Books:

the alchemist/paulo coelho

divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood/rebecca wells

the history of love/nicole krauss

extremely loud and incredibly close/jonathan safran foer

brave new world/aldous huxley

the secret lives of people in love/simon van booy

the brothers karamazov/fyodor dostoevsky

the little prince/antoine de saint-exupéry

flappers and philosophers/f. scott fitzgerald

songs from under the river/anis mojgani

the feather room/anis mojgani

crime and punishment/fyodor dostoevsky

the fountainhead/ayn rand

don’t sing at the table/adriana trigiani

who’s afraid of virginia woolf?/edward albee

night/elie wiesel

z: a novel of zelda fitzgerald/therese anne fowler

the great gatsby/f. scott fitzgerald

letters to a young poet/rainer maria rilke

death in the afternoon/ernest hemingway

1984/george orwell

the color purple/alice walker

a severe mercy/sheldon vanauken

on the road/jack kerouac

a thousand splendid suns/khaled hosseini

girl, interrupted/susanna kaysen

blue water/a. manette ansay

the glass castle/jeanette walls

plays:

red/john logan

the works of tennessee williams

death of a salesman/arthur miller

august: osage county/tracy letts

days without end/eugene o’neill

films:

the fountain

the pianist

manchester by the sea

cloud atlas

beautiful boy

warrior

hugo

schindler’s list

chocolat

whiplash

giant

midnight in paris

la guerre des boutons

saving mr. banks

what’s eating gilbert grape

woman in gold

the aviator

mermaids

funny girl

last love

garden state

paris can wait

good will hunting

gladiator

the sandpiper

gravity

a quiet place

fury

captain fantastic

burnt

the theory of everything

philomena

i am sam

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

what dreams may come

fiddler on the roof

a royal affair

anna karenina

by the sea

cat on a hot tin roof

poets

czesław miłosz

maya angelou

anna kamienska

anis mojgani

t.s. eliot

anna akhmatova

RUDY FRANCISCO

ralph waldo emerson

MARY OLIVER

BILLY COLLINS

eager to read:

to the lighthouse/virginia woolf

a tree grows in brooklyn/betty smith

anna karenina/leo tolstoy

the sea, the sea/iris murdoch

my Ántonia/willa cather

east of eden/john steinbeck

beloved/toni morrison

suite française/irène Némirovsky

the moviegoer/walker percy

the street of crocodiles/bruno schulz