Some Lists:

Favourite Music:

Prodigy, The Shins, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Placebo, Tracy Chapman, The Streets, David Gray, Keane, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Damien Rice, Mariza, Bach, Wagner, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Haydn, Mahler, Berlioz, Brahms, Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich, Aimee Mann, Air, Alan Silvestri, Alison Krauss, Annie Lennox, Bryan Adams, Ben Harper, Bill Withers, Beyonce, Bjork, Boulez, Camille, Cat Stevens, Coldplay, Sarah McLaghlan, Colin Hay, Fairuz, Fiona Apple, Jack Johnson, Jeff Buckley – Grace, Joni Mitchell, Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray, Norah Jones, Iron and Wine, Portishead, Radiohead, Sheryl Crow, The Clash – Spanish Bombs, Sting

Favourite T.V. Shows:

Scrubs, E.R., Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under, Friends, How I Met Your Mother

Favourite Films:

Pride & Prejudice, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 21 Grams, Japanese Story, Sophie Scholl, White Countess, Failure to Launch, The Family Stone, Leon, The Constant Gardener, Magnolia, Closer, Good Night and Good Luck, Love Actually, Sideways, Osama, Gattaca, A Lot Like Love, 9 Songs, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Leaving Las Vegas, Notting Hill, Lost in Translation, The Hours, About a Boy, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, Little Children, Pollock, Requiem for a Dream, Paris je t’aime, V for Vendetta, Free Zone, Cold Mountain, Anywhere But Here, Beautiful Girls, Heat, The Last Kiss, The Squid and the Whale, 25^th Hour, Buffalo Soldiers, Finding Forrester, Almost Famous, Winter Passing, House of Fools, Affliction, Foreign Correspondent, Drunk on Women and Poetry, Young Adam, Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, The Sweet Hereafter, Serendipity, Meet Joe Black, Boys and Girls, Lilya 4-Ever, The Ascent, La Belle Noiseuse, Possession, Hideous Kinky, Casablanca, No Man’s Land, La Vie Est Une Miracle, Life As A House, Panic Room, Iris, Lord of the Rings, Autumn in New York, Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, Ghost World, Intimacy, The English Patient, Kolya, The Girl in the Café, Syriana, In My Father’s Den, The Leopard, Welcome to Sarajevo, Sometimes in April, A Room With A View, City of Angels, Full Metal Jacket, Great Expectations, The Family Man, Atonement – Ian McEwan, Traffic, Wonder Boys, The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky), Songs from the Second Floor, Vanilla Sky, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Babel, Running With Scissors, Stranger than Fiction, The Last King of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine, Fight Club

Favourite Books:

White Teeth – Zadie Smith, Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen, Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver, Ariel – Sylvia Plath, The Secret History – Donna Tartt, An Unexpected Light – Jason Elliot, The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger, The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri, Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee, The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen, The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation – Robert Fisk, Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing – Christopher Cramer, Mimesis – Erich Auerbach, A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali – Giles Courtemanche, Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy, Unless – Carol Shields, Points of Departure – James Cameron, Poems – Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels, Between Mountains – Maggie Helwig, Straw Dogs – John Gray, A Bed for the Night – David Rieff, The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks, Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier, Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald, Union Street – Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker, Double Vision – Pat Barker, Border Crossing – Pat Barker, The Calligrapher – Edward Docx, Brick Lane – Monica Ali, The Sea House – Esther Freud, Nowhere Man – Aleksander Hemon, Timoleon Vieta Come Home – Dan Rhodes, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning – Chris Hedges, Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad, Transformations of Love – Frances Harris, After You’d Gone – Maggie O’Farrell, Nicholas & Alexandra – Robert K. Massie, How to Be Alone – Jonathan Franzen, Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen, Words Alone – Denis Donoghue, John Clare – Jonathan Bate, The Song of the Earth – Jonathan Bate, Letters to Felice – Franz Kafka, Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer, Bel Canto – Ann Patchett, Rembrandt’s Eyes – Simon Schama, The Human Stain – Philip Roth, The Dying Animal – Philip Roth, The Siege – Helen Dunmore, Poems – Anna Akhmatova, How to Be Good – Nick Hornby, Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell, New York Trilogy – Paul Auster, The Good Neighbour – John Burnside, Paris Trance – Geoff Dyer, Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje, Elegies – Douglas Dunn, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera, Solitude – Anthony Storr, Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer