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Reading and viewing recommendations by staff at the UW Libraries.

Books

1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
ISBN: 1400040159
Publication Date: 2011
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
ISBN: 0465010210
Publication Date: 2011
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
ISBN: 9780679450047
Publication Date: 2000
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo
Publication Date: 1939
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
ISBN: 0307377326
Publication Date: 2009
Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America by Katherine Beckett; Steven Kelly Herbert
ISBN: 0195395174
Publication Date: 2009-11-12
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers by Nancy C. Unger
ISBN: 0199735069
Publication Date: 2012
The Brides of March : Memoir of a Same-sex Marriage by Beren deMotier
ISBN: 059543987X
Publication Date: 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
ISBN: 9781594489587
Publication Date: 2007
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
ISBN: 9780375831003
Publication Date: 2006
The Corfu Trilogy by Durrell, Gerald
ISBN: 0141028416
Publication Date: 2006
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 0394496051
Publication Date: 1975
Diving into the Wreck 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich
ISBN: 9780393043709
Publication Date: 1973
The Dreaded Feast by Taylor Plimpton (Editor); Michele Clarke (Editor); P. J. O'Rourke
ISBN: 081098265X
Publication Date: 2009
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
ISBN: 0307460983
Publication Date: 2012
Driftless by David Rhodes
ISBN: 1571310592
Publication Date: 2008
Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard
ISBN: 0143036637
Publication Date: 2006
Hope by Shalom Auslander
ISBN: 159448838X
Publication Date: 2012
The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart
ISBN: 1582433453
Publication Date: 2006
The Last Holiday by Gil Scott Heron
ISBN: 0802129013
Publication Date: 2012
Law Man by Shon Hopwood; Dennis Michael Burke
ISBN: 0307887839
Publication Date: 2012
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
ISBN: 9780151008117
Publication Date: 2002
The Long Way Home : An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin
ISBN: 0061233331
Publication Date: 2010
My Life in France by Julia Child; Alex Prud'homme
ISBN: 9781400043460
Publication Date: 2006
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy
ISBN: 0307409635
Publication Date: 2009
Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich
ISBN: 1594202869
Publication Date: 2011
Red Dog by Louis de Bernières
ISBN: 9780375421556
Publication Date: 2001
Room by Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 0316098337
Publication Date: 2010
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780062065247
Publication Date: 2012
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
ISBN: 0618969020
Publication Date: 2012
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
ISBN: 9780679451501
Publication Date: 1996
Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson (Illustrator); Thomas Warburton (Translator)
ISBN: 0312625421
Publication Date: 2010
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780486284729
Publication Date: 1895
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
ISBN: 9780307949332
Publication Date: 2012

Movies

8 1/2 by Federico Fellini
Publication Date: 1963
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801
Chinatown by Roman Polanski
Publication Date: 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/
Collapse by Chris Smith
Publication Date: 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/
Desk Set by Walter Lang
Publication Date: 1957
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307
Eames : the architect and the painter by Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
Publication Date: 2011
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972646/
The Future of Food by Deborah Koons
Publication Date: 2004
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427276
George Washington by David Gordon Green
ISBN: 0780025032
Publication Date: 2000
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262432
Life of Pi by Ang Lee
Publication Date: 2012
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/
Love Actually by Richard Curtis
Publication Date: 2003
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/
My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
Publication Date: 1988
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283
Obselidia by Diane Bell
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1522218/
Raising Arizona by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Publication Date: 1987
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/
Rare Exports by Jalmari Helander
Publication Date: 2010
This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/
http://youtu.be/9RQlikX4vvw
Romantics Anonymous by Jean-Pierre Améris
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565958/
The Shop Around the Corner by Ernst Lubitsch
Publication Date: 1940
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033045
Tetsuo by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Publication Date: 1989
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/
Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks
Publication Date: 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/
Sanjuro by Akira Kurosawa
Publication Date: 1962
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056443

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