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Music

• Alexz Johnson
• Allison Iraheta
• Ani Difranco
• Animal Collective
• Antigone Rising
• Ashlee Simpson
• Beethoven
• Belle and Sebastian
• Beyonce
• Bikini Kill
• Bob Dylan
• Boys Who Say No
• Britney Spears
• Cheese On Bread
• The Clash
• Emily Haines
• Faure
• Feist
• Goldfrapp
• Jeff Buckley
• Jenny Lewis
• Kelly Clarkson
• Kimya Dawson
• Kris Allen
• LCD Soundsystem
• Leonard Cohen
• Lily Allen
• Liz Phair
• Los Campesinos!
• Metric
• Modest Mouse
• Mozart
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
• Palestrina
• Patti Smith
• The Pogues
• Regina Spektor
• Rilo Kiley
• Robyn
• Rufus Wainwright
• Tori Amos
• The Unlovables
• Verdi
• VV Brown
• The World/Inferno Friendship Society

TV

• 30 Rock
• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Desperate Housewives
• Hey Arnold!
• House
• Instant Star
• My So-Called Life
• Sailor Moon
• Scrubs
• Veronica Mars

Movies

• Batman Begins & The Dark Knight
• The Big Lebowski
• Edward Scissorhands
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Kinsey
• Maria Full of Grace
• Moulin Rouge
• Mulan
• The Pianist
• Pirates of the Caribbean & sequels
• Romeo + Juliet
• Shakespeare in Love
• Snakes on a Plane
• Wall-E
• When Harry Met Sally

Literature

• The poetry of John Ashbery
• Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett
• The parts of the Animorphs series that were actually good, K. A. Applegate
• Believers, Charles Baxter
• The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
• The poetry of Eavan Boland
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and sequels, Ann Brashares
• Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt
• The Postman Always Rings Twice, James Cain
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
• Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan
• The Body Artist, Don Delillo
• The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
• Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
• Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sandman, Neil Gaiman
• The poetry of Louise Gluck
• Angels in America, Tony Kushner
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
• The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh
• Watchmen, Alan Moore
• The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
• The poetry of Frank O’Hara
• The His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
• The Harry Potter books, J. K. Rowling
• Holes, Louis Sachar
• Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
• On Beauty, Zadie Smith
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• Ordinary Love and Good Will
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner
• The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

Nonfiction

• Passionate Minds, David Bodanis
• Educating Esme, Esme Raji Codell
• Doris: Anthology, Cindy Ovenrack Crabb
• The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics, Marcus de Sautoy
• Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina, David Hadju
• The Harbor Boys, Hugo Hamilton
• Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul, Edward Humes
• Drinking: A Love Story, Carolyn Knapp
• No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn
• Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Jonathan Kozol
• Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, Anthony Lukas
• The Working Poor: Invisible in America, David K. Shipler
• The Trojan War: A New History, Barry Strauss
• The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire, Tom Zoellner