Favorite Media
Books
Fiction
Prose and Verse
- A Wrinkle in Time • 1962 • Madeleine L’Engle
- To Kill a Mockingbird • 1960 • Harper Lee
- The Little Prince • 1943 • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Earthsea Cycle • series, 1964 • Ursula K. Le Guin
- Bridge to Terabithia • 1977 • Katherine Paterson
- The Dark Crystal • 1982 • A. C. H. Smith
- We Were Liars • 2013 • E. Lockhart
- The Hunger Games • series, 2008 • Suzanne Collins
- Paradise Rot • 2009 • Jenny Hval
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
Graphic
- Fullmetal Alchemist • series, 2001 • Hiromu Arakawa
- Brody's Ghost • series, 2010 • Mark Crilley
- Watchmen • series, 1986 • Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins
- Bone • series, 1991 • Jeff Smith
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou • series, 1994 • Hitoshi Ashinano
- Octopus Pie • series, 2007 • Meredith Gran
- Go Get a Roomie! • series, 2010 • Clover
- Chainsaw Man • series, 2018 • Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Lost at Sea • 2003 • Bryan Lee O'Malley
- Devil's Candy • series, 2014 • Rem and Bikkuri
Nonfiction
- Elements of Pantheism • 1999 • Paul Harrison
- The Dawn of Everything • 2021 • David Graeber and David Wengrow
- More Than Two • 2014 • Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert
- Relationship Anarchy • 2022 • Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés
- Four Thousand Weeks • 2021 • Oliver Burkeman
- Understanding Comics • 1993 • Scott McCloud
- Into the Wild • 1996 • Jon Krakauer
- Persepolis • 2000 • Marjane Satrapi
- Fun Home • 2006 • Alison Bechdel
- Drawing Down the Moon • 2006 • Margot Adler
Films
Live-action
- The Grand Budapest Hotel • 2014 • Wes Anderson
- Mad Max: Fury Road • 2015 • George Miller
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World • 2010 • Edgar Wright
- Donnie Darko • 2001 • Richard Kelly
- The Dark Crystal • 1982 • Jim Henson and Frank Oz
- Super 8 • 2011 • J. J. Abrams
- The Darjeeling Limited • 2007 • Wes Anderson
- Holes • 2003 • Andrew Davis
- The Lord of the Rings • trilogy, 2001 • Peter Jackson
- My Girl • 1991 • Howard Zieff
Animated
- Summer Wars • 2009 • Mamoru Hosoda
- Whisper of the Heart • 1995 • Yoshifumi Kondō
- Penguin Highway • 2018 • Hiroyasu Ishida
- From Up on Poppy Hill • 2011 • Goro Miyazaki
- The Night is Short, Walk On Girl • 2017 • Masaaki Yuasa
- Kung Fu Panda • 2008 • Mark Osborne
- Kubo and the Two Strings • 2016 • Travis Knight
- Fantastic Mr. Fox • 2009 • Wes Anderson
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days • 2004 • Makoto Shinkai
- The Secret of Kells • 2009 • Tomm Moore
Games
- Night in the Woods • 2017 • Infinite Fall, Finji
- Oxenfree • 2016 • Night School Studio
- Stardew Valley • 2016 • ConcernedApe
- Transistor • 2014 • Supergiant Games
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses • 2019 • Intelligent Systems
- Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver Versions • 2009 • Game Freak
Music
Albums
- Conditions • 2011 • The Temper Trap
- Language & Perspective • 2014 • Bad Suns
- Mind over Matter • 2013 • Young the Giant
- Demon Days • 2005 • Gorillaz
- The Black Parade • 2006 • My Chemical Romance
- Save Rock and Roll • 2013 •Fall Out Boy
- Young the Giant • 2009 • Young the Giant
- Beneath the Skin • 2015 • Of Monsters and Men
Series
Live-action
- Parks and Recreation • 2009 • Greg Daniels and Michael Schur
Animated
- Mission Hill • 1999 • Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein
- Noein • 2005 • Kazuki Akane
- Amphibia • 2019 • Matt Braly
- Adventure Time • 2010 • Pendleton Ward
- FLCL • 2001 • Kazuya Tsurumaki
- Gurren Lagann • 2007 • Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima
- Last Exile • 2003 • Koichi Chigira
- Over the Garden Wall • 2014 • Pat McHale
- Gravity Falls • 2012 • Alex Hirsch
- Toradora!! • 2008 • Tatsuyuki Nagai