Textlist 2022
Movies and Shows
Movies
The Power of the Dog by Jane
Campion
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Green Knight
The Bad Guys
The Northman by Robert Eggers
Liquorice Pizza by PT Anderson
Nightmare Alley by Guillermo
del Toro
Prey by Dan Trachtenberg
Tenet by Christopher Nolan
The Batman Matt Reeves
All Quiet on the Western Front by Edward Berger
A Christmas Story Christmas
Shows
Titans S3
Archer S12
Dopesick
Letterkenney S9 and S10
Pam + Tommy
Moon Knight
Shorsey
Peaky Blinders s3
The Boys S3
Kids in the Hall
Westworld Season 4
The Sandman 1
Handmaid’s Tale 4
Rings of Power
Peacemaker
January 1-March 19
1. Grendel by John Gardner
2. Kraven’s Last Hunt by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck
3. Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
4. Welcome to My Panic by Billie Joe Armstrong
5. Speaking Truth to Power Through Stories and Song by Tom Morrell
6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. Macbeth by Jo Nesbø
8. Holes by Louis Sachar
9. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
10. Lost Connections Johann Hari
11. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
12. The Socratic Express by Eric Weiner
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
14. Tolkien by Raymond Edwards
15. After Virtue by Alisdair McIntyre
16. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
17. Uther by Jack Whyte
18. The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
March 20-June 21
19.
Where
The Blood Mixes by Kevin
Loring
20.
A
Doll’s House by Henrik
Ibsen
21.
Watership
Down by Richard
Adams
22.
Salinger
by David Shields and Shane Salerno
23.
Sisters
Brothers by Patrick
deWitt
24.
Never
Cry Wolf by Farley
Mowat
25.
The
Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
26.
War
of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
27.
The
Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
June 22-Sept 20
28. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
29. The Nature of Middle Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien
30. The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
31. The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlison
32. Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
33. Beyond The North Wind by Christopher McIntosh
34. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
35. “The Dead” by James Joyce
36. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
37. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
38. The Prose Edda
39. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
40. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
41. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Fankl
42. The Road Middle-Earth by Tom Shippey
43. The Winter Wives by Linden MacIntyre
44. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
45. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
46. The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
48. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
49. Alexander the Great and His Time by Agnes Savill
50. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sept 20-Dec 31
51.
The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 by J.R.R.
Tolkien
52.
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu
Suzuki
53.
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by
Tom Shippey
54.
Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to
Critical Thinking by Steven Novella
55.
Three
Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
57.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by
Tom Stoppard
58.
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by
Aristotle
59.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric
Maria Remarque
60.
The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
61.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by
Mary Shelley
62.
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
63.
All
Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
64.
Life if Pi by Yann Martel
65.
Where The Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring
66.
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
67.
Night by Elie Weisel
68.
Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
69.
Dune by Frank Herbert
70.
The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
71.
Shogun by James Clavell
72.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall
Kimmerer
73.
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
74.
The Saga of Ragnar Loodbrok translated by
Ben Waggoner
75.
Inferno by Chris Claremont and Louise
Simonson