so if they're not going to update their reading list, I figure we can. here's a list of further books that they have mentioned reading before (in interviews/articles, personal conversations, newsletters, etc..) that aren't on the main list. if you know of any others, please add to this.

Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Walden (or, Life in the Woods), Henry David Thoreau
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
The Memory of Old Jack, Wendell Berry
A Way of Being Free, Ben Okri
The Four Quartets, T.S. Elliot
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton
Wishful Thinking, Frederick Buechner
Losing Battles, Eudora Welty
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Can Man Live Without God?, Ravi Zacharias
Farmer Boy, Laura Ingles Wilder
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
Disapointment with God, Philip Yancy
Walking on Water, Madeleine L’Engle
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley
Scot Cairns
E.E.Cummings
Rumi
Shakespeare
Andrew Hudgins, Ecstatic in the Poison
Lies of the Saints, Erin McGraw
Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

Watch With Me : And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch by Wendell Berry

Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis



Great idea, Brook!

And there are all those Michael Wilson books:

I See That Hand
Heads Bowed, Eyes Closed, No One Looking Around (I think this one is L.'s fav.)
What I Really Like is Music

and
First Kind Sight

also

the name of the rose
the griffin and sabine trilogy

D'oh!

I'll have to claim a sleepy Friday morning in my defence...

(Oh, and now there are SIX Griffin & Sabine books! I wonder if they've read the last three yet?)

i found the recommendations on a old disc:

Karin and Linford pick titles from their shelves... "These books have moved us, delighted us, instructed us or at least kept us occupied during those long drives through the night."

A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L'Engle
Teaching A Stone To Talk, Annie Dillard
Dylan Thomas in America, John Malcolm Brinnin
Mystery and Manners, Flannery O'Connor
Night, Elie Wiesel
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
The Book of Bebb, Frederic Buechner (Four novels collected under one cover.)
A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle
The Captain's Verses, Pablo Neruda
A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
Spilling Open, Sabrina Ward Harrison
Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
Phantastes, George MacDonald
The Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin
Immediate Family, Sally Mann
Photographs, Emmet Gowin
Dear Theo, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother, edited by Irving Stone
A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
Mad Man's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts, Lynd Ward
I Could Tell You Stories, Patricia Hampl
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor
Fidelity, Wendell Berry
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
North of Hope, Jon Hassler
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
The Wild Birds, Wendell Berry
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Dylan Thomas
Godric, Frederick Buechner
De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Larry Woiwode
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard


"We watched these films and were transported, amused, stunned, appalled or inspired. Let us know what you think."

Man On The Moon
Paper Moon
Sweet and Lowdown
State and Main
Snatch
O Brother Where Art Thou
You Can Count On Me
Dancer In The Dark
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Don't Look Back
Best In Show
The Usual Suspects
Mifune
Henry and June
Ben Hur
Surviving Picasso
Raising Arizona
Mystery Train
Annie Hall
Life is Sweet
Funny Girl
R. Crumb
Roger and Me
Dead Man Walking
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Casablanca
Fight Club
City of Lost Children
Muriel's Wedding
The Apostle
Shadowlands
A Simple Plan
Secrets and Lies
Waiting For Guffman
Breaking the Waves
Down By Law
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
When We Were Kings
Buena Vista Social Club
Miller's Crossing
The Dreamlife of Angels
Il Postino
Slingblade
Some Like it Hot
The Cruise (1998, Artisan, 76 minutes)
Troublesome Creek, A Midwestern
Cinema Paradiso
Babette's Feast
My Life As A Dog (subtitled version)


Titles from the record collections of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler.

Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl
Tom Waits, Mule Variations
Macy Gray, On How Life Is
Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball
Dead Man Walking, Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture
Don Peris, Ten Silver Slide Trombones
The Wallflowers, Bringing Down The Horse
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
Jim White, No Such Place
Sparklehorse, Good Morning Spider
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Maurizio Pollini, Chopin Etudes Opus 10 and 25
Way to Blue - An Introduction to the Music of Nick Drake
Iris Dement, My Life
John Lee Hooker, Mr. Lucky
Lisa Germano, Happiness
Cocteau Twins, Blue Bell Knoll
Johnny Cash, American Recordings
Bill Frisell, Gone Just Like A Train
Ultra Lounge, Volume Four, Bachelor Pad Royale
Pops Staples, Father Father
Ron Sexsmith, Other Songs
Portishead, Portishead
Victoria Williams, Loose
Jeb Loy Nichols, Lovers Knot
Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
Radiohead, Kid A
Radiohead, OK Computer
The Innocence Mission, Glow
Maria McKee, Maria McKee (First Solo Album}
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
Tom Waits, Closing Time
Emmylou Harris, Elite Hotel
Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen
Elvis Costello, King of America
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
Neil Young, After The Goldrush
Harry Nilsson, Nilsson Sings Newman
Jane Siberry, Bound By The Beauty
Grey Larsen and Andre Marchand, The Orange Tree
Gavin Bryars, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Lloyd Cole, Lloyd Cole
The Complete Early Recordings of Reverend Gary Davis
Daniel Barenboim, Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes
Eddie Arnold, Cattle Call
Nick Lowe, Dig My Mood
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Ron Sexsmith, Whereabouts

Those are are still listed on the site though, right? (I mean, included along with the "newer" additions.)

Also, I remeber L. quoting from a James Salter book in one newsletter. Anyone remember which it was?

oh sorry.
i thought i remember looking for them and they had been taken off.
my bad.
d

I just read an excellent essay on the poet B.H. Fairchild in the Contemporary Poetry Review. It also discusses "Rave On," the poem L&K mentioned loving at the Q&A at St. Elizabeth's last December.

For good measure, here are their other recommendations from that day:

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Innocent When You Dream--the Tom Waits reader
the poet James Wright


This is the perfect place for mentioning any other recommendations you may have heard from them at shows or in conversation. The more the better!

Looking over the list I see one that I have just recently read and enjoyed.
'Ellen Foster' by Kaye Gibbons.

This was not an easy book to read. It was sad an emotionally stirring. It's about a young girl in the south who was raised in abuse and neglect yet somehow found the inner strength to survive. It's thought provoking and gives you a peek at a harsh world through the eyes of an innocent. She was forced to be a grown up when she should have been enjoying the delights of a child.

I've also read 'A Virtuous Woman' by Kaye Gibbons. Her writing style seems to put real-life into words.

I *adore* Ellen Foster. So glad you enjoyed it!

I'm eagerly anticipating reading Ellen's own book when I head up to the States in June.

Have any of you read it yet?

Oh my God, I can't believe they've mentioned Losing Battles! I swear, it's the best book you've never heard of, and the only reason it hasn't been turned into a film is nobody reads Eudora Welty anymore. I'm so excited they've read it and liked it!