Brain Candy

Favorite Shows

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

Book List 2014

• After Dark by Haruki Murakami
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• Born in Death by J.D. Robb
• Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl.

Book List 2013

• Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb
• Bleach, Vol. 28: Baron’s Lecture Full-Course (Bleach #28) by Tite Kubo
• Bleach, Volume 27: Goodbye, Halcyon Days by Tite Kubo
• Blood+, Vol. 02 (Blood+, #2) by Asuka Katsura
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
• Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
• The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik.
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower #7) by Stephen King
• Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower #6) by Stephen King

Book List 2012

• I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
• A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years #3) by Gregory Maguire
• Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower #5) by Stephen King
• The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Terminal Policy by Liam McCurry
• Momofuku by David Chang, Peter Meehan
• Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mays
• The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
• Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
• A Race to Splendor by Ciji Ware
• Rise Of Sea-Landers by Eve Evangelista
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Book List 2011

• The View From No. 13 People’s Street by Aline Mosby
• Sideways by Rex Pickett
• Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
• Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
• Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
• My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud’Homme
• Creation in Death by J.D. Robb
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
• Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
• The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader

Book List 2010

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
• Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
• THE UNPOPULAR MR. LINCOLN: The Story of America’s Most Reviled President by Larry Tagg
• Blood + Adagio Volume 2 by Kumiko Suekane
• When You’re Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
• Son of Witch by Gregory Maguire
• Marley and Me by John Grogan
• Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Blood+ Adagio 1 by Kumiko Suekane

Book List 2009

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
• Superman: Red Son Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Kilian Plunkett, Andrew Robinson and Walden Wong
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Wheel of Nuldoid by Russ Woody
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

Book List 2008

• Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image by Anne Sebba
• The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1: The Short Happy Life Of The Brown Oxford by Phillip K. Dick
• The Eye of the Storm by Gene Robinson
• 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.