A Few of My Favorite Things
top 100 books and top 100 albums. |
100 | | Julien Baker Turn Out the Lights
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (Connected Short Stories)
2 things: 1) This album will def be toward the top of my list at some point but it's still too early to tell, 2) This books was supposed to be #2 on my list but something hecked up and now it's here, so enjoy. |
99 | | Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein (Children's Poetry) |
98 | | The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (YA Fiction) |
97 | | My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett (Absurdist Play) |
96 | | Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
A Series of Unfortunate Events (all) - Lemony Snicket (YA Fiction) |
95 | | Grimes Art Angels
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (Fiction) |
94 | | Touche Amore Stage Four
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk (Fiction) |
93 | | Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller (Graphic Novel) |
92 | | Modern Baseball You're Gonna Miss It All
From Hell - Alan Moore (Graphic Novel) |
91 | | Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction/Science Fiction) |
90 | | Gorillaz Plastic Beach
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Fiction) |
89 | | The Smith Street Band Throw Me In the River
The Green Mile - Stephen King (Fiction) |
88 | | Peter Gabriel So
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Fiction) |
87 | | Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
Cloud 9 - Caryl Churchill (Play) |
86 | | The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (Fiction) |
85 | | Solange A Seat at the Table
Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West - Rebecca Solnit (Nonfiction- Reporting) |
84 | | Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (Magical Realism/Fiction) |
83 | | Green Day American Idiot
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Fiction) |
82 | | Anberlin Vital
The Absolute True Diaries of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie (YA Fiction) |
81 | | Foxing The Albatross
Only Revolutions - Mark Z. Danielewski (Experimental Fiction) |
80 | | Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nahesi Coates (Nonfiction- Reporting) |
79 | | Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Fortune Smiles - Adam Johnson (Short Storeis - Fiction) |
78 | | Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?
Columbine - Dave Cullen (Nonfiction - Reporting) |
77 | | The World is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness
A Visit From the Good Squad - Jennifer Egan (Fiction) |
76 | | Jeff Buckley Grace
Crush - Richard Siken (Poetry) |
75 | | Faith No More Angel Dust
On Writing - Stephen King (Nonfiction- Craft/Memoir)
(this should really be higher on the list, but I forgot about it and now I'm here and I'm not bumping everything back) |
74 | | Alexisonfire Crisis
Sum - David Eagleman (Super-short existential stories - fiction) |
73 | | letlive. Fake History
Get In Trouble - Kelly Link (Fantasy Short Stories) |
72 | | Arcade Fire Funeral
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (Nonfiction Graphic Novel) |
71 | | Vince Staples Summertime '06
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon (Fiction) |
70 | | Tool Ænima
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby (Fiction - rec'd for music geeks) |
69 | | American Football American Football
Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey (Poetry) |
68 | | You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude
When Breath Become Air - Paul Kalanithi (Nonfiction - Memoir)
This album will never not be #69 |
67 | | Flying Lotus You're Dead!
Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iwela (Fiction) |
66 | | Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction Short Stories) |
65 | | blink-182 Enema of the State
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt (Fiction Western(ish)) |
64 | | mewithoutYou Pale Horses
Let Me Be Lonely - Claudia Rankine (Nonfiction/Poetry) |
63 | | At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nonfiction) |
62 | | Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After
March - John Robert Lewis (Nonfiction Graphic Novel) |
61 | | Steven Wilson Grace For Drowning
Norwegian Woods - Haruki Murakami (Magical Realism - Fiction) |
60 | | Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven (YA Fiction) |
59 | | Prawn You Can Just Leave It All
Bluets - Maggie Nelson (Nonfiction/Poetry) |
58 | | Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett (Fiction) |
57 | | Injury Reserve Floss
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (Fiction) |
56 | | Defeater Travels
Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (Nonfiction - Reporting) |
55 | | Tigers on Trains Grandfather
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch (Science Fiction) |
54 | | Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fiction) |
53 | | Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Citizen - Claudia Rankine (Nonfiction/Poetry) |
52 | | Pup The Dream Is Over
Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith (Poetry) |
51 | | Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Black Hole - Charles Burns (Graphic Novel) |
50 | | Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here to Help You
Hunger- Roxane Gay (Nonfiction - Memoir) |
49 | | Yellowcard Ocean Avenue
Watchmen - Alan Moore (Graphic Novel) |
48 | | The Hold Steady Separation Sunday
Bright Dead Things - Ada Limon (Poetry) |
47 | | Swarms Old Raves End
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (Fiction) |
46 | | Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James ("Historical" Fiction) |
45 | | mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Born A Crime - Trevor Noah (Nonfiction - Memoir) |
44 | | Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace (Short Stories)
Guess my favorite author. I dare you. |
43 | | Sharon Van Etten Are We There
The Vision: Little Worse Than Man - Tom King (Collected Comics) |
42 | | Friendzone DX
The Sellout - Paul Beatty (Fiction)
This one would probably go best paired with To Pimp a Butterfly |
41 | | Deftones Diamond Eyes
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris (Fiction) |
40 | | Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
Tenth of December - George Saunders (Short Stories - Fiction) |
39 | | Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (Historical Fiction)
These titles actually go quite well together. |
38 | | Joyce Manor Joyce Manor
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Antohny Marra (Fiction) |
37 | | Japandroids Celebration Rock
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller (Fiction) |
36 | | The Menzingers After the Party
Oblivion - David Foster Wallace (Short Stories - Fiction) |
35 | | The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms
Some Ether - Nick Flynn (Poetry) |
34 | | Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Karen Russell (Short Stories - Fiction) |
33 | | Peter Gabriel Melt
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace (Nonfiction - Essays/Memoirs) |
32 | | Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (Fiction - Western) |
31 | | The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg (Poetry) |
30 | | Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Spaceman Blues - Brian Francis Slattery (Science Fiction) |
29 | | The Microphones The Glow pt. 2
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Fiction) |
28 | | Pink Floyd The Wall
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien (Fiction) |
27 | | Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline
Feed - M.T. Anderson (YA Science Fiction) |
26 | | Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Buried Child - Sam Shepard (Play) |
25 | | The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation
Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis (Fiction)
Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet is actually based off of this book. |
24 | | Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn (Fiction) |
23 | | The National High Violet
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (Science Fiction) |
22 | | Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (Fiction) |
21 | | La Dispute Somewhere At The Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction) |
20 | | Titus Andronicus The Monitor
August: Osage County - Tracy Letts (Play) |
19 | | AJJ Knife Man
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (Fiction) |
18 | | Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (Fiction - Western) |
17 | | Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
Looking For Alaska - John Green (YA Fiction) |
16 | | Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Fiction) |
15 | | Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (Fiction - Western) |
14 | | Burial Untrue
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris (Graphic Novel) |
13 | | mewithoutYou Catch For Us The Foxes
Everything Matters! - Ron Currie, Jr. (Fiction) |
12 | | Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Fiction - Magical Realism) |
11 | | Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (Fiction) |
10 | | Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song
I'll Give You the Sun -- Jandy Nelson (YA Fiction) |
9 | | Converge Jane Doe
Blankets - Craig Thompson (Nonfiction Graphic Novel) |
8 | | Deftones White Pony
The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra (Connected Short Stories) |
7 | | Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski (Experimental Fiction) |
6 | | The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (Historical Fiction / Magical Realism) |
5 | | The Menzingers On the Impossible Past
The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson (Fiction) |
4 | | Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Bone (complete) - Jeff Smith (YA Graphic Novel) |
3 | | The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
A Little Life - Hanya Yanigihara (Fiction) |
2 | | The National Boxer
This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz. (Connected Short Stories) |
1 | | The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (Fiction) |
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