opposed to focusing primarily on how two shots interact. Helped me think about the basic elements of cinema beneath the level of the shot.)
4. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradury
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
6. Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
7. The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon
9. Roger Ebert's 1994 Video Companion, by Roger Ebert

(Read Ebert's guide cover to cover, back in the day when I was starting to watch film seriously. Introduced me to a lot of good films.)
10. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
11. The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson
12. The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
13. Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
14. The Stand, by Stephen King
15. Something Like an Autobiography, by Akira Kurosawa.
16. Orsinian Tales, by Ursula K. Le Guin
17. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
18. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
19. A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
20. Unquenchable Fire, by Rachel Pollack
21. The Films of Akira Kurosawa, by Donald Richie
22. Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
23. The Varieties of Scientific Experience, by Carl Sagan
24. Whipping Girl, by Julia Serano
25. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
26. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
27. The Testosterone Files, by Max Wolf Valerio


Short Stories and Novellas:
(alphabetical by author, favorites in italics)
1. "The Night Wire," by H.F. Arnold
2. "The Children of Time," by Stephen Baxter
3. "Last Contact," by Stephen Baxter
4. "The Nine Billion Names of God," by Arthur C. Clarke
5. "The Star," by Arthur C. Clarke
6. "The Clapping Hands of God," by Michael Flynn
7. "The Flints of Memory Lane," by Neil Gaiman
8. "The Problem of Susan," by Neil Gaiman
9. "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar," by Neil Gaiman
10. "Seven Types of Ambiguity," by Shirely Jackson
11. "The Daemon Lover," by Shirley Jackson
12. "Trial By Combat," by Shirley Jackson
13. "My Life with R.H. Macy," by Shirley Jackson
14. "The Mist," by Stephen King
15. "The Fountains," by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. "The Barrow," by Ursula K. Le Guin
17. "A Week in the Country," by Ursula K. Le Guin
18. "At the Mountains of Madness," by H.P. Lovecraft
19. "Planet of the Amazon Women," by David Moles
20. "Glacier," by Kim Stanley Robinson
21. "The Open Window," by Saki (H.H. Munro)
22. "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever," by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
23. "The Man Who Walked Home," by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
24. "Slow Music," by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
25. "The Nightingale and the Rose," by Oscar Wilde


Poems:
(alphabetical by author, favorites in italics)
1. "Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone," by W.H. Auden
2. "Nocturne," by W.H. Auden
3. "I Am in Need of Music," by Elizabeth Bishop
4. "You're Welcome, Willie Stewart," by Robert Burns
5. "Ae Fond Kiss," by Robert Burns
6. "Anna, Thy Charms," by Robert Burns
7. "Come, Let Me Take Thee to My Breast," by Robert Burns
8. "Green Grow the Rashes," by Robert Burns
9. "The Winter It Is Past," by Robert Burns
10. "A Red, Red, Rose," by Robert Burns
11. "So, We'll No More Go A Roving," by Lord Byron
12. "The Horses," by Edwin Muir
13. "Comment," by Dorothy Parker
14. "The Character of Love as a Search for the Lost," by Kenneth Patchen


It occurs to me I might need to get back to reading more literature. Or something.