Recommendations

Books:

• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Conan Doyle
• The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
• Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
• The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
• Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
• The Red Necklace – Sally Gardner
• Carmen – Prosper Mérimée
• Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
• Splintered – A. G. Howard
• Wintersong – S. Jae-Jones
• Eyes Like Stars – Lisa Mantchev
• Monstrous Beauty – Elizabeth Fama
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• Black Ice – Becca Fitzpatrick
• Autobiography of a Geisha – Sayo Masuda
• Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories – various authors
• Saving Maddie – Varian Johnson
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
• Grave Mercy – Robin LeFevers
• Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat
• The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories – Angela Carter
• Sophie’s World – Jostein Gardner
• Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
• Keturah and Lord Death – Martine Leavitt

Poems:

• “God Says Yes To Me” – Kaylin Haught
• “Wild Geese” – Mary Oliver
• “Vincent” by Ashe Vernon
• “Persephone the Wanderer” – Louise Gluck
• “Purple Bathing Suit” – Louise Gluck
• “Vampire” – Ted Hughes
• “Song” – Ted Hughes
• “Emily Bronte” – Ted Hughes
• “After Death” – Christina Rossetti
• “When I am Dead, My Dearest” – Christina Rossetti
• “The Chambered Nautilus” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• “One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII” – Pablo Neruda
• “The Sick Equation” – Brian Patten
• “In the Gold Room, A Harmony” – Oscar Wilde
• “Fragments” – Sappho
• “Sonnet 130” – Shakespeare
• “The Lady of Shallot” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• “She Walks in Beauty” – Lord Byron
• “The Red Wheelbarrow” – William Carlos Williams
• “Tobacco Shop” – Pessoa
• “To His Coy Mistress” – Andrew Marvell
• “Then Time” -Robert Hass

Movies:

• The Grandmaster (2013)
• Somewhere Only We Know (2015)
• Peter Pan (2003)
• Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• The Assassination Bureau (1969)
• The Giver (2014)
• Stoker (2013)
• The Moth Diaries (2011)
• Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Byzantium (2013)
• Clue (1985)
• One Night With The King (2006)
• Murder By Death (1976)
• ChungKing Express (1994)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• Hanna (2011)
• Stardust (2007)
• Our Times (2015)
• Just Get Married/結婚禁行曲 (2015)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
• The Fall (2006)
• Les Intouchables (2011)
• God Help the Girl (2014)
• Shangri-La Suite (2016)
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Phantom Thread (2017)
• Blame (2017)
• Black Swan (2010)
• The Company of Wolves (1984)
• The Lovewitch (2016)
• Crimson Peak (2016)
• Secondhand Lions (2003)

Music groups/artists/composers:

• Olafur Arnalds
• Dario Marianelli
• Hans Zimmer
• John Williams
• Ludovico Einaudi
• Javier Navarrete
• Max Richter
• Phillip Glass
• Giovanni Allevi
• Two Steps From Hell
• Nox Arcana
• 이루마/Yiruma
• Young Heretics
• Until The Ribbon Breaks
• The 1975
• Mother Mother
• Sleeping at Last
• Julie London
• Melody Gardot
• Ivy Levan
• Regina Spektor
• Keaton Henson
• Hozier
• Aurora
• Phildel
• Sky Ferriera
• Zella Day
• Oh Land
• Sóley
• Florence + The Machine
• Fleetwood Mac
• Daughter
• Son Lux
• Mitski
• Transviolet
• Lana Del Rey
• Future Islands