The DOC Movie and Book List
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Movies:
The Maltese Falcon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Night of the Hunter
Chinatown
Key Largo
Rebecca
The Philadelphia Story
Casablanca
Arsenic and Old Lace
Holiday Inn
Drama:
Empire of the Sun
Fearless
Glory (saw this in high school)
Secrets and Lies
Pride and Prejudice (loved this!)
Persuasion
Lost in Translation (one of my favorite movies)
Hope Floats
The Cure
The Red Violin
Dead Poets Society
Mr. Holland’s Opus (great movie, was filmed in Portland!)
Waitress
The Departed
The Story of Us
Million Dollar Baby (really sad, but so good)
All of the Bourne movies (haven’t seen these yet, I know, I’m terrible)
Braveheart
The Prestige
Crash (so amazing!)
Saving Private Ryan
Reign Over Me
We are Marshall
The Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting (one of the first R rated movies I saw and the director is from Portland)
GI Jane
Meet Joe Black
Legends of the Fall
Comedy:
Joe Vs. the Volcano
The Princess Bride (seen this a million times and still love it!)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Back to the Future
Shaun of the Dead (saw the sequel Hot Fuzz - hilarious!)
Cold Comfort Farm
Superbad
10 Things I Hate About You (one of the best teen comedies)
Can’t Hardly Wait (cute, but not as good)
Vegas Vacation
Young Frankenstein (it’s Mel Brooks, c’mon, it’s awesome)
Sixteen Candles
Miss Congeniality (Sandra Bullock is so cute)
Necessary Roughness
What a Girl Wants (I love Amanda Bynes and boys with British accents)
The Blues Brothers
Big Daddy (I saw this at camp in high school. It’s typical Adam Sandler)
The Replacements
Overboard
My Cousin Vinny
The Waterboy
Bruce Almighty
Indian Summer
When Harry Met Sally (I haven’t seen this. I know, I’m going to hell)
Little Miss Sunshine (I laughed SO HARD)
Empire Records
High Fidelity (I saw this with the boy I liked in college - only good thing out of the relationship)
Half Nelson
Say Anything
Stranger Than Fiction (not typical Will Ferrell, which was very refreshing. And Maggie Gyllenhaal rocks)
Foreign:
Red/Blue/White (trilogy)
Raise the Red Lantern
Dear Frankie
Monsoon Wedding
Amelie (just saw this - yay!)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Once
The Commitments
Volver
Adventure:
Indiana Jones: the Last Crusades
Congo
Hoosiers
Twister
Historic:
Henry V
Much Ado About Nothing (really liked this)
Books:
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Distant Fires by Scott Anderson
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein
anything by Toni Morrison (this link goes to Beloved, but the only book of hers I’ve read is The Bluest Eye)
A Fat Girl’s Guide to Life by Wendy Shanker
anything by David Sedaris (this link goes to Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, which is the only book of his I’ve read - it’s really funny)
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (loved this!)
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
anything by John Irving (the link goes A Prayer for Owen Meany - it was okay, kind of melodramtic)
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (saw the movie, very good!)
Life of Pi by Yan Martel (GREAT book, one of my favorites)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith (I read another one, Sunday Philosophy Club, very good)
A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindberg
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (read this in high school - it was great, duh)
The Professor And The Madman by Simon Winchester
Eats, Shoots And Leaves bye Lynne Truss (I own this… haven’t read it… I fail)
His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman
The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy (don’t laugh. I love her — comment from Julia)
The Shellseekers by Rosemund Pilcher
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Autobiography Of Henry VIII by Margaret George
Maia by Richard Adams
The Last Convertible by Anton Myrer
The Crimson Petal And The White by Michel Faber
Laura by Vera Caspery
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Complications by Atul Gawande
Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (I have read a few other books of his, but I haven’t read this particular one)
Demian by Herman Hess
Dubliners by James Joyce (I read A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and HATED it, not sure about this one…)
So cool! I am printing it now.
Thank you!
Having just finished my copy, I must recommend adding “Schuyler’s Monster” to the book list. It’s a great read and the Rob is one of our own!
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