Jon endorses Veronica Roth's Divergent

We also mention...

Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love

Shilpi Somaya Gowda's The Secret Daughter

Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife

Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children

Edith Wharton

Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones & Butter

Anthony Bourdain meets Ratatouille

Pat Conroy

Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie

Cathy Kelly Home Coming

Erica James Queen of New Beginnings and Garden's of Delight

Lisa Unger Sliver of Truth

Donovan Hohn's Moby Duck

Emma Donoghue's Room

Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad

Disney's Enchanted

Kristin Cashore's Graceling

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives

We also mention...

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics by Mac Carter

Joss Whedon letter to his fans

Marvel entry at Wikipedia

Avengers

Iron Man, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Hulk, Captain America

Natasha Wimmer

Bolano's 2666

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

In case you didn't know, crokinole is the best game in the world

The other September 11

Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer

Julio Florencio Cortázar

Octavio Paz

Milan Kundera

Jules and Jim

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Special guest Mike F. endorses Alexi Zentner's Touch

We also mention...

Peter Guralnick's two volume Elvis bio

Ashley Kahn's The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records

Robert Gordon's Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters

Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart & Soul

Ken Burns' Jazz: A History of America's Music

Stephen Davis' Hammer of The Gods

Jerry Hopkins No One Here Gets Out Alive

Patti Smith's Just Kids

Neil Strauss's The Dirt

Truman Capote In Cold Blood

Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad

Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked and High Fidelity

Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and Nocturnes

Frank Conroy's Body and Soul

Roddy Doyle's The Commitments

The Beatles

Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life

Cynthia Lennon's John

Otis Redding

Pattie Boyd's Wonderful Tonight

Paul Auster

Kevn Patterson's Consumption

Linden MacIntyre's The Bishop's Man

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Jon endorses Kelly Link’s Pretty Monsters

We also mention:

Potboilers -- etymology of

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Different Seasons by Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption the movie, Stand by Me the movie, Apt Pupil the movie, and The Breathing Method)

The Bachman Books (The Long Walk and The Running Man)

The Firm by John Grisham

Moosehead beer featured in The Firm

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Barbra Streisand

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

Harry Potter

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

Slipstream fiction

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

Small Beer Press

kellylink.net

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

We also mention:

Don't Bump The Glump by Shel Silverstein

Bippolo Seed by Dr. Seuss

Stieg Larrson's Fourth Book

Albert Camus' A Happy Death and First Man

Stephen King

David Foster Wallace's new book The Pale King

J.D. Salinger's legacy

Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes

Robert Ludlum's Bourne Franchise

James Bond Novels After Fleming by Gardner, Benson, and Faulks

Tom Clancy's Dead or Alive (with Grant Blackwood)

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Chekov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jules from Pulp Fiction

Terry Gilliam directing Dr. Zhivago

An opera of Doctor Faustus awesomeness

Pushkin

Black Sad

Dreamwork's Puss'n Boots

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Special guest Peter Darbyshire endorses Derek McCormack's The Haunted Hillbilly.

We also mention:

BookNinja and George Murray

The Warhol Gang by Peter Darbyshire

David Cronenberg's Videodrome

Evelyn McHale

Heller's Catch-22

Derek McCormack's Dark Rides

Derek McCormack's Wish Book

Apocalypse Corpse (Peter's update)

Thanks to Thomas Litchford, JenTwist27, Juanita Hernandez, @nathanmhouse, and Ash from English Major Junk Food

Peter Darybshire on Twitter and Peter's website at PeterDarbyshire.com

Jon endorses F.X. Toole's Rope Burns

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We Bought a Zoo

Cars 2

Source Code (the first five minutes)

Natasha Henstridge's Species

Duncan Jones' Moon

Tony Scott's Deja Vu

Fast Five

Legends of the Fist

Hanna (Little Red Riding Hood meets Bourne Identity)

Leon: The Professional

Rachel Weisz's The Whistle Blower

Taken

American: The Bill Hicks Story

Jennifer Lawrence cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games movies

Brad Pitt stars in MoneyBall and The Tree of Life

The Blind Side

Mike Mills' Thumbsucker and Beginners

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum movie adaptations delayed -- again

Everything Must Go based on the Raymond Carver short story Why Don't You Dance? reminds Mark of "The Swimmer" a short story by John Cheever and a movie starring Burt Lancaster

Friends with Benefits (The Armageddon to the Deep Impact of

Emma Stone's Easy A

Ryan Gosling's Drive

Bronson and Pusher

Ryan O'Neal's The Driver

Machine Man: a real-time serial by Max Barry

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole (Jerry Boyd)

Million Dollar Baby

James Sallis' Drive

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Ian Tregellis' Bitter Seeds

We also mention:

Swamplandia by Karen Russell

The Information by James Gleick

Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block from mulhollandbooks.com

Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas

Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer (in NYT) is now a movie

At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing by Library of America

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Hikaru No Go

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (also a movie)

Super 8 trailer

Len Deighton's 'SS-GB' and 'Action Cook Book'

Bitter Seeds at Boing Boing, Bookgasm, Sword and Laser, and Good Reads

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Inglourious Basterds as directed by Alan Moore

William Gibson's Spook Country and Zero History

Justin Cronin The Passage

Battlestar Galactica

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Jon endorses Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer’s Agnes and The Hitman.

We also mention...

Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie.

Franzenfreude

Vida Survey

One Day by David Nicholls

No Strings Attached

Love Actually, Fools Rush In, You've Got Mail

Rear Window

Filmspotting Screw Ball marathon

The Complaint: Sexless Novels by Benjamin Alsup

Sarah Wendell's Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Hannah Pittard’s The Fates Will Find Their Way.

We also mention...

Peter Berg is making a Battleship movie

Trailer for Hesher featuring Joseph Gordon Levitt on The Daily What

The Killing (is an adaptation of TV series from Denmark called Forbrydelsen)

Divergent by Veronica Roth is going to the next Hunger Games

The Day the Movies Died by Mark Harris at GQ.com

Being Erica

Tom Perrotta

Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

Hannah Pittard's profile in Publisher's Weekly

Jon enthusiasm for One Day by Dave Nicholls Episode 23

Bridget Jones and Juliet, Naked

The disappearance of Steve O'Brien

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.