Thursday, January 2, 2025

Textlist 2024

  Textlist 2024 

 

 

Films 

 

  1. Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness by Sam Raimi 

  1. Thor: Love and Thunder by Taiki Waititi 

  1. The Whale by Aaron Aronofsky 

  1. Wakanda Forever by Ryan Coogler 

  1. Weird: The Weird Al Yankovic Story by Eric Apple 

  1. Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick 

  1. Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan 

  1. Babylon by Damien a Galle 

  1. Dune Part Two by Denis Villeneuve 

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese 

  1. The Greatest Night in Pop by Bao Nguyen 

  1. The Holdovers by Alexander Payne 

  1. The Menu by Mark Mylod 

  1. Unfrosted by Jerry Seinfeld 

  1. The Last Duel by Ridley Scott 

  1. Queen Rock Montreal  

  1. Deadpool and Wolverine by Shawn Levy 

  1. Medieval by Pete Jakl 

  1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by Tim Burton 

  1. Wolfs by John Watts 

  1. The Thing by John Carpenter 

Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who 

  1. Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley 

  1. Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Back Streets 

  1. Bruce Springsteen: Road Diary 

  1. The Flash by Andy Mushietti 

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Television Series 

 

 

  1. What If. . .? S2 

  1. Letterkenney S12 

  1. The Crown S5 

  1. Rick and Morty S1 

  1. Vikings S6 

  1. Rick and Morty S 2 

  1. Rick and Morty S3 

  1. Only Murders in the Building S1 

  1. The Handmaid’s Tale S5 

  1. X-Men ‘97 

  1. Shōgun S1 

  1. Peaky Blinders S5 

  1. Masters of the Air 

  1. Ted Lasso S1 

  1. The Boys S.4 

  1. House of the Dragon S2 

  1.  Curb Your Enthusiasm S.10. 

  1. Ted Lasso S2 

  1. Alexander: The Making of a God 

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm S. 11 

  1. Rings of Power S2 

  1. Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War 

  1. Ted Lasso S3 

  1. Good Omens S2 

  1. The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal 

  1. Peaky Blinders S6 

  1. World War 2: From the Frontlines  

  1. Twilight of the Gods by Zack Snyder 

  1. Superpowered: The DC Story 

  1. Those About to Die—1 episode 

  1. The Stand  

  1. The Crown S6 

  1. Get Gotti 

  1. Vikings: Valhalla S1 

  1. Waco: American Apocalypse 

  1. Slow Horses S1 

  1. The Penguin S1 

  1. Rise of Empires: Ottoman S1 

  1. The Gentlemen S1 

  1. Dune: Prophecy S1 

  1. Vikings: Valhalla S2 

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Books 

 

January 1-March 19 

 

  1. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert 

  1. Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life by Bob Procter 

  1. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott 

  1. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King 

  1. How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman  

  1. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White 

  1. Night by Elie Weisel 

  1. My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee 

  1. Viking Age Iceland by Jesse Byock  

  1. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 

  1. When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald 

  1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 

  1. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra 

 

March 20-June 21 

 

  1. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon 

  1.  Rise of the Novel by Leo Damrosch  

  1. The Witch in the Woods by T. H. White 

  1. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy 

  1. Egil’s Saga translated by Bernard Scudder 

  1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

  1. Girl at War by Sara Nocić 

  1. The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal translated by Andrew Wawn 

  1. The Varangian Guard by Charles River Editors 

  1. The Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom 

  1. The Waste Lands by Stephen King 

  1. Why Evil Exists by Charles T. Matthews 

  1. The Viking Spirit by Daniel McCoy 

  1. The Old Testament 

  1. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 

  1. The Return of the Shadow by J.R.R. Tolkien 

 

June 22-Sept 20 

 

  1. Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behaviour by Mark R. Leary 

  1. A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence 

  1.  The Ill-Made Knight by T.H. White 

  1. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 

  1. The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 

  1. Borders by Thomas King 

  1. The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman 

  1. Laxdæla Saga 

  1. Badlands by Robert Kroetsch 

  1. Stella Maria by Cormac McCarthy 

  1. Lost Horizon by James Hilton 

  1. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 

  1. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King 

  1. The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi translated by Terry Gunnel 

  1. Dearly by Margaret Atwood 

  1. The Candle in the Wind by T.H. White 

  1. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 

  1. Obasan by Joy Kogawa 

  1. Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer Adler 

  1. Razor Burn by Emma Rhodes 

  1. Gudrun 1-4 by Lucy Catherine 

  1. Unf*ck Your Anger by Faith G. Harper 

  1. Living the French Revolution and The Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan 

  1. The Saga of the Confederates translated by Ruth C. Ellison 

  1. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway 

 

 

Sept 20-Dec 31 

 

  1. Vikings at War by Kim Hjardar 

  1. Gisli’s Saga translated by Martin S. Regal 

  1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 

  1. City of the Century by Donald L. Miller  

  1. Where Things Touch by Bahar Orang 

  1. The Saga of Ref the Sly translated by George Clark 

  1. D101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Briana Wiest 

  1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 

  1. The Stand by Stephen King 

  1. The Once and Future King by T.H. White 

  1. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert 

  1. The Last Viking by Don Hollway 

  1. Piranesi by Susannah Clark 

  1. Above Ground by Clint Smith 

  1. Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth 

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

  1. The Vinland Sagas 

  1. The Company: the Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire by Stephen R. Bow  

  1. Lonely Planet Paris by Alexis Averbuck 

  1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 

  1. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson 

  1. The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien 

  1. The Pearl by John Steinbeck 

  1. Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues by Michael Sugrue  

  1. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King 

  1. The Wolf Age by Tore Skeie 

  1. The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smiley 

  1. Hemingway’s France: Images of the Lost Generation by Winston Conrad 

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