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Faculty Favorites - Van Cannon Kirby's

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

Ten Favorite Books

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

• Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger

• The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

• The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

• The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

• And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave

• Junky - William S. Burroughs

• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Ten Favorite Films

• Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders

• Ed Wood - Tim Burton

• All The Real Girls – David Gordon Green

• The Slaughter Rule – Alex Smith

• Drugstore Cowboy - Gus Van Sant

• 28 Days Later – Danny Boyle

• The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan

• Stranger Than Paradise – Jim Jarmusch

• 8 1/2 – Federico Fellini

• Blue Velvet - David Lynch