Queenkv’s Brainpickings

Favorite Shows

• Colbert Report
• Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me
• This American Life
• No Reservations
• Top Chef
• Project Runway
• Top Gear
• Morning Becomes Eclectic
• Sonic Spectrum
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• The Office
• Flight of the Conchords
• The Girls Next Door
• Weeds
• Burn Notice

Book List 2008

• The Opposite of Faith by Amy Tan
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Book List 2007

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
• The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
• Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

Book List 2006

• The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
• Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
• The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• Rosie by Anne Lamott
• What’s the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Book List 2005

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Reunion in Death by JD Robb
• Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke : Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan Napier
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
• Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness — Modern History from the Sports Desk by Hunter S. Thompson
• Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
• The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Book List 2004

• The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatson
• Immortal in Death by J. D. Rob
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Is Paris Burning? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.