Here’s a brief list of things that I recommend you check out. Obviously, I can’t guarantee you’ll like all of them—but if you find that you like a good number of them, you might check out some of the others.
Movies
- Almost Famous
- Amelie
- American Beauty
- Anchorman
- Batman Begins
- Best in Show
- Big Fish
- Bottlerocket
- The Breakfast Club
- Cannibal: The Musical
- Citizen Kane
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Departed
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Fight Club
- Harold and Maude
- Harry Potter
- Juno
- The Life Aquatic, with Steve Zissou
- Lord of the Rings
- Lost in Translation
- The Matrix
- Moulin Rouge
- Office Space
- The Prestige
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Scotland, PA
- Snatch
- Spanglish
- Spirited Away
- Star Wars
- Superbad
- Team America: World Police
- This is Spinal Tap
- Waiting for Guffman
Fiction Books
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- The Beach
- Brave New World
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Fahrenheit 451
- Franny and Zooey
- The Great Gatsby
- Harry Potter
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Screwtape Letters
- Til We Have Faces
Non-Fiction Books
- Blue Like Jazz
- Finding Common Ground
- A Generous Orthodoxy
- The Ragamuffin Gospel
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People