Summing up
I've underlined the books/movies of 2006.
BOOKS 2004-2006
The asterisk denotes curricular reading. (The asterisk in parentheses generally means that the work was simply recommened reading, that it's a book I used in writing a paper, that only parts of it were on my curriculum, or some such thing.)
A.
Alexie, Sherman - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven *
Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
Amis, Martin - Experience: A Memoir
Amis, Martin - The Information
Amis, Martin - The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio *
Arbus, Diane - Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
Atwood, Margaret - Surfacing
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
B.
Baugh, Albert C, and Thomas Cable - A History of the English Language *
Banville, John - Shroud
Banville, John - The Sea
Ballard, J.G. - Kingdom Come
Beckett, Samuel - Endgame *
Beckett, Samuel - En attendant Godot *
Begag, Azouz - Le gone du Chaâba *
Bellow, Saul - The Actual
Bjørneboe, Jens - Norge, mitt Norge
Bordo, Susan - Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
Bordo, Susan - The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
Borger, Julian - England, England
Boucher, David - Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll
Bradbury, Malcolm, and Richard Ruland - From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
Bradbury, Malcolm - History Man
Bradbury, Malcolm - No, Not Bloomsbury
Bradbury, Malcolm - The Modern British Novel
Brettell, Richard R - Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation
Bryson, Bill - Notes From a Small Island
Brink, André - Language and Narrative From Cervantes to Calvino
Brøgger, Susanne - Crème Fraiche
Bukowski, Charles - What Matters the Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
C.
Calvino, Italo - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Carey, John - Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books
Carlsen, Jørn (ed.) - O Canada: Essays on Canadian Literature and Culture
Cather, Willa - My Antónia*
Cavaney, Graham - Screaming With Joy: the Life of Allen Ginsberg
Coetzee, J.M. - Waiting for the Barbarians *
Coetzee, J.M - The Lives of Animals
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Crane, Stephen - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets*
Culler, Jonathan - Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (*)
D.
Dawsey, Darrel - Living to Tell About it: Young Black Men in America Speak Their Piece
De Beauvoir, Simone - Det annet kjønn
DeLillo, Don - White Noise
Dickens, Charles - Hard Times *
Duras, Marguerite - Moderato Cantabile *
Duve, Karen - Dette er ingen kjærlighetssang
E.
Eagleton, Terry - Literary Theory: An Introduction
Eagleton, Terry - After Theory
Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land and Other Poems
Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine *
F.
Faludi, Susan - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Faludi, Susan - Stiffed: The Betrayal of the Modern Man
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
Foster Wallace, David - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Franzen, Jonathan - How to Be Alone
French, Marilyn - The Women's Room
G.
Gabbard, Glen O. - The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Family
Garner, Robert (ed.) - Animal Rights: The changing debate
Golding, William - Pincher Martin
Gordon, Martin - Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on Raising Chickens
Green, Hannah - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Greene, Graham - The Quiet American
Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair
Greer, Germaine - The Whole Woman
Groult, Benoîte - Les trois quarts du temps
H.
Haugen, Paal-Helge - Anne *
Heath, Joseph and Andrew Potter - The Rebel Sell: How the Counter Culture Became Consumer Culture
Henriksen, Levi - Snø vil falle på snø som har falt
Hertz, Marianne M. - Sultens paradoks: viden og tendenser om anoreksi og bulimi
Hollinghurst, Alan - The Line of Beauty
hooks, bell - Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Hornby, Nick - A Long Way Down
Hornby, Nick - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hustvedt, Siri - A Plea For Eros
Hustvedt, Siri - What I loved
I.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Unconsoled
Ishiguro, Kazuo - When We Were Orphans
J.
James, Edward - Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, William - Pragmatism
Jameson, Fredric - A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
Jenkins, Richard - Pierre Bourdieu
Jewett, Sarah Orne - The County of the Pointed Firs *
Jones, Peter (ed.) - Imagist Poetry *
Jourde, Pierre - La littérature sans estomac
Joyce, James - The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *
K.
Kaysen, Susanna - Girl, Interrupted
Kennedy, A.L - Everything you Need
Kennedy, A.L - Paradise
Kövecses, Zoltan - Metaphor. An Introduction *
Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
L.
Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
Laye, Camara - L'enfant noir *
Leader, Zachary (ed.) - On Modern British Fiction
Levenson, Michael - A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 (*)
Levy, Ariel - Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Lodge, David - The Art of Fiction
Lubbock, Peter - The Craft of Fiction (*)
Lorentsen, Jørgen - Maskulinitet
M.
Madox Ford, Ford - The Good Soldier *
Mantel, Hilary - Beyond Black
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country For Old Men
McEwan, Ian - Saturday
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
McHoul, Alec and Wendy Grace - A Foucault Primer: Discourse, power and the subject
Meek, James - The People's Act of Love
Mitchell, W.J.T (ed.). - Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
Murdoch, Iris - The Bell
Moi, Toril - Sexual/Textual Politics
N.
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lectures on Literature [Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce]
Niemi, Mikael - Populærmusikk fra Vittula
Nugent, Benjamin - Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
O.
O' Casey, Sean - The Silver Tassie *
O' Hagan, Andrew - Personality
Owens, Bill - Suburbia
P.
Pierre, DB - Vernon God Little
Postman, Neil - Vi morer oss til døde
Poulin, Jacques - Volkswagen Blues *
Proulx, Annie - That Old Ace in the Hole
Q.
R.
Racine, Jean - Phèdre *
Raban, Jonathan - Waxwings
Rhys, Jean - Wide Saragasso Sea
Richler, Emma - Feed my Dear Dogs
Richler, Emma - Sister Crazy
Russell, Bertrand - History of Western Philosophy
Rowe, John Carlos (ed.) - Post-Nationalist American Studies
Rølvaag, O.E. - Giants in the Earth*
S.
Sage, Lorna - Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists
Said, Edward - Orientalism
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Sansom, Ian - Ring Road
Saramago, José - The Double
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis II: The Story of a Return
Sartre, Jean-Paul - Eksistensialisme er humanisme (*)
Shakespeare, William - Twelfth Night *
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion *
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein*
Shields, Carol - Unless
Shipler, David K. - The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Simons, Jon (ed.) - From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory
Simpson, Helen - Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
Simpson, Mark - Saint Morrissey
Skårderud, Finn - Sterk/Svak: Håndbok i spiseforstyrrelser
Smith, Murray - Trainspotting
Smith, Zadie - On Beauty
Sontag, Susan - On Photography
Sontag, Susan - Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Stevenson, Nick - Understanding Media Cultures: Social Theory and Mass Communication
Suzuma, Tabitha - A Note of Madness
T.
Thompson, Craig - Blankets: an Illustrated Novel
Toews, Miriam - A Complicated Kindness
Truss, Lynne - Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Truss, Lynne - Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life
U.
Ugrešić, Dubravka - Thank You For Not Reading
Updike, John -Rabbit Run
Updike, John - Villages
V.
Vidal, Gore - The City and the Pillar
Vincent, Norah - Self-Made Man
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt - Cat's Cradle
Vågnes, Øyvind - Ingen skal sove i natt
W.
Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome *
Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Wells, H.G. - War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse *
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway *
Wurtzel, Elizabeth - Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
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Aadland, Erling - Farvel til litteraturvitenskapen
MOVIES 2005-2006
A
Anderson, Wes - The Royal Tenenbaums (USA, 2001)
Anderson, Paul Thomas - Punch Drunk Love (USA, 2002)
Allen, Woody - Manhattan (USA, 1979)
Allen, Woody - Match Point (UK / USA / Luxembourg; 2005)
Altman, Robert - Gosford Park (England, 2001)
Aronofsky, Darren - Requiem For a Dream (USA, 2000)
Auster, Paul; Wayne Wang - Blue in the Face (USA, 1996)
B
Berger, Pablo - Torremolinos 73 (Denmark, Spain; 2003)
Bertolucci, Bernardo - Ultimo tango a Parigi (Italy, France; 1972)
Bier, Susanne - Elsker dig for evig (Denmark, 2002)
Bier, Susanne - Den eneste ene (Denmark, 1999)
Bier, Susanne - Efter brylluppet (Denmark, 2006)
Black, Shane - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (USA, 2005)
Boyle, Danny - Trainspotting (UK, 1996)
Braff, Zach - Garden State (USA, 2004)
C
Campbell, Martin - Casino Royale (UK,2006)
Chada, Gurinder - Bend it Like Beckham (UK,Germany; 2002)
Coen, Joel - Fargo (USA, 1996)
Coen, Joel - The Man Who Wasn't There (USA, 2001)
Crowe, Cameron - Almost Famous (USA, 2000)
Crowley, John - Intermission (Ireland, UK; 2003)
Cuarón, Alfonso - Y tu mamá también (Mexico,USA; 2001)
D
Daldry, Stephen - The Hours (USA, 2002)
De Palma, Brian - Mission: Impossible (USA, 1996)
Donner, Richard - 16 Blocks (USA, Germany; 2006)
E
Eimbcke, Fernando - Temporado de patos (Mexico, 2004)
Endresen, Sigve - Vektløs (Norway, 2002)
Ephron, Nora - Sleepless in Seattle (1993, USA)
Eyre, Chris - Smoke Signals (Canada, USA; 1998)
F
Forster, Mark - Monster's Ball (USA, 2001)
Forster, Mark - Stranger Than Fiction (USA, 2006)
G
Gondry, Michel - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (USA, 2004)
González Iñárritu, Alejandro - Babel (USA, Mexico; 2006)
H
Hackford, Taylor - An Officer and a Gentleman (USA, 1982)
Haneke, Michael - Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (France, 2000)
Hanson, Curtis - Wonder Boys (USA, 2000)
Haynes, Todd - Far From Heaven (USA, 2002)
Huston, John - The Dead (UK, Ireland, USA; 1987)
Horman, Sherry - Männer wie wir (Germany, 2004)
Hirschbiegel, Oliver - Der Untergang (Germany, 2004)
I
Iosseliani, Otar - Lundi Matin (France, Italy; 2002)
J
Jacquet, Luc - La marche de l'empereur (France, 2005)
Jarmusch, Jim - Broken Flowers (USA, 2005)
Jarmusch, Jim - Coffee and Cigarettes (USA, 2003)
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre - Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (France, 2001)
Johnson, Brian - Brick (USA, 2006)
Jonze, Spike - Adaptation (USA, 2002)
July, Miranda - Me and You and Everyone We Know (USA, UK; 2005)
K
Kári, Dagur - Voksne Mennesker / Dark Horse (Iceland, Denmark; 2005)
Kazan, Elia - A Streetcar Named Desire (USA, 1951)
Kasdan, Lawrence - The Accidental Tourist (USA, 1988)
Kassel, Nicole - The Woodsman (USA, 2004)
Kubrick, Stanley - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (UK, 1964)
L
Lau, Wai Keung - Wu jian dao /Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong, 2002)
Lee, Ang - Brokeback Mountain (USA, 2005)
Levinson, Barry - Rain Man (USA, 1988)
Linklater, Richard - Before Sunrise (USA, 1995)
Linklater, Richard - Before Sunset (USA, 2004)
Liman, Doug - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (USA, 2005)
Lucas, George - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (USA, 1999)
Lucas, George - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (USA, 2002)
Lynch, David - Mulholland Dr. (USA, 2001)
M
McCarthy, Thomas - The Station Agent (USA, 2003)
Madden, John - Proof (USA, 2005)
Malick, Terrence - Badlands (USA, 1973)
Malone, Adrian - [Carl Sagan's] Cosmos (USA, 1980)
Mangold, James - Girl, Interrupted (USA, 1999)
Malmros, Ulf - Tjenare kungen (Sweden, 2005)
Marston, Joshua - María Llena eres de Gracia/ Maria Full of Grace (Colombia, USA; 2004)
Melamed, Jordan - Manic (USA, 2001)
Moland, Hans Petter - Gymnaslærer Pedersen (Norway, 2006)
Moretti, Nanni - Stanza del figlio (Italy, France; 2001)
N
Nolan, Christopher - Batman Begins (USA, 2005)
Næss, Petter - Elling (Norway, 2001)
O
Olin, Margaret - Ungdommens råskap (Norway, 2004)
P
Payne, Alexander - About Schmidt (USA, 2002)
Payne, Alexander - Sideways (USA, 2004)
Pollak, Kay - Så som i himmelen (Sweden, 2004)
Q
R
Radford, Michael -Il Postino (Italy, France, Belgium; 1994)
Raimi, Sam - Spider-Man (USA, 2002)
Raimi, Sam - Spider-Man 2 (USA, 2004)
Reed, Peyton - The Break-Up (USA, 2006)
Rickman, Alan - The Winter Guest (UK/USA, 1997)
S
Schumacher, Joel - Falling Down (USA, 1993)
Scott, Ridley - Thelma & Louise (USA, 1991)
Skjoldbjærg, Erik - Prozac Nation (USA, 2001)
Soderbergh, Steven - Ocean's Twelve (USA, 2004)
Soderbergh, Steven - Out of Sight (USA, 1998)
Soderbergh, Steven - Sex, Lies, and Videotape (USA, 1988)
Soderbergh, Steven - Traffic (USA, 2000)
Solondz, Todd - Storytelling (USA, 2001)
Spielberg, Steven - Minority Report (USA, 2002)
Spielberg, Steven - Raiders of the Lost Ark (USA, 1981)
Spielberg, Steven - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (USA, 1984)
Spielberg, Steven - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (USA, 1989)
Star, Darren - Sex and the City (Season 1-VI) (USA, 1998-2004)
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V
Vallée, Jean-Marc - C.R.A.Z.Y (Canada, 2006)
Van Sant, Gus - Last Days (USA, 2005)
Verbinski, Gore - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (USA, 2003)
W
Watts, Sarah - Look Both Ways (Australia, 2005)
Whedon, Joss - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season I-VII) (USA, 1997-2003)
Winterbottom, Michael - 9 Songs (UK, 2004)
Wedge, Chris - Ice Age (USA, 2002)
Wenders, Wim - Paris, Texas (France,Germany; 1984)
Wenders, Wim - Buena Vista Social Club (Germany, USA, UK, France, Cuba; 1999)
Weitz. Chris; Paul Weitz - About a Boy (UK, 2002)
Wright, Joe - Pride and Prejudice (UK, 2005)
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