movies to watch

• all the president's men (1976; alan j. pakula)
• star wars saga (1977-2017; george lucas, irvin kershner, richard marquand, j.j abrams, gareth edwards, rian johnson)
• corvette summer (1978; matthew robbins)
• ordinary people (1980; robert redford)
• the outsiders (1983; francis ford coppola)
• sixteen candles (1984; john hughes)
• the breakfast club (1985; john hughes)
• back to the future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990; robert zemeckis)
• st. elmo's fire (1985; joel schumacher)
• pretty in pink (1986; howard deutch)
• stand by me (1986; rob reiner)
• dirty dancing (1987; emile ardolino)
• heathers (1988; michael lehmann)
• dead poets society (1989; peter weir)
• the little mermaid (1989; ron clements and john musker)
• beauty and the beast (1991; gary trousdale, kirk wise)
• aladdin (1992; ron clements and john musker)
• the lion king (1994; roger allers, rob minkoff)
• pocahontas (1995; mike gabriel, eric goldberg)
• the hunchback of notre dame (1996; gary trousdale, kirk wise)
• hercules (1997; ron clements and john musker)
• anastasia (1997; don bluth, gary goldman)
• good will hunting (1997; gus van sant)
• mulan (1998; barry cook, tony bancroft)
• tarzan (1999; kevin lima, chris buck)
• atlantis: the lost empire (2001; gary trousdale, kirk wise)
• lilo and stitch (2002; chris sanders, dean deblois)
• treasure planet (2002; ron clements and john musker)
• brother bear (2003; aaron blaise, robert walker)
• the dark knight (2008; christopher nolan)
• the princess and the frog (2009; ron clements and john musker)
• inception (2010; christopher nolan)
• tangled (2010; nathan greno, byron howard)
• life of pi (2012; ang lee)
• interstellar (2014; christopher nolan)
• big hero 6 (2014; don hall, chris williams)
• moana (2016; ron clements, john musker)
• dunkirk (2017; christopher nolan)

books to read (*a lot of these are rereads)

• metamorphosis (1915; franz kafka)
• the crucible (1953; arthur miller)
• fahrenheit 451 (1953; ray bradbury)
• to kill a mockingbird (1960; harper lee)
• the perks of being a wallflower (1999; steven chbosky)
• life of pi (2001; yann martel)
• the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (2003; mark haddon)
• the book thief (2005; markus zusak)
• 1q84 (2009; haruki murakami)
• aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe (2012; benjamin alire sáenz)
• i'll give you the sun (2014; jandy nelson)