Tara E. Van Geons

The 100 Essential Books You Should Have Read in College

100 Books to Read Before You Die

Van Geons's Fav Movies

(Many of my favorite movies are controversial or philosophical in nature. Some of them are films that are very heavy in content and wonderful films to use as a springboard for classroom discussion.)

• Being John Malkovich
• Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
• A Clockwork Orange
• Citizen Kane
• The Matrix
• The Truman Show
• The Invention of Lying
• The Pianist
• Life is Beautiful
• Amelie
• Hotel Rwanda
• Run, Lola, Run
• The Young Victoria
• American Beauty
• Memento 
• Groundhog's Day
• Psycho
• Edward Scissorhands
• Big Fish
• Nosferatu
• Slumdog Millionaire
• American History X
• Fight Club
• Twelve Monkeys
• A.I.
• Laramie Project

Interesting Documentaries

• To Die in Jerusalem
• Waiting for Armageddon 
• Religulous
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• The Yes Men

Guilty Pleasure Movies

• Heathers
• Jawbreakers 
• Dodgeball
• The Other Boylen Girl 
• Wedding Crashers
• The Princess Bride 
• The Wall
• Tommy
• Seven Year Inch
• Finding Nemo
• Monsters, Inc.
• The Big Lebowski
  

Van Geons's Fav Books

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

•  Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster

• The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare (1565)

• Night by Elie Wiesel (1956)

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)- Mexico

• Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

•  She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

• All Things Harry Potter

• Chocolat by Joanne Harris

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Recently Read:

• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

• The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen

• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  

• Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

• The Secrets of Eden by Chris Bojahlian
  

• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

• Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming by Rheta Grimsley Johnson