Books
- Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood
- The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman
- Love Child by Maureen Duffy
- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Nineteen Eighy-Four by George Orwell
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- Open City by Teju Cole
- Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
- Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- A Heart So White by Javier Marias
- Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with All Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
- Creating Fiction edited by Julie Checkoway
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Little Infamies by Panos Karnezis
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
- A Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
- Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton
- A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Films
- The Impossible (2012)
- Before Sunrise (1995)
- Before Sunset (2004)
- Django Unchained (2012)
- Quartet (2012)
- Les Misérables (2012)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- The Tree of Life (2011)
- New York, I Love You (2009)
- My Blueberry Nights (2007)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Confessions (2010)
- Lincoln (2012)
- Departures (2008)
- Stoker (2013)
- The Help (2011)
- Submarine (2010)
- Side Effects (2013)
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- End of Watch (2012)
- Robot and Frank (2012)
- La Vie en Rose (2007)
- Only Yesterday (1991)
- Memento (2000)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- 8 Women (2002)
- Broadcast News (1987)
- Flight (2012)
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Star Trek (2009)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- A Hijacking (2012)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
- Man of Steel (2013)
- Before Midnight (2013)
- After the Wedding (2006)
- Frances Ha (2012)
- Despicable Me 2 (2013)
- Zodiac (2007)
- Metro Manila (2013)
- Gold (2013)
- The Lone Ranger (2013)
- Elysium (2013)
- Tales of the Night (2011)
- Ilo Ilo (2013)
- Monsters University (2013)
- Prisoners (2013)
- Like Crazy (2011)
- Gravity (2013)
- The Karate Kid (2010)
- Persepolis (2007)
- The Flowers of War (2011)
- The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Up in the Air (2009)
- Transit (2013)
- From Up on Poppy Hill (2013)
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Frozen (2013)
- Ocean Waves (1993)
- Whisper of the Heart (1995)