2017 Reading List

                      
1. M Train - Patti Smith (2015)
2. The Listening Walls - Margaret Millar (1959)
3. Selected Poems - e.e. cummings (1994)
4. Beast in View - Margaret Millar (1955)
5. Fences - August Wilson (1986)
6. Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber (1943)
7. The Yellow Mask and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins (1855)
8. The Graduate - Charles Webb (1963)
9. Point to Point Navigation - Gore Vidal (2006)
10. Marc Bolan: Born to Boogie - Chris Welch (1995)
11. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin - James Campbell (2001)
12. L.A. Noir: The City as Character - Alain Silver (2005)
13. Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir - Jim Heimann (1999)
14. Get a Good Night's Sleep - Katherine A. Albert (1999)
15. To Sir, with Love - E.R. Braithwaite (1959)
16. Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford - Donald Spoto (2010)
17. I Said Yes to Everything - Lee Grant (2014)
18. Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis - Ed Sikov (2007)
19. Jesus Out to Sea - James Lee Burke (2007)
20. Fawlty Towers - John Cleese and Connie Booth (1988)
21. How to Stay Healthy and Fit on the Road - Joanne V. Lichten (2001)
22. Finch, Bloody Finch - Elaine Dundy (1980)
23. The Lonely Girl - Edna O'Brien (1962)
24. Enchanted Night - Steven Millhauser (1999)
25. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories - Yasunari Kawabata (1953)
26. Testimony: A Memoir - Robbie Robertson (2016)
27. Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb (1937)
28. Doctor Brodie's Report - Jorge Luis Borges (1970)
29. Stay Young and Vital - Bob Cummings (1960)
30. Focus - Arthur Miller (1945)
31. A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell (1977)
32. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (1957)
33. Hotel Room - Cornell Woolrich (1958)
34. The Beguiled - Thomas Cullinan (1966)
35. Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Novel - Rumer Godden (1942)
36. Laura - Vera Caspary (1942)
37. Black Narcissus - Rumer Godden (1939)
38. Beware of the Ice and Other Poems - Penelope Rosemont (1992)
39. Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend - Graham Russell Gao Hodges (2004)
40. Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories - Charles Beaumont (2015)
41. The Lady Vanishes - Ethel Lina White (1936)
42. Glamour of the Gods: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation - Robert Dance (2008)
43. Sounds & Silences: Poetry for Now - Richard Peck (1970)
44. Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences - Pearl Bowser (2000)
45. The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories - Marge Piercy (2014)
46. Nigger Heaven - Carl Van Vechten (1926)
47. Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s - Bob Adelman (1997)
48. Forever Summer - Nigella Lawson (2002)
49. Five O'clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982 (1990)
50. Palimpsest: A Memoir - Gore Vidal (1995)
51. Room at the Top - John Braine (1957)
52. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe (1959)
53. She Who Was No More - Boileau-Narcejac (1952)
54. Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be - Simone Signoret (1975)
55. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl - Issa Rae (2015)
56. Dead of Night - Jez Conolly (2015)
57. Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game - Stoker Hunt (1985)
58. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
59. Psycho - Robert Bloch (1959)
60. Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses - R. Gary Patterson (2004)
61. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings - Jan Harold Brunvand (1981)
62. Celia Johnson: A Biography - Kate Fleming (1991)
63. The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll - Erle Stanley Gardner (1958)
64. The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Other Plays - Charles Busch (2000)
65. The Living Room - Graham Greene (1954)
66. Old Times - Harold Pinter (1971)
67. Fashion in Film - Adrienne Munich (2011)
68. Lena - James Haskins (1983)
69. My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke (2011)
70. Down Home with The Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook - Patrick Neely (2009)
71. Hardboiled Hollywood: The True Crime Stories that Inspired the Great Noir Films - Max Decharne (2003)
72. The Key - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1956)
73. Serious Simple Holidays - Diane Rossen Worthington (2007)
74. A Cat, a Man and Two Women - Jun'ichio Tanizaki (1936)
75. Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found - George William Jones (1991)
76. Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies (1947)
77. Backstory 1: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age - Pat McGilligan (1986)
78. A Pussycat's Christmas - Margaret Wise Brown (1949)
79. Recipe for Adventure: Naples! (#1) - Giada De Laurentiis (2013)
80. Recipe for Adventure: New Orleans! (#4) - Giada De Laurentiis (2014)
81. Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s - Pat McGilligan (1991)