Favourite Things

This is where you can look to see if we’ve got the same tastes as each other.

Books:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, A Disaffection by James Kelman, The Shining by Stephen King, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Lanark by Alasdair Gray, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway, Crash by J.G. Ballard, Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith.

Albums:

The Week Never Starts Round Here by Arab Strap, Into the Woods by Malcolm Middleton, If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian, Ballad of the Broken Seas by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Yanqui Uxo by Godspeed You Black Emperor, Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan, Heaven or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins, Live from Folsom by Johnny Cash, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Dog Man Star by Suede, Kick by INXS, Hats by The Blue Nile, The Queen is Dead by The Smiths, Takk by Sigur Ros, Zooropa by U2, Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp, Kid A by Radiohead, Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, Grace by Jeff Buckley, O by Damien Rice, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, Hounds of Love by Kate Bush, Scary Monsters by David Bowie.

Films:

Jaws, Citizen Kane, The Godfather pts.I and II, Sweet Sixteen, The Usual Suspects, Orphans, Ratcatcher, Gregory’s Girl, Apocalypse Now, Mean Streets, Reservoir Dogs, Swingers, Anchorman, My Name is Joe, The Breakfast Club, Dogville, Heat, On the Waterfront, La Haine, Harold and Maude, The 40 Year-Old Virgin.