**Books:** ### **Science Fiction:** - _The Three-Body Problem_ - Liu Cixin ### **Classic Literature:** - _War and Peace_ - Leo Tolstoy - _All Quiet on the Western Front_ - Erich Maria Remarque - _Crime and Punishment_ - Fyodor Dostoevsky ### **Philosophical Literature:** - _Siddhartha_ - Hermann Hesse - _Nausea_ - Jean-Paul Sartre - _The Myth of Sisyphus_, _The Rebel_, _The Stranger_ - Albert Camus ### **Psychological/Modernist Fiction:** - _Lolita_ - Vladimir Nabokov - _The Metamorphosis_ - Franz Kafka - _The Lotus Eater_ - Somerset Maugham ### **Religion/Spirituality:** - _Three Religions, One God_ - _The Alchemist_ - Paulo Coelho ### **Psychology/Sociology:** - _The Games People Play_ ### **Economic and Political Theory:** - _Exit, Voice, and Loyalty_ - Albert O. Hirschman _____ **Cinema:** ### **Darren Aronofsky:** - _The Fountain_ - _Requiem for a Dream_ ### **Wachowskis:** - _The Matrix_ - _Cloud Atlas_ ### **Lars von Trier:** - _Dancer in the Dark_ - _Melancholia_ ### **Christopher Nolan:** - _Interstellar_ - _Inception_ - _Oppenheimer_ ### **Other Notable Films:** - _Malèna_ - _Joker_ - _Fight Club_ - *Coin*