Sarah Wheat
Top Ten Books:
1) Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
2) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
3) House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
4) Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
5) A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
6) The Giver, Lois Lowry
7) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
8) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
9) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
10) The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
After compiling this list, I realized that every single one of these books has been made into a movie except for one. I wonder what that says about my taste.
Top 10 Movies
1) The Green Mile
2) The Sixth Sense
3) Almost Famous
4) The Prestige
5) Momento
6) Catch Me if You Can
7) Up
8) Pulp Fiction
9) Boyhood
10) The Grand Budapest Hotel
Top 10 Albums
1) Manchester Orchestra, I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, 2006
2) Arcade Fire, Funeral, 2004
3) Radiohead, The Bends, 1995
4) Manchester Orchestra, Mean Everything to Nothing, 2009
5) Arcade Fire, Neon Bible, 2007
6) Cage the Elephant, Cage the Elephant, 2009
7) M.I.A. Kala, 2007
8) Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head, 2002
9) Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 2009
10) Cro, Raop, 2012
Top 10 Chicago: Restaurants and Bars
1) Two Dots and a Dash
2) Cantina Laredo Happy Hour (Weekdays from 4-7)
3) The Silver Palm
4) Gilt Bar: The Library
5) Revolution Brewing in Logan Square
6) Mexique
7) Girl and the Goat
8) Kingston Mines
9) The Aviary
10) Blue Fin Sushi
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