{"id":23,"date":"2009-11-05T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/my-top-ten-lists\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:16:36","slug":"my-top-ten-lists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/home\/my-top-ten-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top Ten lists"},"content":{"rendered":"

(…ok, not always 10)<\/p>\n

Best Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Wallace, Infinite Jest <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n
  2. Mitchell, Cloud Atlas<\/em> (2004)<\/li>\n
  3. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> (1880)<\/li>\n
  4. Austen, Pride\u00a0and Prejudice<\/em> (1813)<\/li>\n
  5. Lowry, Under the Volcano <\/em>(1947)<\/li>\n
  6. Kavanagh, Gaff Topsails <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n
  7. Rushdie, Midnight’s Children <\/em>(1981)<\/li>\n
  8. Beckett, Watt<\/em> (1953)<\/li>\n
  9. Carey, Oscar\u00a0and Lucinda <\/em>(1988)<\/li>\n
  10. Eliot, Middlemarch <\/em>(1872)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Best 21st<\/sup> C Fiction\"Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Mitchell, Cloud Atlas<\/em> (2004)<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. K. Desai, The Inheritance of Loss<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n
    3. Redhill,\u00a0Martin Sloane\u00a0<\/em>(2001)<\/li>\n
    4. Powers, The Time of Our Singing <\/em>(2003)<\/li>\n
    5. Franzen, Freedom <\/span><\/em>(2010)<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. McEwan, Saturday<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n
    7. Zadie Smith, White Teeth<\/em> (2000)<\/span><\/li>\n
    8. Atwood,\u00a0Oryx & Crake\u00a0<\/em>(2003)<\/li>\n
    9. Shteyngart,\u00a0Super Sad True Love Story<\/em>\u00a0(2010)<\/li>\n
    10. Owuor, Dust<\/em> (2014)<\/li>\n
    11. Abani, Graceland <\/em>(2004)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Best 20th C Canadian Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Kavanagh, Gaff Topsails <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n
      2. Atwood, Cat’s Eye <\/em>(1988)<\/li>\n
      3. Munro, Lives of Girls\u00a0and Women <\/em>(1971)<\/li>\n
      4. Richler, St. Urbain’s Horseman<\/em> (1971)<\/li>\n
      5. Williams, The River Horsemen <\/em>(1981)<\/li>\n
      6. Hollingshead, The Healer <\/em>(1998)<\/li>\n
      7. Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n
      8. Cohen, Beautiful Losers <\/em>(1966)<\/li>\n
      9. Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here <\/em>(1989)<\/li>\n
      10. Kroetsch, What the Crow Said <\/em>(1978)<\/li>\n
      11. Shields, The Stone Diaries <\/em>(1993)<\/li>\n
      12. Vonarburg, The Maerlande Chronicles <\/em>(1992)<\/li>\n
      13. Bergen, A Year of Lesser <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Best Canadian 21st<\/sup> C Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Redhill, Martin Sloane <\/em>(2001)<\/li>\n
        2. Atwood, Oryx & Crake <\/em>(2003) <\/span><\/li>\n
        3. McAdam, A Beautiful Truth<\/em> (2013)<\/span><\/li>\n
        4. Bonert, The Lion Seeker <\/em>(2013)<\/span><\/li>\n
        5. Alexis, Fifteen Dogs<\/em> (2015)<\/li>\n
        6. Bergen, The Matter with Morris<\/em> (2010)<\/li>\n
        7. Catton, The Luminaries<\/em> (2013)<\/li>\n
        8. Cole, The Fearsome Particles <\/em>(2006)<\/li>\n
        9. MacNeil, The Dhow House<\/em> (2017)<\/li>\n
        10. Mandel, The Glass Hotel<\/em> (2020)<\/li>\n
        11. Boyagoda,\u00a0Governor of the Northern Province<\/em>\u00a0(2006)<\/li>\n
        12. Theis, If Sylvie Had Nine Lives<\/em> (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Best American Fiction, pre-2000 <\/strong><\/p>\n

            \n
          1. Wallace, Infinite Jest <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n
          2. O’Brien, Going After Cacciato <\/em>(1978)<\/li>\n
          3. Melville, Moby Dick<\/em> (1851)<\/li>\n
          4. O’Connor, Wise Blood<\/em> (1949)<\/li>\n
          5. Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson<\/em> (1894)<\/li>\n
          6. DeLillo, Underworld <\/em>(1997)<\/li>\n
          7. Cabell, The Cream of the Jest <\/em>(1917)<\/li>\n
          8. Duncan, The Brothers K <\/em>(1992)<\/li>\n
          9. Twain, Huckleberry Finn<\/em> (1884)<\/li>\n
          10. Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom<\/em> (1936)<\/li>\n
          11. Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 <\/em>(1966)<\/li>\n
          12. Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter<\/em> (1850)<\/li>\n
          13. McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses<\/em> (1992)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Best American 21st<\/sup> C Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

              \n
            1. Powers, The Time of Our Singing <\/em>(2003)<\/li>\n
            2. Franzen, Freedom <\/em>(2010)<\/span><\/li>\n
            3. Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story<\/em> (2010)\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n
            4. Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em> (2010)<\/span><\/li>\n
            5. Vollmann, Europe Central<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n
            6. Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics<\/em> (2006)<\/span><\/li>\n
            7. Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen\u2019s Union<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n
            8. Powers Generosity: an Enhancement<\/em> (2009)<\/li>\n
            9. McCarthy, The Road<\/em> (2006)<\/span><\/li>\n
            10. Franzen, The Corrections <\/em>(2001)<\/span><\/li>\n
            11. Robinson, Jack <\/em>(2020)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Best British Fiction\"Pride<\/strong><\/p>\n

                \n
              1. Mitchell, Cloud Atlas<\/em> (2004)<\/span><\/li>\n
              2. Austen, Pride & Prejudice<\/em> (1813)<\/span><\/li>\n
              3. Lowry, Under the Volcano <\/em>(1947)<\/span><\/li>\n
              4. Eliot, Middlemarch <\/em>(1871-2)<\/span><\/li>\n
              5. Beckett, Watt<\/em> (1953)<\/span><\/li>\n
              6. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend<\/em> (1864-5)<\/span><\/li>\n
              7. Hardy, Jude the Obscure <\/em>(1896)<\/span><\/li>\n
              8. Dickens, Great Expectations<\/em> (1860-61)<\/span><\/li>\n
              9. Joyce, Ulysses<\/em> (1922)<\/span><\/li>\n
              10. McEwan, Saturday<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n
              11. Zadie Smith, White Teeth<\/em> (2000)<\/span><\/li>\n
              12. Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet <\/em>(2010)<\/li>\n
              13. Dasgupta, Solo <\/em>(2009)<\/li>\n
              14. McEwan, The Children Act <\/em>(2014)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Best World Fiction <\/strong><\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> (1880)<\/li>\n
                2. Rushdie, Midnight’s Children <\/em>(1981)<\/li>\n
                3. Carey, Oscar\u00a0and Lucinda <\/em>(1988)<\/li>\n
                4. Rushdie, The Satanic Verses <\/em>(1988)<\/li>\n
                5. White, Voss <\/em>(1957)<\/li>\n
                6. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n
                7. Dostoevsky, Crime\u00a0and Punishment<\/em> (1866)<\/li>\n
                8. Lem, Solaris <\/em>(1961)<\/li>\n
                9. Narayan, The Vendor of Sweets <\/em>(1967)<\/li>\n
                10. Owuor,\u00a0Dust\u00a0<\/em>(2014)<\/li>\n
                11. Chinodya, Harvest of Thorns<\/em> (1989)<\/li>\n
                12. Mo Yan,\u00a0Frog<\/em> (2009)<\/li>\n
                13. Lem, A Perfect Vacuum<\/em> (1971)<\/li>\n
                14. Abani, Graceland <\/em>(2004)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Best SF<\/strong><\/p>\n

                    \n
                  1. Atwood, Oryx\u00a0and Crake <\/em>(2003)<\/li>\n
                  2. Lem, Solaris<\/em> (1961)<\/li>\n
                  3. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/em> (1959)<\/li>\n
                  4. Dick, The Man in the High Castle <\/em>(1962)<\/li>\n
                  5. Vonarburg,\u00a0The Maerlande Chronicles\u00a0<\/em>(1992)<\/li>\n
                  6. Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles <\/em>(1946)<\/li>\n
                  7. Herbert, Dune<\/em> (1965)<\/li>\n
                  8. Percy, Love in the Ruins <\/em>(1971)<\/li>\n
                  9. Calvino, Time and the Hunter<\/em> (1967)<\/li>\n
                  10. Wilson, Schr\u00f6dinger’s Cat <\/em>(1979)<\/li>\n
                  11. Ruff, Sewer, Gas\u00a0and Electric <\/em>(1997)<\/li>\n
                  12. Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs <\/em>(1997)<\/li>\n
                  13. Gibson, Neuromancer <\/em>(1984)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    Best Fantasy <\/strong><\/p>\n

                      \n
                    1. Rushdie, Midnight’s Children <\/em>(1981)<\/li>\n
                    2. Cabell, The Cream of the Jest <\/em>(1917)<\/li>\n
                    3. Fowles, The Magus <\/em>(1965)<\/li>\n
                    4. Clarke, Jonathan Strange\u00a0and Mr Norrell<\/em> (2004)<\/li>\n
                    5. Mitchell, Ghostwritten<\/em> (1999)<\/li>\n
                    6. Rushdie, The Satanic Verses<\/em> (1988)<\/li>\n
                    7. Borges, Labyrinths<\/em> (1956-60)<\/li>\n
                    8. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings<\/em> (1954)<\/li>\n
                    9. Fowles, A Maggot <\/em>(1985)<\/li>\n
                    10. Garner, Red Shift<\/em> (1973)<\/li>\n
                    11. Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell<\/em> (1971)<\/li>\n
                    12. Lewis, The Narnia Chronicles <\/em>(1950-56)<\/li>\n
                    13. Cabell, Jurgen<\/em> (1919)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      Best Poetry Books <\/strong><\/p>\n

                        \n
                      1. Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room <\/em>(2001)<\/li>\n
                      2. Coles, Forests of the Medieval World<\/em> (1993)<\/li>\n
                      3. McFadden, Gypsy Guitar<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n
                      4. Olds, The Gold Cell<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n
                      5. Yeats, Selected Poems <\/em>(1889-1939)<\/li>\n
                      6. Cohen, Stranger Music<\/em> (1993)<\/li>\n
                      7. Dickinson, Final Harvest <\/em>(1860s-1886)<\/li>\n
                      8. Coles, Kurgan <\/em>(2000)<\/li>\n
                      9. Sexton, The Awful Rowing Towards God <\/em>(1975)<\/li>\n
                      10. Arnold, Poems<\/em> (1853)<\/li>\n
                      11. Atwood, Selected Poems, 1966-1984<\/em> (1990)<\/li>\n
                      12. Blake, Songs of Experience<\/em> (1794)<\/li>\n
                      13. Kroetsch, Seed Catalogue<\/em> (1977)<\/li>\n
                      14. Lynes, Left Fields<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        Best Plays <\/strong><\/p>\n

                          \n
                        1. Shakespeare, King Lear<\/em> (1605)<\/li>\n
                        2. Kushner, Angels in America <\/em>(1992)<\/li>\n
                        3. Beckett, Waiting for Godot<\/em> (1954)<\/li>\n
                        4. Euripedes, The Bacchae<\/em> (406?)<\/li>\n
                        5. Shakespeare, The Tempest<\/em> (1611)<\/li>\n
                        6. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex<\/em> (430)<\/li>\n
                        7. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure <\/em>(1604)<\/li>\n
                        8. Shakespeare, The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em> (1610)<\/span><\/li>\n
                        9. Churchill, Top Girls<\/em> (1982)<\/li>\n
                        10. Cook, Jacob’s Wake<\/em> (1975)<\/li>\n
                        11. Strindberg, A Dream Play <\/em>(1902)<\/li>\n
                        12. Walker, Love and Anger<\/em> (1989)<\/li>\n
                        13. O’Neill, A Long Day’s Journey into Night<\/em> (1955)<\/li>\n
                        14. Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound <\/em>(1968)<\/li>\n
                        15. Pownall, Master Class <\/em>(1983)<\/li>\n
                        16. Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em> (1962)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          Best Canadian Plays<\/strong><\/p>\n

                            \n
                          1. Cook, Jacob\u2019s Wake<\/em> (1975)<\/li>\n
                          2. Walker, Love and Anger<\/em> (1989)<\/li>\n
                          3. MacLeod, Toronto, Mississippi<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n
                          4. Redhill, Goodness <\/em>(2005)<\/li>\n
                          5. Mighton, A Short History of Night<\/em> (1989)<\/li>\n
                          6. Rebar, Bordertown Caf\u00e9 <\/em>(1987)<\/li>\n
                          7. Tremblay, Les Belles Soeurs <\/em>(1965)<\/li>\n
                          8. French, Saltwater Moon <\/em>(1984)<\/li>\n
                          9. Ross, FareWel<\/em> (1996)<\/li>\n
                          10. Hollingsworth, Ever Loving<\/em> (1981)<\/li>\n
                          11. MacLeod,\u00a0The Valley<\/em> (2013)<\/li>\n
                          12. Lakevold, Notes Towards a Speech Re: My Ex- <\/em>(2001)<\/span><\/li>\n
                          13. Panych, Benevolence<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                            Best Short Stories <\/strong><\/p>\n

                              \n
                            1. Borges, \u201cTl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\u201d<\/li>\n
                            2. Dinesen, \u201cSorrow-Acre\u201d<\/li>\n
                            3. Barth, \u201cLost in the Funhouse\u201d<\/li>\n
                            4. Fitzgerald, \u201cBabylon Revisited\u201d<\/li>\n
                            5. MacLeod, \u201cThe Boat\u201d<\/li>\n
                            6. Malamud, \u201cNaked Nude\u201d<\/li>\n
                            7. Carver, \u201cWhere I\u2019m Calling From\u201d<\/li>\n
                            8. Gallant, \u201cIce Wagon Going Down the Street\u201d<\/li>\n
                            9. Munro, \u201cSomething I\u2019ve Been Meaning to Tell You\u201d<\/li>\n
                            10. Atwood, \u201cThe Age of Lead\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                              Best World Short Stories\"Winter's<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                \n
                              1. Borges, \u201cTl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\u201d<\/li>\n
                              2. Dinesen, \u201cSorrow-Acre\u201d<\/li>\n
                              3. Mansfield, \u201cA Doll\u2019s House\u201d<\/li>\n
                              4. Calvino, \u201cThe Distance of the Moon\u201d<\/li>\n
                              5. Spark, \u201cThe Dark Glasses\u201d<\/li>\n
                              6. Achebe, \u201cGirls at War\u201d<\/li>\n
                              7. Babel, \u201cSunset\u201d<\/li>\n
                              8. Carey, \u201cDo You Love Me?\u201d<\/li>\n
                              9. Naipaul, \u201cB. Wordsworth\u201d<\/li>\n
                              10. Lem, \u201cLes Robinsonades\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                              11. Borges, \u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d<\/li>\n
                              12. Gordimer, \u201cSix Feet of the Country\u201d<\/li>\n
                              13. Mansfield, \u201cThe Garden Party\u201d<\/li>\n
                              14. Okri, \u201cIncidents at the Shrine\u201d<\/li>\n
                              15. McFarlane, \u201cExotic Animal Medicine\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                Best Canadian Short Stories\"Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                  \n
                                1. MacLeod, \u201cThe Boat\u201d<\/li>\n
                                2. Gallant, \u201cIce Wagon Going Down the Street\u201d<\/li>\n
                                3. Munro, \u201cSomething I\u2019ve Been Meaning to Tell You\u201d<\/li>\n
                                4. Munro, \u201cSpelling\u201d<\/li>\n
                                5. Atwood, \u201cThe Age of Lead\u201d<\/li>\n
                                6. Vanderhaeghe, \u201cMan on Horseback\u201d<\/li>\n
                                7. Laurence, \u201cTo Set Our House in Order\u201d<\/li>\n
                                8. Shields, \u201cHazel\u201d<\/li>\n
                                9. Rule, \u201cSlogans\u201d<\/li>\n
                                10. Atwood, \u201cThe Sin Eater\u201d<\/li>\n
                                11. Crummey, \u201cBread\u201d<\/li>\n
                                12. Birdsell, \u201cThe Wednesday Circle\u201d<\/li>\n
                                13. Redhill, \u201cThe Flesh Collectors\u201d<\/li>\n
                                14. Christie, \u201cThe Extra\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                15. Mistry, \u201cSwimming Lessons\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
                                16. Maitland, \u201cThe Stone Lion\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                  Best American Short Stories\"LostInTheFunhouse.JPG\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                    \n
                                  1. Barth, \u201cLost in the Funhouse\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  2. Fitzgerald, \u201cBabylon Revisited\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  3. Malamud, \u201cNaked Nude\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  4. Carver, \u201cWhere I\u2019m Calling From\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  5. Hempel, \u201cIn the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  6. O\u2019Connor, \u201cParker\u2019s Back\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  7. Oates, \u201cHow I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  8. Roth, \u201cThe Conversion of the Jews\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  9. Wallace, \u201cThe Suffering Channel\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  10. Godwin, \u201cDream Children\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  11. James, \u201cDaisy Miller\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  12. Spencer, \u201cThe Girl Who Loved Horses\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  13. J. Williams, \u201cThe Farm\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  14. Cheever, \u201cThe Country Husband\u201d<\/li>\n
                                  15. LeGuin, \u201cSchr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Cat\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                    Best Manitoba Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                      \n
                                    1. Williams, The River Horsemen<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    2. Shields, The Stone Diaries<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    3. <\/strong>Laurence, The Stone Angel<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    4. Bergen, The Matter With Morris<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    5. Roy, The Road Past Altamont<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    6. Kroetsch, What the Crow Said<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    7. Bergen, A Year of Lesser<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
                                    8. Cook, The Full Catastrophe<\/em><\/li>\n
                                    9. Sweatman,\u00a0Fox<\/em><\/li>\n
                                    10. Birdsell, The Chrome Suite<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                      Best Non-Fiction <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                        \n
                                      1. Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature <\/em>(2011)<\/li>\n
                                      2. <\/strong>Taylor, Sources of the Self\u00a0<\/em>(1989)<\/li>\n
                                      3. Gombrich, Art and Illusion <\/em>(1960)<\/li>\n
                                      4. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down <\/em>(2004)<\/li>\n
                                      5. Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel <\/em>(1997)<\/li>\n
                                      6. Fortey, Life: The First Four Billion Years <\/em>(1997)<\/li>\n
                                      7. Henrich, The Weirdest People in the World<\/em> (2020)<\/li>\n
                                      8. Elias, The Civilizing Process <\/em>(1939)<\/li>\n
                                      9. Pinker, Enlightenment Now<\/em> (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                      10. Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms <\/em>(1976)<\/li>\n
                                      11. Hrdy, Mother Nature <\/em>(1999)<\/li>\n
                                      12. Diamond, Collapse <\/em>(2005)<\/li>\n
                                      13. Packer, The Unwinding <\/em>(2013)<\/li>\n
                                      14. Anderson, Imagined Communities <\/em>(1983)<\/li>\n
                                      15. Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought <\/em>(2002)<\/li>\n
                                      16. Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault <\/em>(1993)<\/li>\n
                                      17. Rawls, A Theory of Justice <\/em>(1971)<\/li>\n
                                      18. Taylor, A Secular Age<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n
                                      19. Buss, The Evolution of Desire <\/em>(1994, 2003)<\/li>\n
                                      20. Bauman, Liquid Modernity\u00a0 <\/em>(2000)<\/li>\n
                                      21. De Waal, Good-Natured <\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n
                                      22. James, The Varieties of Religious Experience <\/em>(1901-2)<\/li>\n
                                      23. Boyd, On the Origin of Stories <\/em>(2009)<\/li>\n
                                      24. Haidt, The Righteous Mind<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n
                                      25. Westad, The Cold War: A World History<\/em> (2017)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                        Best Movies\"And <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                          \n
                                        1. And the Ship Sails On<\/em> (E la nava va,<\/em> 1983)<\/li>\n
                                        2. The<\/em> Seventh Seal <\/em>(Det sjundte inseglet,<\/em> 1956)<\/li>\n
                                        3. Brazil<\/em> (1985)<\/li>\n
                                        4. Jesus of Montreal<\/em> (Jesus de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>, 1989)<\/li>\n
                                        5. La Strada <\/em>(1954)<\/li>\n
                                        6. Being John Malkovich<\/em> (1999)<\/li>\n
                                        7. 8 1\/2<\/em> (Otto e mezzo<\/em>, 1962)<\/li>\n
                                        8. Autumn Sonata<\/em> (H\u00f6stsonaten,<\/em> 1978)<\/li>\n
                                        9. Fanny and Alexander<\/em> (Fanny och Alexander,<\/em> 1982)<\/li>\n
                                        10. Winter Sleep<\/em>\u00a0(K\u0131\u015f Uykusu<\/em>, 2014)<\/li>\n
                                        11. Fargo<\/em> (1996)<\/li>\n
                                        12. Solaris<\/em> (Solyaris<\/em>, 1971)<\/li>\n
                                        13. Moonrise Kingdom <\/em>(2012)<\/li>\n
                                        14. The Great Beauty\u00a0(La Grande Belleza,\u00a0<\/em>2013)<\/li>\n
                                        15. Apocalypse Now<\/em>\u00a0(1979)<\/li>\n
                                        16. Tomorrow<\/em> (1972)<\/li>\n
                                        17. Bliss<\/em> (1985)<\/li>\n
                                        18. Breaker Morant<\/em> (1980)<\/li>\n
                                        19. Adaptation <\/em>(2002)<\/li>\n
                                        20. 21 Grams <\/em>(2003)<\/li>\n
                                        21. Dancer in the Dark<\/em> (2000)<\/li>\n
                                        22. Rules of the Game <\/em>(La R\u00e8gle du jeu<\/em>, 1939)<\/li>\n
                                        23. Short Cuts<\/em> <\/em>(1993)<\/li>\n
                                        24. Prairie Home Companion <\/em>(2006)<\/li>\n
                                        25. Am\u00e9lie <\/em>(Le Fabuleux destin d\u2019Am\u00e9lie Poulain,<\/em> 2001)<\/li>\n
                                        26. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)<\/em><\/li>\n
                                        27. Fitzcarraldo <\/em>(1982)<\/li>\n
                                        28. The Player <\/em>(1992)<\/li>\n
                                        29. C.R.A.Z.Y.<\/span><\/em> (2005)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                        30. I \u2665 Huckabees <\/em>(2004)<\/li>\n
                                        31. The Night of the Shooting S<\/em>tars (La notte di San Lorenzo<\/em>, 1981)<\/li>\n
                                        32. Empire of the Sun <\/em>(1987)<\/li>\n
                                        33. Red Sorghum <\/em>(Hong gao liang<\/em>, 1987)<\/li>\n
                                        34. Babe <\/em>(1995)<\/li>\n
                                        35. The Big Sleep <\/em>(1946)<\/li>\n
                                        36. Jean de Florette <\/em>(1986)<\/li>\n
                                        37. The<\/em> Sacrifice, <\/em>(Offret<\/em>, 1986)<\/li>\n
                                        38. Wings of Desire<\/em> (Der Himmel \u00fcber Berlin,<\/em> 1987)<\/li>\n
                                        39. City Lights<\/em> <\/em>(1931)<\/li>\n
                                        40. Shakespeare in Love<\/em> (1998)<\/li>\n
                                        41. The Sweet Hereafter<\/em> (1997)<\/li>\n
                                        42. How Green Was My Valley<\/em> (1941)<\/li>\n
                                        43. Nashville<\/em> (1975)<\/li>\n
                                        44. Toy Story II<\/em> (1999)<\/li>\n
                                        45. Am\u00e9lie <\/em>(Le Fabuleux destin d\u2019Am\u00e9lie Poulain,<\/em> 2001)<\/li>\n
                                        46. Wild Strawberries (Smultronst\u00e4llet<\/em> 1957)<\/li>\n
                                        47. The Farewell<\/em> (2019)<\/li>\n
                                        48. Ship of Fools<\/em> (1965)<\/li>\n
                                        49. Mephisto<\/em> (1981)<\/li>\n
                                        50. Dead Man<\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                          \n

                                          Best Movies of the 21st<\/sup> C<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                            \n
                                          1. Winter Sleep<\/span><\/em> (K\u0131\u015f Uykusu<\/em>, 2014)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                          2. Moonrise Kingdom<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n
                                          3. Adaptation <\/em>(2002)<\/li>\n
                                          4. 21 Grams <\/em>(2003)<\/li>\n
                                          5. C.R.A.Z.Y.<\/span><\/em> (2005) <\/span><\/li>\n
                                          6. The Great Beauty <\/span>(La Grande Belleza, <\/span><\/em>2013)<\/li>\n
                                          7. I \u2665 Huckabees <\/em>(2004)<\/li>\n
                                          8. Am\u00e9lie <\/em>(Le Fabuleux destin d\u2019Am\u00e9lie Poulain,<\/em> 2001)<\/li>\n
                                          9. The Farewell<\/em> (2019)<\/li>\n
                                          10. Toni Erdman <\/em>(2016)<\/li>\n
                                          11. Finding Neverland<\/em> (2004)<\/li>\n
                                          12. A Serious Man <\/span><\/em>(2009)<\/li>\n
                                          13. Everything is Illuminated<\/span><\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n
                                          14. Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/span><\/em> (2012)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                          15. The Royal Tenenbaums\u00a0<\/em> (2001)<\/li>\n
                                          16. Mulholland Drive<\/span><\/em> (2001)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                          17. Lady Bird<\/em> (2017)<\/li>\n
                                          18. Dancer in the Dark<\/em>\u00a0(2000)<\/li>\n
                                          19. Napoleon Dynamite<\/span><\/em> (2004) <\/span><\/li>\n
                                          20. Gosford Park<\/span><\/em> (2001)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                          21. Lazzaro felice<\/em> (Happy as Lazzaro<\/em>; 2018)<\/li>\n
                                          22. The<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>History Boys <\/em>(2007)<\/li>\n
                                          23. Rocket Science<\/span><\/em> (2007) <\/span><\/li>\n
                                          24. Synecdoche, New York<\/span><\/em> (2008) <\/span><\/li>\n
                                          25. Boyhood <\/span><\/em>(2014)<\/span><\/li>\n
                                          26. The Second Mother<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>Que Horas Ela Volta?<\/em> 2015) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
                                            Recent Great Reads: Non-fiction<\/strong><\/div>\n
                                              \n
                                            • De Waal, Different: Gender through the Eyes of a Primatologist (2022)<\/em><\/li>\n
                                            • Turchin, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration<\/em> (2023)<\/li>\n
                                            • Twenge, Generations<\/em> (2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                              Recent Great Reads: Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                \n
                                              • Powers, The Overstory<\/em> (2018)<\/li>\n
                                              • Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land <\/em>(2021)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n
                                              • Egan, The Candy House<\/em> (2022)<\/li>\n
                                              • Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea <\/em>(2018)<\/li>\n
                                              • Vanderhaeghe, August into Winter <\/em>(2021)<\/li>\n
                                              • Anand, A Convergence of Solitudes<\/em> (2022)<\/li>\n
                                              • Sunga, Because of Nothing at All<\/em> (2022)<\/li>\n
                                              • Catton,\u00a0Birnam Wood<\/em> (2023)<\/li>\n
                                              • Cook, The Full Catastrophe<\/em> (2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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