Favorite Books Books that have influenced me, that have moved me, that I remember vividly, even years later, books I've read twice or will re-read, in no particular order. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Lolita by Nabokov Aztec by Gary Jennings The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Magus by John Fowles Love, Medicine by Lousie Erdrich The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter The White Album by Joan Didion The Shining by Stephen King Shibumi by Trevanian Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sophie's Choice by William Styron East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Fear of Flying by Erica Jong The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Red Dragon by Thomas Harris One true Thing by Anna Quindlan Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman Favorite Movies Classics Films I have loved, that have stayed with me, in no particular order Chinatown Singing in the Rain The Third Man Blazing Saddles Annie Hall West Side Story Casablanca Heaven Can Wait The Godfather Swing Time (But any Fred and Ginger will do) His Girl Friday Dr. Strangelove Rear Window A Clockwork Orange Fargo Tootsie Breaking Away My Man Godfrey Reds Election Fast Times at Ridgemont High This is Spinal Tap Silence of the Lambs Best in Show The Aristocrats Recent Faves Some guilty pleasures, others that will move to my Classics list if, over time, they still resonate, in no particular order The Wedding Singer Love, Actually The Wedding Crashers Inside Man Something's Gotta Give 40-year-old Virgin Harold and Kumar go to White Castle Sleepless in Seattle Pretty Woman The Good Shepard The Departed Babel Volver