Recommended Media
For movies, check out my Letterboxd lists. They tend to be a good metric for my personal taste.
These aren't in any particular order, feel free to check out any that sound interesting to you.
Literature: Non-Fiction
- Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake
- What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses - Daniel Chamovitz
- The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology - Peter Singer
- The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything - Michael Puett
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
- Gods, Voices and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes - Marcel Kuijsten
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Essays in Idleness - Yoshida Kenko
- Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
- Chaos - James Gleick
- The Essential Jung: Selected Writings - Anthony Storr
- Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Must We Mean What We Say? - Stanley Cavell
- Ways of Seeing - John Berger
- The Analects - Confucius
- Notes on Camp - Susan Sontag
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
- Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind - Annaka Harris
- Engaging the Moving Image - Noel Carrol
Literature: Fiction
- Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
- The Tempest - William Shakespeare
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- In a Bamboo Grove - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- All Tomorrows - C. M. Kosemen
Comics/Graphic Novels and Manga/Manhwa