Dr. J's "Top Eight" Lists

Top Books/Authors:

• Nothing Special – Charlotte Beck
  
• Poemas – Pablo Neruda
  
• El amor en los tiempos del cólera – Gabriel García Márquez
  
• Guerra del tiempo – Alejo Carpentier
  
• Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  
• Essential Writings – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• Simple Abundance – Sarah Ban Breathnach
  
• Nickled and Dimed in America – Barbara Ehrenreich
  

Top Beaches:

• Isla Mujeres, Mexico
  
• Fenwick Island, Delaware
  
• Seven Mile Beach, Cayman Islands
  
• Akumal to Tulum corridor, Mexico
  
• Holguín, Cuba
  
• Anguilla, Lesser Antilles
  
• Puerto Escondido, Mexico
  
• Trunk Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

Top Movies:

• A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
  
• Easy Rider, 1969
  
• Deliverance, 1972
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975
  
• Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991
  
• The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
  
• Y Tu Mamá También, 2002
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004
  

Top CDs:

• Buena Vista Social Club - Rubén González, Ry Cooder and other artists
  
• Ballads - Jimmy Buffett
  
• Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
  
• The Best of… - Warren Zevon
  
• Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
  
• Border - Lila Downs
  
• Paulina - Paulina Rubio
  
• American Beauty Rose - The Grateful Dead
  

Top Colleges/Universities:

• Salisbury University
• University of Delaware
• Indiana University
  
• The University of North Carolina, Wilmington
  
• Oxford University
  
• El Colegio de México
  
• Goucher College
  
• Middlebury College