• albert camus - the fall
• allen ginsberg - howl
• anthony burgess - a clockwork orange
• bret easton ellis - american pyscho
• dale carnegie - how to win friends and influence
• f. scott fitzgerald - tender is the night
• franz kafka - the trial
• fyodor dostoyevsky - crime and punishment
• fyodor dostoyevsky - notes from underground
• goudlas coupland - generation x
• herman melville - moby-dick
• jack kerouac - on the road
• jean-paul sartre - nausea
• jonathan safran foer - eating animals
• joseph conrad - heart of darkness-
• karl marx - the communist manifesto-
• mary shelley - frankenstein-

jacques prévert

• i recognized happiness by the noise it made when it left.

the catcher in the rye

• poets are always taking the weather so personally. they're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

edgar allan poe

• we gave the future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

heart of darkness

• droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.
• no, i don't like work. i had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. i don't like work - no ma...

action/adventure

• 1953 - mogambo
• 1956 - moby dick
• 1962 - lawrence of arabia
• 2015 - mad max: fury road
• 2015 - the revenant

comedy

• 1935 - it happened one night
• 1940 - the great dictator
• 1955 - the seven year itch
• 1966 - who's afraid of virginia woolf?
• 1967 - two for the road
• 1968 - how to irritate people
• 1976 - one flew over the cuckoo's nest
• 1981 - ladie's and gentlemen, the fabulous stains
• 1982 - fast times at ridgemont high
• 1982 - tootsie
• 1986 - faris bueller's day off
• 1987 - good morning, vietnam!

• 1949 - the third man
• 1958 - vertigo
• 1975 - young frankenstein
• 1984 - this is spinal tap
• 1985 - after hours
• 1985 - clue
• 1989 - who framed roger rabbit?
• 1992 - bram stoker's dracula
• 1995 - the basketball diaries
• 1995 - clueless
• 1997 - twin town
• 1998 - the big lebowski
• 1999 - 10 things i hate about you
• 1999 - fight club
• 2000 - billy elliot
• 2015 - what we do in the shadows

• anima pop ("bionique")-
• dirty pretty things
• heifervescent ("chased by a cow")-
• howler
• inspiral carpets-
• interpol
• inxs-
• matthew perryman jones ("out of reach")-
• maxïmo park-
• neon bicycles ("used to love")
• she wants revenge-
• sonic depravation ("the cop next door")
• spacey ship ("sweet marie bee")
• spleen poetry-
• t.rex-

children's lit

• e.l. konigsburg - from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler
• lemony snicker - a serious of unfortunate events
• louis sachar - sideways stories from wayside school

fiction

• alan warner - morvern callar
• armitage trail - scarface
• claude brown - manchild in the promised land
• ernest hemingway - a farewell to arms
• ernest hemingway - the sun also rises
• f. scott fitzgerald - tales of the jazz age
• f. scott fitzgerald - the beautiful and the damned
• f. scott fitzgerald - this side of paradise

• alice's adventures in wonderland - royal ballet
• frankenstein - royal ballet
• a midsummer night's dream - nyc ballet
• hamlet (either royal ballet or nbc ballet, look it up)