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Faculty Favorites - Bruce Kirby's

This list is a selection of Bruce Kirby's favorites, not his list of best books and films and recordings. It is a list is of books, films and recordings he has enjoyed most.

Ten Favorite Books

  • The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Complete Poems and Plays - T. S. Eliot

  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken

  • Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • A Passage to India - E. M. Forster

  • Van Til's Apologetic - Greg Bahnsen

  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

  • Watership Down - Richard Adams

Ten Favorite Films

  • Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola

  • Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen

  • La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini

  • The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming

  • The Elephant Man - David Lynch

  • A Room with a View - James Ivory

  • A Passage to India - David Lean

  • Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders

  • Babette's Feast - Gabriel Axel

  • Amadeus - Milos Forman

Ten Favorite Recordings (Music List)

  • The Four Seasons - Vivaldi / Nigel Kennedy & the English Chamber Orchestra

  • Chopin, The Nocturnes - Frederic Chopin / Maria Joao Pires

  • Boatman’s Call - Nick Cave

  • Goldberg Variations - J. S. Bach / Glenn Gould

  • Time Out - the Dave Brubeck Quartet

  • The Complete Gershwin - George Gershwin / the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

  • Biograph - Bob Dylan

  • The Beatles, 1967-1970 - The Beatles

  • Vespers - Sergei Rachmaninoff / the Robert Shaw Festival Singers

  • New Moon Daughter - Cassandra Wilson

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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