“being Held”, 2016

BBC's List of 100 Books To Read

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Dune by Frank Herbert

Emma by Jane Austen

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Animal Farm by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Stand by Stephen King

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough

Mort by Terry Pratchett

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

The Magus by John Fowles

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Ulysses by James Joyce

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson

The Twits by Roald Dahl

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

Holes by Louis Sachar

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Magician by Raymond E Feist

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Katherine by Anya Seton

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

turns out I’ve read a few of these 

huge film rec list

films about teenagers and coming of age: ghost world, a bronx tale, the breakfast club, girl interrupted, perks of being a wallflower, blue is the warmest color, rushmore, the last picture show, the virgin suicides, submarine, stand by me.

films about running away from home to find yourself: frances ha, spirited away, moonrise kingdom, 127 hours.

films about transgression, nihilism, and altering reality: fight club, american psycho, donnie darko, naked, the matrix, the piano teacher, martyrs.

films about finding your passion: kiki’s delivery service, american beauty, reality bites, school of rock, harold and maude.

films about drugs and existentialism: requiem for a dream, enter the void, trainspotting, spun, fear and loathing in las vegas, the trip, christiane f. 

films about deconstructing the manic pixie dream girl trope: scott pilgrim vs. the world, amelie, fucking amal, paper towns, shame, annie hall.,  500 days of summer.

films about punk rock: sid and nancy, we are the best!, jubilee, rock n roll high school, suburbia, the runaways, rocky horror picture show, ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains. 

films about lesbians: fucking amal, bound, saving face, blue is the warmest color, heavenly creatures, the kids are all right, high art

films about unconventional love: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, adventureland, silver linings playbook, amelie, lars and the real girl, when harry met sally, lost in translation.

films about art & artists: the antics roadshow, ai weiwei: never sorry, fame high, just like being there, woodmans, who the fuck Is jackson pollock, jean-michel basquiat: the radiant child, my kid could paint that, mona lisa smile

films about girl best friends: thelma & louise, spring breakers, thirteen, pitch perfect, dreamgirls, mystic pizza, the last days of disco, frances ha

message me for any requests!

Books to read (and reread)

- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte - Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut - Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli - This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz - A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle - Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, David Lubar - 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia - As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner  - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte - 1984, George Orwell  - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - The Bell Jar, Sylvia Path

I love you, For all that you are, All that you have been, And all you are yet to be. 🌹 ALLIZZWELL.