Lists

Current Top Ten

Fiction

  1. The Horses Mouth, Joyce Cary
  2. Scumbler, William Wharton
  3. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
  4. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  5. The Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
  6. White Noise, Don Delillo
  7. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
  8. Love in the Age of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  9. Victory, Joseph Conrad
  10. A Place on Earth, Wendell Berry
  11. The Master, C.P. Snow

 

Art

  1. Ryoanji Temple kare sansui garden, Kyoto, Japan
  2. The Rembrandts in the Frick Gallery, NYC
  3. Cambodian Avalokiteshvara Figure, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  4. Zubarans at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
  5. Kouros Figure, Metropolitan Museum, NYC
  6. Room with Giacometti and Newmans' at MOMA, NYC
  7. Raphael's Alda Madonna in National Gallery, Washington
  8. Rodin clay sketches, Metropolitan, NYC
  9. Rogier van der Weyden, Crucifixion, Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

 

Non-fiction

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  2. Vision and Painting, Norman Bryson
  3. The Seven Headed Dragon River, Peter Matthiesen
  4. Portrait of Giacometti, James Lord
  5. Art and Illusion, E. H. Gombrich
  6. Seeing is Forgetting the Name ..., Lawrence Weschler
  7. Contrarian Investing, Gallea and Patalon
  8. Cubism and Twentieth Century Art, Robert Rosenblum
  9. Zen Gardens, Tom Wright
  10. Deep Blues, Robert Palmer

Music

  1. The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonius Monk
  2. The Complete Recordings of Robert Johnson
  3. Sun Records, The Blues Years
  4. James Brown, Star Time
  5. "Death and the Maiden",  Franz Schubert
  6. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
  7. Giant Steps, John Coltrane
  8. The Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols

Scott Sherk