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Personal Favorites and Recommendations


Reading

Jeanette Winterson Passion
Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony
Toni Morrison Beloved
Kathleen Norris Dakota
Kate Chopin The Awakening
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Richard Adams Watership Down
Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Albert Camus The Stranger and The Plague
Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverburg The Positronic Man
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Par Lagerkvist The Dwarf
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Vladimir Nabokav Lolita
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Voltaire Candide
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
Alan Lightman Einstein's Dreams
Elie Wiesel Night
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search For Meaning
Herman Hesse Siddhartha
Richard Bach Illusions
Stephen Mitchell, ed. The Enlightened Mind and The Enlightened Heart
Lao-tzu (Stephen Mitchell, trans.) Tao Te Ching



Music

Tori Amos Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink
Brenda Khan Epiphany in Brooklyn
Indigo Girls Rite of Passage (and others)
Morcheeba Who Can You Trust?
Tracy Chapman self-titled, Crossroads and New Beginning
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
Loreena McKennitt The Visit
Enya Watermark and Shephard Moon

Dead Can Dance A Passage In Time
Enigma MCMXCaD and The Cross of Changes

Peter Gabriel Passion
Various artists Passion- Sources
The Klezmatics Rhythm + Jews
Robbie Robertson and the Red Road Ensemble Music for The Native Americans

Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home,The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, (many others!)
Tom Waits Raindogs
Pink Floyd The Wall
The Beatles White Album, Abbey Road, (many others!)
Neil Young Harvest and Unplugged

The Persuasions Street Corner Symphony
Bob Marley and the Wailers Legend
UB40 Labour of Love
Guru Jazzmatazz Volume: 1
Ellis Davis, Musical Director The Bunk Project
Squirrel Nut Zippers Hot
Various artists The Great Tomato Blues Package
Various artists Strike A Deep Chord, Blues Guitars For the Homeless
B. B. King, Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton Live At Newport
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood

Paul Simon Graceland
Ladysmith Black Mumbazo Journey of Dreams
Brent Lewis The Primitive Truth
Savage Aural Hotbed Cold Is the Absence of Heat

Pearl Jam Ten
U2 The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum
R.E.M. Out of Time and Automatic for the People
The Pixies Trompe le Monde
The Cure Disintegration
Violent Femmes Add It Up (1981-1993)
Bauhaus Burning From the Inside
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Depeche Mode Violator
They Might Be Giants Apollo 18

Soundtracks
The Crow
Philadelphia
Dead Man Walking
Singles
Wayne's World
Reality Bites
Aladdin
Classical

Holst The Planets
George Winston December
Bobby McFerrin Paper Music
Julian Bream Sonata (Paganini, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Jose)
Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy *Still deciding on favorites*
Orff Carmina Burana
Michael Crawford The Phantom of the Opera

Great Music: Buy the "Greatest Hits"?
AC/DC
Pat Benatar
Blondie
Johnny Cash
Eric Clapton
Patsy Cline
The Doors
The Eagles
Crystal Gayle
Elton John
Journey
Led Zeppelin
Madonna
Metallica
The Police
Prince
Simon and Garfunkel
Santana



Movies

Wings of Desire
Delicatessan
City of Lost Children
The Pillow Book
Brother of Sleep
The Piano
Tito the Hero
Reuben and Ed
Benny and Joon
Dead Poets Society
The Fisher King
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler's List
Philadelphia
Reservoir Dogs

Time Bandits
Brazil
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Terry Gillam

Miller's Crossing
Raising Arizona
Barton Fink
Hudsucker Proxy
Coen Bros.

Husbands and Wives
Annie Hall
Woody Allen


Home-Range

Perspectives on International Relocation



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