Reading Material
Fiction
- Call me by Your Name by André Aciman
- A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
- A Pilgrimage to Eternity and The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
- Agatha Christie – her entire collection!
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Soif by Amélie Nothomb
- Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Book of Dust Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
- Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
- Bunny by Mona Awad
- Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein
- Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Confederacy of Dunces by John Kenney Toole
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Einstein by Walter Isaacson
- French Prix Goncourt by Jean-Paul Dubois
- Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez
- Future Sounds by David Stubbs
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
- His Dark Materials Triology by Phillip Pullman
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Lilac Girls by Martha Kelly
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston
- Room with a View by EM Forster
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Chain by Adrian McKinty
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Flick by Annie Baker
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
- The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Soul of America by Jon Meacham
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Short Stories
- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- A Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway
- A&P by John Updike
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
- Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
- Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood
- Selected Stories by Andre Dubus
- The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Essays of E.B. White
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
- The Stories of Jon Cheever
- The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
- The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Tobias Wolf
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- To Build a Fire by Jack London
- Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Non-Fiction & Memoir
- We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougal
- Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Crucible of Hell by Saul David
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt
- Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister
- How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
- Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
- Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
- Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
- Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman
- Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports are Played and Games are Won by Tobias Moskowitz
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
- The Storm on Our Shores by Mark Obmascik
- Three Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy, and the Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
- Twilight of the Gods by Steven Hayden
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Zami by Audre Lorde
Movies
- 2 Idiots (2016)
- All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020)
- Being There (1979)
- Brooklyn Castle (2012)
- Crazy Stupid Love (2011)
- Dangal (2016)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Dolor y Gloria / Pain and Gloria (2019)
- Hamilton (2020)
- Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
- Jingle Jangle (2020)
- Marriage Story (2019)
- Palm Springs (2020)
- Parasite (2019)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
- The Bikes of Wrath (2018)
- The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- Toy Story 4 (2019)
TV Shows
- All American
- Alone
- Any episode of SNL that John Mulvaney stars in
- Arrested Development
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Barry – Bill Hader
- Bojack Horseman
- Cable Girls
- Caddyshack
- Chuck
- Commissario Montalbano
- Crash Landing On You
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- Dark
- Devs
- Dickinson
- Elite
- Grey’s Anatomy
- Hillbilly Elegy
- His Dark Materials
- Hollywood
- How To with John Wilson
- I am Not Okay With This
- I May Destroy You
- Law & Order
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Lovecraft Country
- Man in the High Castle
- Money Heist / Casa de Papel
- My Octopus Teacher
- New Girl
- Outer Banks
- Peaky Blinders and Waco
- Queer Eye
- Ratched
- Schitt’s Creek
- Space Force
- Succession
- The Crown
- The Good Place
- The Great
- The Great British Baking Show
- The Last Dance
- The Leftovers
- The Mandalorian
- The Office
- The Queen’s Gambit
- The Social Dilemma
- The Stranger
- The Tudors
- The Umbrella Academy
- The Undoing
- The West Wing
- Tiger King
- Unbelievable
- Upload
- Who Wants to be A Millionaire
- Yellowstone
- Young Adult
Music
- grae, Moses Sumney
- MAGDALENE, FKA Twigs
- My Own Soul’s Warning, The Killers
- Nightly, Donald Fagen
- Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers
- Shore, Fleet Foxes
- Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears
Podcasts
True Crime
- Accused – Season 1
- Broken Harts
- CaseFile
- Criminal
- Dirty John
- Dr. Death
- Happy Face
- In The Dark – Season 1
- Joe Exotic
- My Favorite Murder
- Radio Rental
- Serial
- The Drop Out
- The Dropout
- The Murder Squad
- Undisclosed
Government, Politics, & History
- 1619
- Bag Man
- Caliphate
- Code Switch
- Embedded
- Hardcore History
- His Land Podcast
- Louder than a Riot
- More Perfect
- Nice White Parents
- Planet Money
- Pod Save America
- Pod Save The World
- Revisionist History
- Slow Burn
- The Argument
- The Daily
- The New Washington
- Trump, Inc.
- Up First
Stories
- Death, Sex, and Money
- Heavyweight
- Rough Translation
- S-Town
- Snap Judgment
- The Dropout
- The Moth
- This American Life
Entrepreneurship
- How I Built This
- The All-In Podcast
- The Business of Fashion podcast
- The Startup Podcast
Miscellaneous
- Comedy Bang Bang
- Home Cooking
- Radiolab
- Reply All
- Secular Buddhism
- TED Radio Hour
- The Dream
- The Magic Lantern
- The Rewatchables
- This Podcast Will Kill You
