List #45: Countdown to the New Year [1 Day to Go!]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

So, behold: a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.


Part 25: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letter "Z"

Z
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz   Rec. #184
Zahn, Steve   List #28
Zeffirelli, Franco   List #26
Zeller, Brian   (List #29)
Zien, Chip   Rec. #296
Zindel, Paul   Rec. #16, List #2, List #5, List #7, List #11, FF: Rec. #16
Zissou, Steve   QfFC #32

Zuleika Dobson   Rec. #96, FF: Rec. #96, (FF: Rec. #85)
Zuravleff, Mary Kay  Rec. #46, Personal Wreck #4, Rec. #174, FF: Rec. #46, FF: Rec. #174

List #45: Countdown to the New Year [2 Days to Go]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

So, behold: a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.


Part 24: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letters "X" and "Y"

X
The X-Files   (Rec. #212), (FF: Rec. #212)


Y
Yankovic, "Weird Al"   (Rec. #155), (FF: Rec. #155)
The Year of Secret Assignments   Rec. #330

You Can't Take It with You   Rec. #327, List #42
You Instead   Rec. #322
You Must Be This Happy to Enter   Rec. #245, (Rec. #314), (FF: Rec. #73)
Young Adult   List #29, Rec. #311, QfFC #44

Young @ Heart   Personal Wreck #1

List #45: Countdown to the New Year [3 Days to Go]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

So, behold: a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.


Part 23: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letter "W"

W
Waddell, Justine   Rec. #49, (Rec. #121), Personal Wreck #3, FF: Rec. #49, Rec. #354
Wag the Dog   Rec. #116
Wainwright, Martha   Rec. #187, FF: Rec. #187, Rec. #362
Wainwright, Rufus   (Rec. #206), (FF: Rec. #206)

Wait Until Dark   Rec. #26, (Rec. #47), (Rec. #97), (Rec. #132), Personal Wreck #4, (Rec. #205), (FF: Rec. #205), (FF: Rec. #132), QfFC #9, FF: Rec. #26, List #41, (FF: Rec. #47)
Walken, Christopher   (Rec. #250), (FF: Rec. #250)
Walker, Ally   List #28
Walker, Polly   Rec. #104, FF: Rec. #104
The Walking Dead   (Rec. #267)
Wallace, David Foster   (Rec. #325)
Wallach, Eli   List #28
War for the Oaks   Rec. #291
Warrender Chase   Rec. #13, FF: Rec. #13
The Washington Story   Rec. #295

Wasilewski, Audrey   List #29
Wasserstrom, Jill   Rec. #82
Waters, Alice   (Rec. #39)
Waterston, Sam   List #28
Waugh, Evelyn   Rec. #217
The Way We Live Now   List #13, FF: List #13, (Rec. #354)
Wayne, John   (Rec. #10)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle   (Rec. #134), (FF: Rec. #134)
Webb, Clifton   Rec. #193, FF: Rec. #193
Weber, Steven   Rec. #123
Weight   Rec. #272, (Rec. #298), (Rec. #302), (Rec. #349)
Weisz, Rachel   List #28, Rec. #304
Welch, Florence   Rec. #187, FF: Rec. #187, Rec. #362
Welch, Raquel   Rec. #215, FF: Rec. #215
Welcome to My Planet (Where English Is Sometimes Spoken)   (Rec. #93), Rec. #338, (FF: Rec. #93)

Welcome to Night Vale   Rec. #303, List #38
West, Mae   (Rec. #122), (List #5), (FF: Rec. #122)
West, Rebecca   Rec. #224
The West Wing [book]   Rec. #207, FF: Rec. #207
The West Wing [television]   (Rec. #236)
What a Way to Go!   Rec. #175
What Fresh Hell Is This?   (see Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?)
What's Up, Doc?   Rec. #38, FF: Rec. #38, List #42
Wharton, Edith   (List #13), (FF: List #13)
Whedon, Jed   Rec. #90, FF: Rec. #90
Whedon, Joss   Rec. #90, FF: Rec. #90, List #36, Rec. #331, SSoW #4
Whedon, Zach   Rec. #90, FF: Rec. #90
Wheeler, Susan   Rec. #268, FF: Rec. #268
When the Messenger Is Hot   Rec. #73, (Rec. #151), List #5, (Rec. #245), (Rec. #314), FF: Rec. #73

When Will There Be Good News?   (Rec. #3), Rec. #192, (FF: Rec. #137), (FSoM #14), (Rec. #270), (Rec. #282), (Rec. #301), FF: Rec. #192, (List #35), (FF: Rec. #69), (FF: Rec. #3)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang   (Rec. #111), (FF: Rec. #111)
White Swan, Black Swan   Rec. #53, (Rec. #151), FF: Rec. #53
Whites   List #32
Whitman, Walt   Personal Wreck #3
Whittaker, Promise   Rec. #46, FF: Rec. #46
Whittington, Nora Jane   Rec. #25, FF: Rec. #25
Who's the Boss?   (Rec. #263)
Wiest, Dianne   Rec. #20, FF: Rec. #20
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself   Rec. #108, (Rec. #112), Personal Wreck #1, (FF: Rec. #112), List #29
Wild Strawberries   (Gift Idea #11)
Wilde, Oscar   (Rec. #30), (Rec. #98), Rec. #148, List #7, (FF: Rec. #98), FF: Rec. #148, (Rec. #313), Rec. #336, (FF: Rec. #30)

Wilder, Billy   (Rec. #106), (List #1), Rec. #194, (FF: Rec. #106), FF: Rec. #194
Wilder, Thornton   Rec. #78
Wilhelm, Kate   Rec. #111, List #4, FF: List #4, FF: Rec. #111
Wilkins, Lotty   Rec. #113
Wilkinson, Tom   List #28
Williams, Michelle   Rec. #143
Williams, Robin   Rec. #265
Willis, Connie   Rec. #100, (Personal Wreck #2), Personal Wreck #5, List #8, (Rec. #208), Gift Idea #1, Rec. #218, FF: Rec. #100, Rec. #248, (FF: Rec. #162), Rec. #266, (FF: Rec. #208), FF: Rec. #218, List #33, Rec. #355, List #44
The Willowdale Handcar   Rec. #207, FF: Rec. #207
Wills, Muley   Rec. #82
Wilson, Owen   Rec. #189, FF: Rec. #189, (Rec. #314)
Wilson, Ruth   Rec. #178, FF: Rec. #178, (List #26)
Wimsey, Lord Peter   (Rec. #60), (FF: Rec. #60)
Winslet, Kate   (Rec. #91), (Rec. #288)
Winslow, Annabel   Rec. #201
Winstead, Mary Elizabeth   Rec. #329
Winterbottom, Michael   Rec. #112, FF: Rec. #112

Winterson, Jeanette   Rec. #66, (Rec. #79), Personal Wreck #4, (Rec. #243), Rec. #272, (Rec. #298), Rec. #302, Rec. #349, (FF: Rec. #79)
Wire in the Blood   (Rec. #210), List #16, (FF: Rec. #210)
Wit   Rec. #132, (Rec. #265), FF: Rec. #132
The Witch of Exmoor   Personal Wreck #4, Rec. #247
Witherspoon, Reese   Rec. #179
Wives and Daughters   (List #7), Personal Wreck #3, List #13, FF: List #13, (Rec. #290), Rec. #354
The Wizard of Oz   (Rec. #226)
Wodehouse, P.G.   Rec. #24, (Rec. #31), (Rec. #44), (Rec. #54), (Rec. #68), (Rec. #70), Rec. #136, Rec. #153, List #7, Rec. #204, (FF: Rec. #70), Rec. #254, Gift Idea #7, Rec. #289, (Rec. #297), Rec. #318, List #32, List #33, QfFC #23, QfFC #35, (FF: Rec. #68), (FF: Rec. #31), List #43, List #44
The Woman in White   Rec. #121, (Gift Idea #4), (Rec. #354)
Wonderfalls   Rec. #2, (Rec. #49), (Rec. #99), List #1, List #8, FF: Rec. #2, (FF: Rec. #49), (Rec. #233), List #24, List #29, QfFC #14, QfFC #54

Wood, Elijah   Rec. #329
Woodard, Alfre   Rec. #92
Woolf, Virginia   (Rec. #66), Rec. #98, List #7, (Rec. #181), (FF: Rec. #181), FF: Rec. #98
Woolrich, Cornell   Rec. #47, List #5, FF: Rec. #47
Wooster, Bertie   (Rec. #24), (Rec. #136), Rec. #153, (List #7), Rec. #254, (Rec. #289), QfFC #35, List #43
Worden, Shara   Rec. #187, FF: Rec. #187
Wright, Teresa   List #30
The Wrong Mans   List #32
The Wuggly Ump   Rec. #207, FF: Rec. #207
Wyler, William   Rec. #205, FF: Rec. #205
Wyman, Jane   List #30

List #45: Countdown to the New Year [4 Days to Go]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

So, behold: a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.


Part 22: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letter "V"

V
Valentino: The Last Emperor   (Rec. #223)
Vallee, Rudy   Rec. #17, FF: Rec. #17
Valmont   (List #16)

Van Dyke, Dick   Rec. #175, List #28
Vanity Fair   (Rec. #354)
Veronica Mars   (Rec. #101), Rec. #168, (Rec. #182), (Rec. #225), FF: Rec. #168, (FF: Rec. #182)
Vertigo   (Rec. #145)
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip   Rec. #18, (Rec. #41), List #8, List #11, List #14, FF: Rec. #18, (FF: Rec. #41)
The Vicar of Dibley   (List #16)
Victory Over Japan   (Rec. #25), Rec. #324, (FF: Rec. #25)

Virago Modern Classics   QfFC#12, Gift Idea #11
Visser, Margaret   Rec. #63, (Rec. #146), (Rec. #226)
Viva Blackpool   (see Blackpool)
"Viva Las Vegas"   (Rec. #267)
Vivacious Lady   List #42
Von Arnim, Elizabeth   Rec. #61, Rec. #113, List #7, Personal Wreck #1, (Rec. #181), (FF: Rec. #181), FF: Rec. #61, QfFC #41
Von Hardenberg, Friedrich   Rec. #164
Vonnegut, Kurt   (Rec. #41), (Rec. #142), Personal Wreck #3, (FF: Rec. #142), Rec. #335, (FF: Rec. #41)

Vowell, Sarah   Rec. #32, (Rec. #76), (Rec. #188), Rec. #213, (FF: Rec. #188), FF: Rec. #32, (FF: Rec. #76)

List #45: Countdown to the New Year [5 Days to Go]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

So, behold: a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.


Part 21: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letter "U"

U
Ullman, Tracey   (Rec. #81)

Ultraviolet   Rec. #212, List #16, (Rec. #255), FF: Rec. #212, List #34

Uncertain Voyage   Rec. #167, Personal Wreck #1, FF: Rec. #167
Uncle Dynamite   Rec. #204, (Rec. #254), (Gift Idea #7), (Rec. #318), List #43
The Uncommon Reader   Rec. #260, (QfFC #8)
Unconscious   (see Inconscientes)
The Undertaker's Gone Bananas   Rec. #16, List #2, List #5, List #7, List #11, List #14, List #24, FF: Rec. #16

The United States of Tara   Personal Wreck #4, Rec. #351
Unless   (List #7)
The Unprofessionals   (Rec. #6), (FF: Rec. #6)
The Unstrung Harp   Rec. #207, FF: Rec. #207
(Untitled)   List #15, List #24
[The Untitled Book]   Rec. #273
The Unusuals   Rec. #173, List #15, (Rec. #249), FF: #173

Up in the Air   (Rec. #22), (FF: Rec. #22)
The Up Series   Rec. #33, Personal Wreck #3, FF: Rec. #33
Urich, Robert   Rec. #263
Les Urnes Utiles   Rec. #352
"Us Amazonians"   Rec. #259, FF: Rec. #259
The Utter Zoo   Rec. #352

List #45: Countdown to the New Year [6 Days to Go]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

So, behold: a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.


Part 20: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letter "T"

T
T in the Park Festival   Rec. #322
Take the Cannoli   Rec. #32, (Rec. #76), (Rec. #213), (FF: Rec. #213), FF: Rec. #32, (FF: Rec. #76)
Talbot, Fleur   Rec. #13, FF: Rec. #13
A Tale of Two Cities   (List #7)

Tales of the City   Rec. #67, List #3, Personal Wreck #2, (Rec. #211), FF: Rec. #67, (Rec. #294), (Rec. #316)
(see also Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City)
Tales of the Jazz Age   (Gift Idea #4)
Talking Heads   (Rec. #73), (Rec. #107), (FF: Rec. #73)
Tamara Drewe   Rec. #271
Tamblyn, Amber   Rec. #173, FF: #173
Taming of the Shrew   List #16
Tancharoen, Maurissa   Rec. #90, FF: Rec. #90
Tanen, Sloane   Rec. #77
Tarne, Martyn   Rec. #102, FF: Rec. #102
Tarsem   FF: Rec. #49
Tartt, Donna   (Rec. #286)
Tate, Catherine   Rec. #81, Rec. #178, FF: Rec. #178
Tautou, Audrey   Rec. #300

Taylor, Holland   Rec. #59, Rec. #253, FF: Rec. #253, FF: Rec. #59
Taylor, Jason   Rec. #72, (Rec. #138), (FF: Rec. #138), FF: Rec. #72, QfFC #52
Taylor, Lili   Rec. #296
Taylor, Mary Kennedy   Rec. #296
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood   FSoM #13
Taylor, Steve   List #16
Taymor, Julie   Rec. #334
Teachers   List #16, List #34
The Tempest   (Rec. #282)
Tennant, David   (Rec. #133), Rec. #178, List #16, FF: Rec. #178, Rec. #267
Tennant, Geoffrey   Rec. #127, FF: Rec. #127
Terkel, Studs   (Rec. #8), (FF: Rec. #8)
Territory   Rec. #10, (Rec. #24), (Rec. #53), (Rec. #291), (FF: Rec. #53)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles   Personal Wreck #3, (Rec. #354)

Tex and Molly in the Afterlife   Rec. #142, List #5, FF: Rec. #142, (Rec. #359)
Tey, Josephine   (Rec. #37), Rec. #75, Rec. #200, Rec. #228, FF: Rec. #75
Thackeray, William Makepeace   (Rec. #40)
Thank You for Smoking   Rec. #87, (Rec. #103), (Rec. #116), FF: Rec. #87
That Mitchell and Webb Look   List #9, List #32
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers   Rec. #130
Then We Came to the End   (Rec. #51), (FF: Rec. #51)
Theron, Charlize   Rec. #311
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"   (Rec. #267)
"They Don't Know"   (Rec. #259), (FF: Rec. #259)
The Thick of It   List #32
The Thin Man (book)   Rec. #234, FSoM #5, (Rec. #319)

The Thin Man (film)   (Rec. #219), (Rec. #229), (FF: Rec. #219), Rec. #319
Thirkell, Angela   Rec. #40, (Rec. #61), (Rec. #134), List #5, (FF: Rec. #134), Rec. #240, FF: Rec. #40, (FF: Rec. #61), QfFC#12, QfFC #31, (Rec. #344), QfFC #43, QfFC #50
35 Up  Rec. #33, FF: Rec. #33, (SSoW #2), Gift Idea #11
This American Life   (Rec. #32), (Rec. #171), (Rec. #188), (FF: Rec. #188), (FF: Rec. #32)
This Life   List #16
Thomas, Rob   (Rec. #101), Rec. #182, FF: Rec. #182
Thompson, Emma   Rec. #132, Rec. #265, FF: Rec. #132
Thompson, Scott   List #29
Thoms, Tracie   List #29
Thorne, Darrell   (Rec. #299)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)   Personal Wreck #2, Rec. #208, (FF: Rec. #96), FF: Rec. #208

Tied Up in Tinsel   FSoM #17, List #27
Tierney, Gene   Rec. #193, (Rec. #284), FF: Rec. #193
Tiersen, Yann   Rec. #300
Tinti, Hannah   Rec. #1, FF: Rec. #1
To Be or Not to Be   List #42
To Say Nothing of the Dog   Rec. #100, (Rec. #162), List #8, (Rec. #208), (Gift Idea #1), (Rec. #218), FF: Rec. #100, (Rec. #248), (FF: Rec. #162), (Rec. #266), (FF: Rec. #208), (FF: Rec. #218), (Rec. #355)
To Sir, With Love   (Rec. #149)
To the Lighthouse   (List #7)
Toksvig, Sandi   SSoW #5
Told by an Idiot   Rec. #181, (Rec. #224), FF: Rec. #181, (QfFC #6), (Rec. #346)

Tolliver, Michael (Mouse)   Rec. #67, FF: Rec. #67
Tom Jones   (Rec. #354)
Tomei, Marisa   Rec. #59, List #1, FF: Rec. #59
Tomlin, Lily   (Rec. #162), (FF: Rec. #162)
Tonight You're Mine   (see You Instead)
Top Hat   List #20, FF: List #20
Topper   List #42
Torres, Gina   List #29
Touching Evil   (Rec. #14), List #16, (Rec. #290), (FF: Rec. #14)
The Tournament   Rec. #12, (Rec. #24), (Rec. #30), (Rec. #98), FF: Rec. #12, (FF: Rec. #98), (Rec. #286), (Rec. #313), (FF: Rec. #30)
Tovey, Russell   Rec. #115, FF: Rec. #115
The Towers of Trebizond   QfFC #6, Rec. #346
Tracy, Spencer   (Rec. #94), Rec. #229
Tremayne, Diane   Rec. #284
Trillian   Rec. #198

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story   Rec. #112, List #2, Personal Wreck #5, FF: Rec. #112, (Rec. #292), (FF: Rec. #261)
Trollope, Anthony   (List #13), (FF: List #13), (Gift Idea #11)
Tropical Brainstorm   Rec. #259, FF: Rec. #259
Trouble in Paradise   List #20, FF: List #20, List #42
The Trouble with Harry   Rec. #145, List #6, List #12, (Rec. #225), FF: List #6, (MNID #1), List #30
True Blood   (Rec. #212), (FF: Rec. #212)
True Grit   (Rec. #10)
Truffaut, François   List #17
Trust   Rec. #165, Personal Wreck #5, List #12, FF: Rec. #165, (Rec. #323), QfFC #47
Tucci, Stanley   Rec. #232, (List #21)
Tumblr   List #39
The Tuning Fork   Rec. #352
Tunney, Robin   Rec. #29
Twentieth Century   List #42
28 Up   Rec. #33, FF: Rec. #33, (SSoW #2)
21 Up   Rec. #33, FF: Rec. #33, (SSoW #2)
2 Days in Paris   List #15

2D Goggles   Rec. #269
Tykwer, Tom   Rec. #71, FF: Rec. #71
Tyler, Jaye   Rec. #2, FF: Rec. #2
Tyler, Karen   QfFC #54