Books and Movies for 2017

Here’s a list of all the movies I saw and books I finished in 2017 (links will take you to quotes or reviews):

Books: Fiction

1. One Fat Englishman - Kingsley Amis
2. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
3. 18 Stories - Heinrich Boll
4. The Baby Doll Murders - James O. Causey
5. Fire on the Mountain - Anita Desai
6. Human Voices - Penelope Fitzgerald
7. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
8. The Way Some People Die - Ross Macdonald
9. Casanova’s Homecoming - Arthur Schnitzler
10. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Books: Non-Fiction

1. Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
2. Personal Impressions - Isaiah Berlin
3. Frames of War - Judith Butler
4. The Old Regime and the French Revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville
5. Experience and Education - John Dewey
6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
7. Hollywood in Crisis, or: The Collapse of the Real - Wheeler Dixon
8. The Immense Journey - Loren Eiseley
9. Between Them - Richard Ford
10. Letters, vol. 1 - Gustave Flaubert
11. Our Love Affair With Germany - Hans Habe
12. The Wounded Land: Journey in a Divided America - Hans Habe
13. Play All - Clive James
14. The Propensity of Things - Francois Jullien
15. Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs - August Kleinzahler
16. Madame de Pompadour - Nancy Mitford
17. Occasional Prose - Mary McCarthy
18. The Development of the Modern State - Gianfranco Poggi
19. The Frontiers of Meaning - Charles Rosen
20. Low Dishonest Decades: Essays and Reviews - George Scialabba
21. Lost Profiles - Philippe Soupault
22. A Philosophy of Loneliness - Lars Svendsen
23. In Praise of Shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki
24. Warner Bros - David Thomson
25. Trouble in Paradise - Slavoj Zizek

Unfinished Books: I didn’t read these all the way through, but I did manage to get posts out of them: 

1. Designed for Hi-Fi Living - Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
2. Man of the Year: A Memoir - Lou Cove
3. Film Noir - Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller
4. Main Currents in Marxism - Leszek Kolakowski

Movies

1. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2. 45 Years
3. A Few Good Men
4. A Life at Stake
5. A Perfect Couple
6. Almost Famous
7. Another Part of the Forest
8. Arrival
9. As Good As It Gets
10. Babette’s Feast
11. Back to the Future
12. Barcelona
13. Blackmail
14. Blue Jasmine
15. Bridge of Spies
16. Cape Fear (1962)
17. Captain America: Civil War
18. Captain Fantastic
19. Carrington
20. Cause for Alarm!
21. Central Intelligence
22. City of Fear
23. Diabolically Yours
24. Drugstore Cowboy
25. Easy
26. Fallen Angels
27. Florence Foster Jenkins
28. Foreign Correspondent
29. The Founder
30. Furious 7
31. Genius
32. Gosford Park
33. Hannah Arendt
34. Heartburn
35. I Heart Huckabees
36. Jackie
37. Keeping Up With the Joneses
38. La La Land
39. Let Yourself Go
40. Love and Bullets (2017)
41. Manon 70
42. MASH
43. Match
44. Metropolitan
45. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
46. Mr. Holmes
47. Naples ‘44
48. No Regrets for Our Youth
49. Please Murder Me
50. Prelude to a Kiss
51. Pushover
52. Ride the Whirlwind
53. Russian Ark
54. Samsara
55. Secret Honor
56. Stand by Me
57. Star Wars: Rogue One
58. Stolen Kisses
59. Sully
60. The Accountant
61. The Comedian
62. The Day Time Ended
63. The Great Beauty
64. The Imitation Game
65. The Last Days of Disco
66. The Last Metro
67. The Lego Batman Movie
68. The Long Goodbye
69. The Mayor of Hell
70. The Men who Stare at Goats
71. The Nice Guys
72. The Shawshank Redemption 
73. The Story of a Cheat
74. The War of the Yokels
75. Un Choc
76. Up in the Air
77. Vincent & Theo
78. War Dogs
79. When Harry Met Sally
80. Where Danger Lives
81. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
82. Wife & Husband
83. Wild at Heart
84. Wings of Desire
85. Xanadu