The Obligatory "What I Got for My Birthday" Post

Books:

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie (author recommended by eve_l_incarnata)
The Wild Silence by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (I previously read her book Working Parts)
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite (recommended by somebody or other around here, I forget who)
Americana by Don DeLillo (recommended by inkstained, plus I've read other books by him before)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (recommended by allyscully and others, plus I've read and adore all his other books)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (I previously read her book Memoirs of a Survivor)
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen (recommended by transientdyke and others)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (recommended by chisparoja and about half the population of my friends list, plus I previously read his book News of a Kidnapping)
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (recommended by allyscully)
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer (I previously read his play Equus)

CDs:

The House of Tomorrow by the Magnetic Fields (band recommended by deadinmotion)
Get Ready by New Order (album recommended by deadinmotion, plus I already owned most of their previous ones)
Black Market Music by Placebo (easily one of my favorite bands, so it's shocking I didn't get around to buying this sooner than I did.)