For What It's Worth – a literary blog

As a writer, I tend to read a lot. The following is a list of my all-time favorite books, in no particular order:

An Inquiry Into the Origin of Hens – Lao Tse

When the War Was Good – E. Hemingway

Hypochondriacs Live Longer – David Sedaris

Finnegan’s Wake and Bake – James Jones

Rich and Strange: The Biography of Howard Hughes – Anonymous

The Candy Licker – Schler Muhammed Rasool

The Candy Licker’s Daughter – Schler Muhammed Rasool

The Candy Licker’s Time Traveling Wife – Schler Muhammed Rasool

The Candy Licker’s Da Vinci Code… ‘In Bed’ – Schler Muhammed Rasool

Turning the Mind into an Alley – L. Rinpoche

Flaunt Your Buddhism, Girl!: A Girl’s Guide to Being a Single Buddhist in the Big City –
SJ Parker

Sexual Aberrations of the Criminal Female – Marnie Connery, Ph.D

Iraq: What the Hell is Happening? – Cornell West

Iraq: What the Hell Happened? – Cornell West

My Caucasian – Andre Dubus III

Nothing’s Illuminated, Bitch – Harold Bloom

The Fifty Best of Everything Ever and Why: From Aardvark to Dyspepsia – Harold Bloom

Priapism Among the Haystacks – TS Lawrence

The Complete Geological Surveys of Andrei Tarkovsky 1952 –58 (Schocken Classics Series)

How Much Protein Does a Man Need? – Leo Tolstoy

How Not to Look Fat – Danica Lo

Who’s Your Fishmonger? – Niles Crane

Little Dieter Don’t Diet – Gunter Grass

Billary Slams Obamanation on the Obanomy & Other Flip–flops – JT Plouffe

You CAN Take It With You: I Took My Money Beyond the Grave and So Can You – Trask Carnegie

My Itamae: A Story of A Boy & His Imaginary Sushi Chef – Ozu Murakami

My Life As Art – Andy Warhol

My Life As Art – Art Garfunkel

My Life in Art – Paul Simon

Good at Life: The Story of Barack Obama – Charlie Kaufmann

Indestructible Teeth: The Living Spirituality of Orthodontist Richard Shenkman –

Richard Shenkman, DMD

The Auras of Seals – JZ Coetzee

Cheese is the New Meat – Baron von Vanderkrass

“Hi baby girl. You are a precious treasure!” – Sunflower Concepcion

Electric Renaissance (In My Pants) – Medici Da Vinci

The Land Surveys of Henry David Thoreau 1851 –62 (Unabridged version, 2400 pp): Schocken Classics Series

Reading the Script: the Collected Prescriptions of William Carlos Williams, Organized by Drug Name (Schlocken Klassics, 4500 pp) – Professor Philip Windfcuker [submitted by M. Shadwell]

Suffocation – Knut Hamsun

The Hills of Tora Bora – Ernest Hemingway

Deep Shit: Philosophy and the Art of Sanitation – Charles Friedrich Pirsig

War and the Metamorphosis of the Idiot – Franz Tolstoevsky

The Tough Tears Series: Cry Tough, Sob Tough, Weep Tough, Wail Tough

For Colored Girls/ When they go over the rainbow/ and get the blues – by Cholo (author of The Vagina Decologues, House of Freedom, &  O Cry, O Solitude!)

For Colored Girls/ When the Rainbow is More than Enuff/ But they Can’t Figure Out How to eat Flan – Cholo

The Bedbugs of Shannara – Terrence Gilliam

The Uneditable – Samuel Beckett

The Coconut Shuckers – Jeb Steinbeck

The 101 Best Recipes For Preparing Bedbugs – Shel Rombauer & Bob Dylan (aka, Jack Frost) 

Krapp’s First Tape – Samuel Beckett

Cooking Without Looking: Harnessing the Power of the Force to Prepare the Finest Culinary Delights – Leia Childs

The Best American Poetry of 2011 (or, Some of the Worst Poetry of All Time) – eds. Philip Windfcuker & Rebecca Socialclimer

No Entrance: Race Relations in 1960s Mississippi – John Paul Sartre

The Analytics – Google

Man’s Search for Herring – Wheelis Frankl

America’s 50 Best States – Roscoe Wilderness

Chinchillas in the Mist – Everett Goodall 

And here are some of my favorite movies…

From the Producers of Girls Gone Wild: Food Gone Bad

Flipper & Lassie: Tag-team Madness

Harold and Kumar No More Go A Roving

Diarrhea of a Country Priest – Robert Bresson

The Troi Colors Trilogy – Kieslowski Kandinsky

I Am Bi-curious, Yellow

I Am Horny, Rouge

I Am Very Hungover, Don’t Talk To Me, Puce

Children of the Opposite Sex – Marcel Ophuls

Days of Indigestion – Kar Wong Wei

Chinchillas in the Mist (documentary based on the bestselling book by Everett Goodall)

And, for good measure, three of my very favorite songs…

Don’t Bogart the Pussy – Tone-Déf

I Want to Put My Penis Inside Your Vagina, Woman – Martin Ricky

Wholesome Romance – Lady GooGoo