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Faculty Favorites - Michael Strawbridge's

This list is a selection of Michael Strawbridge's favorites, not his list of best. It is a list is of books, films and music he has enjoyed most.

Ten Favorite Books

• Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - Kurt Vonnegut

• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

• The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor

• Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor

• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

• Islands in the Stream - Ernest Hemingway

• The City of God - St. Augustine

• The Story of Civilization - Will and Ariel Durant

• A History of the American People - Paul Johnson

• Our Reasonable Faith - Herman Bavinck

Ten Favorite Films

• The original Star Wars trilogy - George Lucas

• Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Annie Hall - Woody Allen
• The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
• Life is Beautiful - Roberto Benigni
• Horse Feathers - The Marx Brothers
• Better Off Dead - Savage Steve Holland
• The Civil War - Ken Burns
• Don't Look Back - D.A. Pennebaker
• No Direction Home - Martin Scorsese

Ten Favorite Recordings (Music List)

• Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
• The Beatles - The Beatles
• Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
• Golden Age of Radio - Josh Ritter
• Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg and Wilco
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
• Transistor Radio - M. Ward
• Killing Floor - Vigilantes of Love
• High, Low and in Between - Townes Van Zandt
• Low - Chad Gray