CHALLENGE COMPLETED! WOOOOO!
What the heck, I'm IN!!!!!!! 50 movies in 1 year will be easy as pie. 50 books, though? I seriously doubt it, but I'll give it my best shot.
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I follow my own personal 4 star scale:
★★★★ = Timeless Masterpiece
★★★ = Buy
★★ = Rent/Borrow
★ = Unessential
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ridley182 - 50/50 Books | 211/50 Movies
Books:
Agatha Christie - The Thirteen Problems ★★★
Graham Greene - The Quiet American ★★
Brian Jacques - Redwall ★★
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions ★★★ <Favorite Book - January>
Fahrenheit 451 ★★★★ <Favorite Book - February>
Dubliners ★★★ <Favorite Book - March>
The Pearl ★★
Psycho ★★★★ <Favorite Book - April>
The Old Man and the Sea ★★★
Good Bye, Mr. Chips ★★★
Casino Royale ★★★
The Maltese Falcon ★★★
Animal Farm ★★★
VALIS ★★★ <Favorite Book - May>
James and the Giant Peach ★★
Beowulf (Tolkien's translation) ★★★
Heart of Darkness ★★★ <Favorite Book - June>
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ★★★
The House on Mango Street ★★★
Something Wicked This Way Comes ★★★
Fight Club ★★★
The Stranger ★★★ <Favorite Book - July>
Slaughterhouse Five ★★★
A Raisin in the Sun ★★★
2001: A Space Odyssey ★★★★ <Favorite Book - August>
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ★★★
The King in Yellow ★★
No Country For Old Men ★★ <Favorite Book - September>
Murder on the Orient Express ★★
We Have Always Lived In The Castle ★★
The Red Pony ★★★
Rosemary's Baby ★★★ <Favorite Book - October>
House on Haunted Hill ★★
The Turn of the Screw ★★
Museum of the Weird ★
The Sun Also Rises ★★★ <Favorite Book - November>
Ethan Frome ★★
Notes From Underground ★★★
Miss Lonelyhearts ★★
The Day of the Locust ★★★
The Red Badge of Courage ★★
Lord of the Flies ★★★★ <Favorite Book - December>
Ghosts ★
Pnin ★★
A Christmas Carol ★★★★
Peter Pan ★★★
The Moon is Down ★★★
Hiroshima ★★★
The Crying of Lot 49 ★★
The Fall ★★
Movies:
The Wrong Man ★★
The Third Man ★★★
Hunger Games ★★
Hunger Games: Catching Fire ★★
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones ★
Minority Report ★★
The Wolf of Wall Street ★★★ <Favorite Movie - January>
The Man Who Knew Too Much ★★
The Presence ★
Scrooged ★★
Inland Empire ★★★
Session 9 ★★
The Cooler ★★
Midnight Cowboy ★★★
Psycho ★★★
Chicken Run ★★★
The Blob ★★
Stripped ★★
Thor: The Dark World ★★
Rubber ★
Kiki's Delivery Service ★★★
The Brave Little Toaster ★★
Jacob's Ladder ★★
Lego Movie ★★
Persona ★★★★ <Favorite Movie - February>
Dial M for Murder ★★★
The Wind Rises ★★★
The 39 Steps ★★★
The Son of God ★
The Grand Budapest Hotel ★★★ <Favorite Movie - March>
The Rules of the Game ★★★
Cropsey ★★
Mr. Peabody and Sherman ★★
Jodorowsky's Dune ★★★
World on a Wire ★★★
The Muppets ★★
Muppets: Most Wanted ★★
Grave of the Fireflies ★★★
Captain America: Winter Soldier ★★
Under the Skin ★★
Rio 2 ★
O Brother, Where Art Thou ★★
Finding Vivian Maier ★★★
Only Lovers Left Alive ★★
The Fly ★★★
Oculus ★★
The People Under The Stairs ★★
The Usual Suspects ★★★ < Favorite Movie - April>
The Amazing Spiderman ★★
Drive ★★★
Galapagos Affair ★★
Silver Linings Playbook ★★
Naked Lunch ★★
The Stuff ★
The Fox and the Hound ★★
Sunshine ★★
Stagecoach ★★★ <Favorite Movie - May>
Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple ★★★
Jesus Camp ★★
Godzilla ★★
X-Men: Days of Future Past ★★
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files ★★
Ida ★★
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me ★★
Locke ★★
James and the Giant Peach ★★
Cold in July ★★
Natural Born Killer ★★
Solaris (1972) ★★★
Threads ★★
When The Wind Blows ★★
Paths of Glory ★★★
A Million Ways To Die in the West ★
In the Mouth of Madness ★★
How To Train Your Dragon 2 ★★
Notorious ★★
The Campaign ★
The Horse Soldiers ★★
Three Colors: Blue ★★
Plan 9 From Outer Space ★
The Searchers ★★★★ <Favorite Movie - June>
Manos: The Hands of Fate ★
Snowpiercer ★★
Clue ★★
To Kill A Mockingbird ★★★
Grizzly Man ★★★
V for Vendetta ★★
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ★★
Stalker ★★★
Wayne's World ★
The Mummy ★★
Boyhood ★★★ <Favorite Movie - July>
Young Frankenstein ★★
Enemy ★★
Weekend At Bernie's ★★
The Purge: Anarchy ★
The Holy Mountain ★★
Slumdog Millionaire ★★★
Guardians of the Galaxy ★★
The Raid 2 ★
8 1/2 ★★★
Edge of Tomorrow ★★
Children of the Corn ★
An Autumn Afternoon ★★★
The Road ★★
The Elephant Man ★★★
The Black Cauldron ★★
Autumn Sonata ★★★
Mad Max ★★
The Passion of Joan of Arc ★★★
American Ninja ★
The True Man Show ★★★
My Best Fiend ★★★
Trip to Italy ★★
The Apartment ★★★
The Fisher King ★★
The Long Goodbye ★★
Reefer Madness ★★
Aguirre: The Wrath of God ★★★ <Favorite Movie - August>
V/H/S ★★
The Seventh Seal ★★★
Black Narcissus ★★★
Lost Highway ★★
Lola ★★★
Attack of the Giant Leeches ★
The Wasp Woman ★
Creature From The Haunted Sea ★
House (1977) ★★★
A Bucket of Blood ★★
Spartacus ★★★
Blood Simple ★★★
Last Woman on Earth ★
The Little Shop of Horrors ★★
9/11 ★★★
The Man From Earth ★★
Breathless ★★★
Tusk ★
Ted ★★
Wall Street ★★★
Man of Steel ★★
The Emperor's New Groove ★★
Blue Ruin ★★
9/11: Science and Conspiracy ★★
Eyes Wide Shut ★★★
Pleasantville ★★
12 Years A Slave ★★★
Stand By Me ★★
Following ★
The Boxtrolls ★★
There Will Be Blood ★★★★ <Favorite Movie - September>
After Earth ★
Hellraiser II ★
Fido ★
Ju-on ★★
Warm Bodies ★
Evil Dead (2013) ★
Smiley ★
Sorority House Massacre ★
C.H.U.D. ★
The Possession ★
Cabin Fever: Patient Zero ★
House on Haunted Hill ★★
The Terror ★★
Leprechaun ★
Rosemary's Baby ★★★
The Town that Dreaded Sundown ★★
House II ★
Dementia 13 ★
The Creature of the Black Lagoon ★★
The Lost Boys ★★★
Coraline ★★★
Creepshow 2 ★★
The Fly (1958) ★★
White Zombie ★★
Puppet Master 2 ★
The Devil's Carnival ★
Scream ★★
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 ★
The Conqueror Worm ★★★
Quarantine 2: Terminal ★
Night of the Creeps ★★
Suspiria ★★★
Gone Girl ★★★ <Favorite Movie - October>
The Equalizer ★
The Godfather Part III ★★
Alexander's No Good Day ★★
Unbreakable ★★
She Gods of Shark Reef ★
The Tale of Princess Kaguya ★★★
Lady in Water ★
Interstellar ★★
Jaws ★★★
Nightcrawler ★★★
Rain Man ★★
The Wrestler ★★★
Big Hero 6 ★★
Marathon Man ★★
Dumb and Dumber To ★★
Birdman ★★★
The Social Network ★★★
Encino Man ★
John Wick ★★
Empire of the Sun ★★
Requiem For A Dream ★★
Come and See ★★★★ <Favorite Movie - November>
Fantastic Mr. Fox ★★★
Fear Dot Com ★
Mockingjay Part One ★★
Moon ★★
Liar Liar ★★★ <Favorite Movie - December>
The Hobbit ★★
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