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This is probably a good idea. Maybe it'll inspire me to finish more books. I'm not even going to bother trying to list all the huge amount of music I listen to though; just see my Last.fm, which I try to keep as complete as possible (I have over 110,000 tracks played on it in slightly over four years of membership).

January

Books:
* Dresden Files vol. 1-3, Jim Butcher (completed)
* Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (almost completed)
* Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

TV:
* Battlestar Galactica, Season 2 (almost finished)
* Caprica
* Human Target
* Castle
* Better Off Ted

Films:
* Avatar (x2)

I have a lot of other books I'm in the middle of but I haven't really read enough of them in this month to make them worth listing. Lots of Pynchon, DeLillo and Gaddis which I need to start back up on. I kind of got side-tracked into "fun" sci-fi as you can probably tell. I see Rye mentioned Italo Calvino; I also need to get some of his work, as well as Nabokov's. Then again I already have far too many books I haven't read yet.
I recommend starting with Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... It is startling amazing. It definitely strikes a note similar to Nabokov's more unusual things. It's somewhat similar in premise to Nabokov's Pale Fire. Without spoiling, (as it says this on the back of the book), If on a Winter's Night a traveler... is basically about the character (only named as He-Reader or in the pages, "You") who is trying to read a book. It's freaking bizarre and fantastic. I'm only about 50 pages in, and I'm already in love, even though it's a bit hard to keep up with.

As for Nabokov, Lolita is the obvious first one to try, but I'd recommend An Invitation to a Beheading if you like dystopian literature.