Book & Film List 2014

[hazey_sunshine]

Films:

1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
3. Pacific Rim
4. The Fall
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
6. Star Trek: Into Darkness
7. Underworld
8. Underworld: Evolution
9. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
10. Cruel Intentions
11. The Fifth Element
12. Serenity
13. While You Were Sleeping
14. Pride and Prejudice
15. Much Ado About Nothing
16. Bridget Jones' Diary
17. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason
18. Frozen
19. Twilight
20. Twilight: New Moon
21. Twilight: Eclipse
22. Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt1
23. Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt2
24. Dogma
25. Billy Elliot
26. Man of Steel
27. Enchanted
28. LOTR:FotW
29. LOTR:TT
30. Empire Records
31. LOTR:RotK
32. Saving Face
33. Silver Linings Playbook
34. Thor: The Dark World
35. Percy Jackson & the Sea of Monsters
36. The Spectacular Now
37. Suck
38. Velvet Goldmine
39. Tangled
40. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
41. The Wind Rises
42. Love Actually
43. The Breakfast Club
44. Stuck In Love
45. The Fault in Our Stars
46. We Bought a Zoo
47. WALL-E
48. The Notebook
49. The Fifth Estate
50. Made in America
51. Only Yesterday
52. Seeking a Friend for the end of the world
53. Ocean Waves
54. Elizabethtown
55. Mean Girls
56. Sixteen Candles
57. Lost in Translation
58. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
59. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
60. He's Just Not That Into You
61. Pride and Prejudice
62. Mask of Zorro
63. Begin Again
64. PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl
65. PotC - Dead Man's Chest
66. PotC - At World's End
67. Horns
68. The Imitation Game
69. The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

Books:

1. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
2. Sabriel - Garth Nix
3. Lirael - Garth Nix
4. Abhorsen - Garth Nix
5. A Trail of Fire - Diana Gabaldon
6. Selected Poems - Christina Rossetti
7. The Rope is the World - China Miéville
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
9. Stung with love: poems and fragments - Sappho (trans. Aaron Poochigian)
10. Dangerous Women (anthology)* - various, edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
11. Looking for Jake & other stories - China Miéville
12. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd
13. New Spring (Wheel of Time 0) - Robert Jordan
14. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
15. Alanna: the First Adventure (Song of the Lioness) - Tamora Pierce
16. The Spymaster's Lady - Joanna Bourne
17. Knowledge of Angels - Jill Paton-Walsh
18. Tess - Thomas Hardy
19. The Women's Room - Marilyn French
20. Alanna: the second Adventure (Song of the Lioness) - Tamora Pierce
21. a blink of the screen - Terry Pratchett
22. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
23. Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
24. Hourglass - Myra McEntire
25. Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
26. Just Kids - Patti Smith
27. The woman who rides like a man (Song of the Lioness) - Tamora Pierce
28. Lioness rampant (Song of the Lioness) - Tamora Pierce
29. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
30. How to talk to a widower - Jonathan Troppe [misogynistic, fat shaming, slut shaming, no redeeming qualities]
31. Diving Belles - Lucy Wood
32. Elijah's Mermaid - Essie Fox
33. Jigs & Reels - Joanne Harris
34. Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
35. Journal of a Wife (the early diary 1923-1927) - Anais Nin [too dull/removed from reality to finish]
36. The Ringmaster's Daughter - Jostein Gaarder
37. The Inheritance - Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm
38. The Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb
39. Lord John & the Hand of the Devils - Diana Gabaldon
40. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more - Roald Dahl
41. Days of Blood and Starlight - Laini Taylor
42. Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy
43. Shaman - Kim Stanley Robinson [utterly dispassionate, slow, fake documentary novel, obsessed with MC's penis, 'pizzle/spurtstick']
44. The Golden Fool - Robin Hobb
45. Fool's Fate - Robin Hobb
46. Grimm Tales - Philip Pullman
47. The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
48. Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia Block
49. A Little History of the World - E.H. Gombrich
50. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade - Diana Gabaldon
51. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
52. The City & The City - China Miéville
53. How to get filthy rich in rising Asia - Hamid Mohsin
54. Dragon Haven- Robin Hobb
55. City of Dragons - Robin Hobb
56. Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett
57. Blood of Dragons - Robin Hobb
58. The Witch of Salt and Storm - Kendall Kulper
59. Dreams of Gods and Monsters - Laini Taylor
60. Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb

Following from last year's experiment with colour coded reviews,
I'm keeping the general idea but narrowing the options!
*awesome
*good
*just ok/guilty pleasure
*no gtfo

*Dangerous Women (anthology):

1. Some Desperado - Joe Abercrombie
2. My Heart is Either Broken - Megan Abbott
3. Nora’s Song - Cecelia Holland
4. The Hands That Are Not There - Melinda Snodgrass
5. Bombshells - Jim Butcher
6. Raisa Stepanova - Carrie Vaughn
7. Wrestling Jesus - Joe R. Lansdale
8. Neighbors - Megan Lindholm [well written, but creeped me the fuck out]
9. I Know How to Pick ’Em - Lawrence Block
10. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell - Brandon Sanderson
11. A Queen in Exile - Sharon Kay Penman
12. The Girl in the Mirror - Lev Grossman
13. Second Arabesque, Very Slowly - Nancy Kress
14. City Lazarus - Diana Rowland
15. Virgins - Diana Gabaldon
16. Hell Hath No Fury - Sherrilyn Kenyon
17. Pronouncing Doom - S.M. Stirling
18. Name the Beast - Sam Sykes
19. Caretakers - Pat Cadigan
20. Lies My Mother Told Me - Caroline Spector
21. The Princess and the Queen - George R.R. Martin