1. Languages
2. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffeneger
3. “One,”  U2*
4. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
5. “Changes,” Tupac Shakur^W
6. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
7. “Livin’ on a Prayer,” Bon Jovi
8. Sex and the City (the show!)
9. The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
10. Henry and June, Anais Nin

*Follow the link to hear “One,” by U2, or access the complete album, Achtung Baby, here.

1. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Pumpkin Spice Granola
4. 20 under 40
5. Down comforters
6. “Wax & Wire,” * Loch Lomond
7. The New Abs Diet
8. Parks & Recreation

*follow the link to listen to Loch Lomond’s “Wax & Wire” and download their album,  Night Bats, here.

1. Raincoats, Raincoats
2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
3. Francois Truffaut^W and Jean-Pierre Léaud^W
4. “Gloomy Sunday,” * Rezso Seress
5. The short stories of Roald Dahl^W
6. Love and Death
7. Myrna Loy^W and William Powell^W
8. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
9. Parks and Recreation
10. tUnE-yArDs

1. All Quiet on the Western Front,  Erich Maria Remarque
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
4. A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex, Chris Jericho
5. A Time to Kill, (movie and the book), John Grisham
6. The Bible
7. The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Tupac Shakur
8. Me Against the World, Tupac Shakur
9. The Pursuit of Happyness

1. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
2. “Echidna’s Arf” and “Don’t you Ever Wash that Thing?” from Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere
3. Rock My Religion, Dan Graham^W
4. Darkness/Light/Darkness,* Jan Svankmajer^W
5. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (10:00 every night on 640 KFI)
6. Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook, Sally Fallon
7. The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
8. The World is a Beautiful Place,* Lawrence Ferlinghetti
9. The Wonderful World That Almost Was, Paul Thek
10. Mr. Show

Read Greta’s thoughtful explanations in The Magpie Blog!

1. The Sartorialist
2. The Devil Wears Prada
3. Moulin Rouge!
4. Lucky Magazine
5. Hotel Costes CD’s
6. Mad Men
7. Boardwalk Empire
8. The Social Network
9. So You Think You Can Dance
10. Mesrine: Killer Instinct

1. The Food Network: Giada De Laurentiis , Paula Deen, and Ina Garten
2. “Act a Fool,” Lil John
3. Pretty Woman
4. ”The News,” Jack Johnson*
5. My aunt’s tamale pie recipe
6. Egg in a basket^W
7. 80 year old women in my body pump class
8. The Gipsy Kings
9. “Daughters,” John Mayer
10. “Kill them with kindness” (“Just the expression…it’s what I say to myself when I want to punch people.”)

*follow the link to listen!

1. Peter Max Paints America, Peter Max
2. Emily Post’s Etiquette
3. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
4. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
5. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
6. Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
7. Anne of Green Gables (“the book, by Lucy Maude Montgomery AND the Kevin Sullivan films starring Megan Follows”)
8. Running Fence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
9. Casey at the Bat, Ernest Theayer
10. The Gospel of John^W

“The music was the hardest part for me. I ended up choosing Exile because: a) I love the story of its recording; the Stones torn and frayed, on the run and holed up in the south of France, Marianne Faithful lazing around in the same leopard bikini for days, Keith and Anita Pallenberg, and b) the Stone’s best music came out of that time. If Doc Brown pulled up to my house in the DeLorean tomorrow, my first stop would be Villefranche-sur-Mer circa 1971.  Pet Sounds was easier for me because it’s just beautiful–”God Only Knows” brings tears to my eyes, and “Wouldn’t it Be Nice” always makes me smile.”

1. Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen^W
2. Shakespeare^W (“almost anything, esp. King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night“)
3. Philippa Gregory
4. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
5. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
6. Night, Elie Wiesel
7. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
8. The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou
9. The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
10. The Last Lecture
11. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

“I couldn’t contain it to only 10!”

1. David Sedaris
2. Transcendental Meditation
3. Frank’s Wild Years, Tom Waits
4. Woody Allen^W
5. Kristen Wiig
6. Maria Bamford
7. Mitch Hedberg
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Debbie Harry^W
10. Candace Bushnell

Melinda Hill is one funny lady; click on her name, below, to see her website, and read her blog, “Marriage Material!”