PB's picks for winter break.

Books:

• White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
• Flight, Sherman Alexie
• Cruddy, Lynda Barry
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
• Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
• The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home & Going After Cacciato, Tim O’ Brien
• Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
• Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger
• Old School, Tobias Wolff
• Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

Music (albums):

• Merriweather Post Pavillion, Animal Collective
• Two Suns, Bat for Lashes
  
• Blood Bank, Bon Iver
• Us, Brother Ali
• My Maudlin Career, Camera Obscura
• Bitte Orca, The Dirty Projectors
• Album, Girls
  
• Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear
• Blood of Man, Mason Jennings
  
• A Strange Arrangement, Mayer Hawthorne
  
• Middle Cyclone, Neko Case
• Never Better, P.O.S.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix
• Far, Regina Spektor
• It’s Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies (listed with director):

• Precious, Lee Daniels
• The Road, John Hillcoat
• A Serious Man, Joel & Ethan Coen
• Up, Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
• Up in the Air, Jason Reitman