Books
Fiction
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Symposium by Plato
- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery
Non-fiction
- The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown
- Malcolm X Autobiography
- Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
- The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi
Essays, poems, and other writing
- Spiritual Laws by Ralph Waldo Emerson (essay)
- Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton (essays)
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (poetry)
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (poetry)
- It’s Not Boring to Be Here by Steven Roggenbuck (poetry)
- The Tail End by Wait but Why (essay)
- The Time Before Death by Kabir (poetry)
Movies
- Lord of the Rings
- The Goonies
- The Shining
- Silence of the Lambs
- Get Out
- Parasite
- Her
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Dead Poets Society
- Good Will Hunting
- Edward Scissorhands
- Blindspotting
- Loving Vincent
- Princess Mononoke
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky
- Short Term 12
- Sound of Metal
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Perfect Days
- Interstellar
- Intouchables
- Moonlight
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Jodorowsky’s Dune
