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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