Authors on my Shelf

My friend Dee tagged me to list the 15 authors on my shelf. She said not to think too long and to list Fifteen authors (poets, and screen-writers not included) who will always stick with me.. So here we go in no specific order,

1. Georgette Heyer
2. Clive Cussler
3. Arthur Conan Doyle
4. J K Rowling
5. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
6. Ta Ra Su
7. Vasudhendra
8. Alistair MacLean
9. Paramahamsa Yogananda
10. James Herriot
11. Sidney Sheldon
12. Stephenie Meyer
13. Anton Chekov
14. Jeffery Archer
15. Sidney Sheldon

When I look at the list, I see a lot more fiction writers..but I guess I have always been a fiction reader :)

If I had some more spots, I would have loved to add Barbara Wood and Rick Riordan.

Have a good evening and it would be nice to hear your comments on this.

Top 5 Classics Movies that I want to see

I was listening to this interview on NPR Radio today morning with the German director Werner Herzog and his "Rogue" Film School. He said that he required all his students to read..loved loved that part. Along with that they were also talking about the movies that he wants his students to see and that sparked of this post.

1) The Treasure of Sierra Madre - it is interesting that WH also mentioned this movie in his list, but recently we have been talking a lot about this movie at work as well. Apparently, there is a dialogue in this movie about Badges. :) So I had been wanting to see this movie and then WH mentions it as well. So, more the reason.

Link to Wikipedia to know more about this "We don't need no Stinking Badges" Dialogue.

2) Tootsie - I have always liked Dustin Hoffman. I think he is an excellent actor and I wanted to see this movie for a long time. Just never got to it :)

3) Suspicion - I have been wanting to see all of Alfred Hitchcock movies after seeing the Movie The Rear Window directed by him and the description of this movie sounds interesting.

4) The Philadelphia Story - Just because this movie has three of my favor tie actors in the cast - Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katherine Hepburn

5) SwingTime - Starring Fred Astaire. I want to see this movie because WH mentioned it in his interview and his description of the movie was so fantastic that I wanted to see it and plus it was in AFI's top 100 Movie list as well.

Some of my Fiction favorites

These are some of my fiction favorites. The list might be too long....So, for now let me put a few here. Will post more later....

Clive Cussler
- Sahara
- Inca Gold
- Treasure
- Night Probe

Henry Denker
- Horowitz and Mrs. Washington
- Error Of judgment
- Kincaid
- Physicians

Georgette Heyer
- cotillion
- These Old Shades
- Masquerader