List of Books and Movies for 2012
Books/Plays
Finished
1. The Call of Cthulhu: 67 Tales of Horror (H.P. Lovecraft)
2. He Died with his Eyes Open (Derek Raymond)
3. Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
4. Never Look Away (Linwood Barclay)
5. War Reporting for Cowards (Chris Ayres)
6. The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
7. From the City, From the Plough (Alexander Baron)
8. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
9. A Scandal in Bohemia and Other Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
10. Nerd Do Well (Simon Pegg)
11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
12. The Crucifix Killer (Chris Carter)
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
14. Emma (Jane Austen)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
17. The Final Problem and Other Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
18. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
19. Skippy Dies (Paul Murray)
20. Starter for Ten (David Nicholls)
21. London Street Furniture (David Brandon & Alan Brooke)
22. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fennimore Cooper)
23. Making Money (Terry Pratchett)
24. Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)
25. King Solomon's Mines (Henry Rider Haggard)
26. The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
27. Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
28. Enough (Helen Roseveare)
29. 2010: Odyssey Two (Arthur C. Clarke)
30. Lean on Pete (Willy Vlautin)
31. Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde)
32. The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
33. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
34. Livewires (D.J. Carswell)
35. Disturbing the Peace (Richard Yates)
36. The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
37. Miracles (C.S. Lewis)
38. We Could be Heroes (Ben Dirs & Tom Fordyce)
39. The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
40. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
41. The Christ Files (John Dickson)
42. 2061: Odyssey Three (Arthur C. Clarke)
43. Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
44. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
45. Persuasion (Jane Austen)
46. Yellow Dog (Martin Amis)
47. Pop. 1280 (Jim Thompson)
48. Mort (Terry Pratchett)
49. 3001: The Final Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
50. Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
51. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
52. Catch as Catch Can (Joseph Heller)
53. Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
54. The Football Pocket Bible (Gavin Cooke)
55. King Richard the Third (William Shakespeare)
56. 11.22.63 (Stephen King)
57. Awkward Situations for Men (Danny Wallace)
58. London Under (Peter Ackroyd)
59. Romans: Momentous News (David Cook)
60. Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
61. Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
62. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan (Alan Partridge)
63. Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
64. Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
65. Pyramids (Terry Pratchett)
66. Eye in the Sky (Philip K. Dick)
67. Death Comes to Pemberley (P.D. James)
68. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
69. Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett)
70. Almodis: The Peaceweaver (Tracey Warr)
71. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
72. Villette (Charlotte Brontë)
73. Eric (Terry Pratchett)
74. Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
75. The Damned Utd (David Peace)
76. The Real Christmas (Marcus Nodder and Tim Thornborough)
77. The Mighty Book of Boosh (Compiled by Dave Brown)
78. Don't: A Manual of Mistakes & Improprieties more or less prevalent in Conduct and Speech
79. The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides (Andy Riley)
80. London Underground: Architecture, Design and History (David Long)
81. Gordon Brittas: Sharing the Dream (Jonathan Rice)
82. F in Exams (Richard Benson)
In progress
The Oxford Book of Exploration (Robin Hanbury-Tenison)
A Street Cat Named Bob (James Bowen)
Planning to read
Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said (Philip K. Dick)
Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett)
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Reaper Man (Terry Pratchett)
Movies
1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates, 2010)
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates, 2011)
5. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
6. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)
7. The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd, 2011)
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski, 2007)
9. L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930)
10. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacer, 1987)
11. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970)
12. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
13. Senna (Asif Kapadia, 2010)
14. Run Fatboy Run (David Schwimmer, 2007)
15. The Darkened Room (David Lynch, 2002)
16. Boat (David Lynch, 2007)
17. Psycho (Alfred Hitchock, 1960)
18. The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)
19. Lamp (David Lynch, 2003)
20. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
21. Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
22. Out Yonder the Neighbour Boy (David Lynch, 2001)
23. Industrial Cityscapes (David Lynch)
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
25. Bug Crawls (David Lynch, 2007)
26. Intervalometer Experiments (David Lynch)
27. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983)
28. Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook, 1963)
29. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
30. Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan, 2006)
31. Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Dwayne Carey-Hill, 2007)
32. Cemetery Junction (Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, 2010)
33. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
34. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
35. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
36. 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007)
37. Mallrats (Kevin Smith, 1995)
38. Beetle Juice (Tim Burton, 1988)
39. Avengers Assemble (Joss Whedon, 2012)
40. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
41. The Ladykillers (Alexander MacKendrick, 1955)
42. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
43. Gulliver's Travels (Rob Letterman, 2010)
44. Mission: Impossible (Brian DePalma, 1996)
45. Killing Zoe (Roger Avary, 1993)
46. The Witches (Nicholas Roeg, 1989)
47. Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)
48. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011)
49. Alphabet 2 (David Lynch, 1968)
50. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
51. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
52. Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh Nelson, 2011)
53. Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
54. Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock, 1969)
55. The Duchess (Saul Dibb, 2008)
56. Akira (Katruhiro Ohtomo, 1988)
57. One Night in Turin (James Erskine, 2010)
58. French Connection II (John Frankenheimer, 1975)
59. The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012)
60. Paranormal Activity 3 (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, 2011)
61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
62. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
63. Alien3 (David Fincher, 1992)
64. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
65. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
66. The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 2008)
67. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
68. The Hunter (Daniel Nettheim, 2011)
69. Candyman: Day of the Dead (Turi Meyer, 1999)
70. The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman, 1961)
71. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012)
72. Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs (Peter Avanzino, 2008)
73. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
74. Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012)
75. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
76. Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD (Gordon Flemyng, 1966)
77. Lesbian Vampire Killers (Phil Claydon, 2008)
78. Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1973)
79. Goal II: Living the Dream (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2007)
80. Awake (Joby Harold, 2007)
81. Speed (Jan De Bont, 1994)
82. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Special Edition) (James Cameron, 1991)
83. Back to the Future, Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
84. The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, 1974)
85. Stars Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
86. Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis, 1990)
87. Alien Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997)
88. Farewell My Lovely (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)
89. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refa, 2011)
90. Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
91. I Married a Strange Person! (Bill Plympton, 1997)
92. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn, 2007)
93. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
94. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan, 1995)
95. Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011)
96. The House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959)
97. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson, 2012)
98. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
99. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, 1992)
100. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
101. Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron, 2009)
Seen for the first time: 64
Rewatched: 37
Finished
1. The Call of Cthulhu: 67 Tales of Horror (H.P. Lovecraft)
2. He Died with his Eyes Open (Derek Raymond)
3. Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
4. Never Look Away (Linwood Barclay)
5. War Reporting for Cowards (Chris Ayres)
6. The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
7. From the City, From the Plough (Alexander Baron)
8. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
9. A Scandal in Bohemia and Other Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
10. Nerd Do Well (Simon Pegg)
11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
12. The Crucifix Killer (Chris Carter)
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
14. Emma (Jane Austen)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
17. The Final Problem and Other Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
18. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
19. Skippy Dies (Paul Murray)
20. Starter for Ten (David Nicholls)
21. London Street Furniture (David Brandon & Alan Brooke)
22. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fennimore Cooper)
23. Making Money (Terry Pratchett)
24. Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)
25. King Solomon's Mines (Henry Rider Haggard)
26. The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
27. Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
28. Enough (Helen Roseveare)
29. 2010: Odyssey Two (Arthur C. Clarke)
30. Lean on Pete (Willy Vlautin)
31. Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde)
32. The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
33. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
34. Livewires (D.J. Carswell)
35. Disturbing the Peace (Richard Yates)
36. The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
37. Miracles (C.S. Lewis)
38. We Could be Heroes (Ben Dirs & Tom Fordyce)
39. The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
40. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
41. The Christ Files (John Dickson)
42. 2061: Odyssey Three (Arthur C. Clarke)
43. Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
44. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
45. Persuasion (Jane Austen)
46. Yellow Dog (Martin Amis)
47. Pop. 1280 (Jim Thompson)
48. Mort (Terry Pratchett)
49. 3001: The Final Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
50. Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
51. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
52. Catch as Catch Can (Joseph Heller)
53. Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
54. The Football Pocket Bible (Gavin Cooke)
55. King Richard the Third (William Shakespeare)
56. 11.22.63 (Stephen King)
57. Awkward Situations for Men (Danny Wallace)
58. London Under (Peter Ackroyd)
59. Romans: Momentous News (David Cook)
60. Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
61. Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
62. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan (Alan Partridge)
63. Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
64. Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
65. Pyramids (Terry Pratchett)
66. Eye in the Sky (Philip K. Dick)
67. Death Comes to Pemberley (P.D. James)
68. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
69. Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett)
70. Almodis: The Peaceweaver (Tracey Warr)
71. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
72. Villette (Charlotte Brontë)
73. Eric (Terry Pratchett)
74. Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
75. The Damned Utd (David Peace)
76. The Real Christmas (Marcus Nodder and Tim Thornborough)
77. The Mighty Book of Boosh (Compiled by Dave Brown)
78. Don't: A Manual of Mistakes & Improprieties more or less prevalent in Conduct and Speech
79. The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides (Andy Riley)
80. London Underground: Architecture, Design and History (David Long)
81. Gordon Brittas: Sharing the Dream (Jonathan Rice)
82. F in Exams (Richard Benson)
In progress
The Oxford Book of Exploration (Robin Hanbury-Tenison)
A Street Cat Named Bob (James Bowen)
Planning to read
Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said (Philip K. Dick)
Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett)
The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Reaper Man (Terry Pratchett)
Movies
1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates, 2010)
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates, 2011)
5. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
6. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)
7. The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd, 2011)
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski, 2007)
9. L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930)
10. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacer, 1987)
11. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970)
12. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
13. Senna (Asif Kapadia, 2010)
14. Run Fatboy Run (David Schwimmer, 2007)
15. The Darkened Room (David Lynch, 2002)
16. Boat (David Lynch, 2007)
17. Psycho (Alfred Hitchock, 1960)
18. The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)
19. Lamp (David Lynch, 2003)
20. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
21. Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
22. Out Yonder the Neighbour Boy (David Lynch, 2001)
23. Industrial Cityscapes (David Lynch)
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
25. Bug Crawls (David Lynch, 2007)
26. Intervalometer Experiments (David Lynch)
27. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983)
28. Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook, 1963)
29. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
30. Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan, 2006)
31. Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Dwayne Carey-Hill, 2007)
32. Cemetery Junction (Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, 2010)
33. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
34. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
35. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
36. 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007)
37. Mallrats (Kevin Smith, 1995)
38. Beetle Juice (Tim Burton, 1988)
39. Avengers Assemble (Joss Whedon, 2012)
40. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
41. The Ladykillers (Alexander MacKendrick, 1955)
42. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
43. Gulliver's Travels (Rob Letterman, 2010)
44. Mission: Impossible (Brian DePalma, 1996)
45. Killing Zoe (Roger Avary, 1993)
46. The Witches (Nicholas Roeg, 1989)
47. Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)
48. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011)
49. Alphabet 2 (David Lynch, 1968)
50. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
51. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
52. Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh Nelson, 2011)
53. Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
54. Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock, 1969)
55. The Duchess (Saul Dibb, 2008)
56. Akira (Katruhiro Ohtomo, 1988)
57. One Night in Turin (James Erskine, 2010)
58. French Connection II (John Frankenheimer, 1975)
59. The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012)
60. Paranormal Activity 3 (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, 2011)
61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
62. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
63. Alien3 (David Fincher, 1992)
64. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
65. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
66. The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 2008)
67. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
68. The Hunter (Daniel Nettheim, 2011)
69. Candyman: Day of the Dead (Turi Meyer, 1999)
70. The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman, 1961)
71. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012)
72. Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs (Peter Avanzino, 2008)
73. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
74. Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012)
75. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
76. Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD (Gordon Flemyng, 1966)
77. Lesbian Vampire Killers (Phil Claydon, 2008)
78. Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1973)
79. Goal II: Living the Dream (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2007)
80. Awake (Joby Harold, 2007)
81. Speed (Jan De Bont, 1994)
82. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Special Edition) (James Cameron, 1991)
83. Back to the Future, Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
84. The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, 1974)
85. Stars Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
86. Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis, 1990)
87. Alien Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997)
88. Farewell My Lovely (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)
89. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refa, 2011)
90. Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
91. I Married a Strange Person! (Bill Plympton, 1997)
92. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn, 2007)
93. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
94. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan, 1995)
95. Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011)
96. The House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959)
97. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson, 2012)
98. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
99. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, 1992)
100. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
101. Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron, 2009)
Seen for the first time: 64
Rewatched: 37