Top Dogs:
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- The Painter of Modern Life — Charles Baudelaire
- Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tracks –Robyn Davidson
- “Howl” — Allen Ginsberg
- Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
- Demian — Hermann Hesse
- The Obstacle is The Way — Ryan Holiday
- Find a Way — Diana Nyad
- Waiting for Lefty — Clifford Odets
- Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke
- Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
- The Begum’s Milions — Jules Verne
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Fiction/Classics:
- Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
- Henderson the Rain King — Saul Bellows
- Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Adam Douglas
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Dean’s Watch — Elizabeth Goudge
- The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Victor Hugo
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
- Pickman’s Model — H.P. Lovecraft
- Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
- The Kings of Mulberry Street — Donna Jo Napoli
- Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell
- The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
- Dracula — Bram Stoker
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy — J.R.R. Tolkien
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne
Nonfiction Books:
- The Discourse of Epictetus — Arrian
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- Meditation — Sri Chimnoy
- Unbeatable Mind — Mark Devine
- Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
- Ego is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Confessions of a Guilty Bystander — Thomas Merton
- The Cool School: Writings from America’s Hip Underground — Glenn O’Brien
- Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
Books about Adventure:
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya — Felice Benuzzi
- A Walk Around the World: The Complete Story — Ffyona Campbell
- Paris Vagabond — Jean-Paul Clébert
- Tracks –Robyn Davidson
- Empty Roads and Broken Bottles: In Search of the Great Perhaps — Charlotte Eriksson
- Microadventures— Alastair Humphreys
- Moods of Future Joys — Alastair Humphreys
- Ultramarathon Man — Dean Karnazes
- Eat and Run — Scott Jurek
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning — Laurie Lee
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
- Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle — Dervla Murphey
- Finding Ultra — Rich Roll
- How to Be an Explorer of the World — Keri Smith
- Fresh Air Fiend, Travel Writings — Paul Theroux
Books about Writing:
- Zen in the Art of Writing — Ray Bradbury
- How to Write Like Chekhov — excerpts from Anton Chekhov, edited by Piero Brunello and Lena Lencek
- The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
- On Writing— Stephen King
- Draft No. 4 — John McPhee
- Henry Miller on Writing — Henry Miller
- Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life–Dani Shapiro
- Why Poetry? — Matthew Zapruder
Short Stories:
- “Hills Like White Elephants” — Ernest Hemingway
- “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” — Gabriel García Márquez
- “The Wall”— Jean-Paul Sartre
- Skin and other Stories — Roald Dahl
Poetry:
- “Tonight” — Agha Shahid Ali
- “Casabiana” — Elizabeth Bishop
- “The Man Moth” — Elizabeth Bishop
- “Kubla Khan” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Horoscopes for the Dead — Billy Collins
- “The Colored Soldiers” –– Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- “Howl” and other Poems — Allen Ginsberg
- “Reville”–A.E. Housman
- “Return”–Robinson Jeffers
- “The End of the World” — Archibald MacLeish
- “Rooms”–Charlotte Mew
- “Ave”–Diane di Prima
- “Entrance” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Aince Upon a Day” — William Soutar
- “Love is a Lunatic City” — C.K Stead
- “The Poet” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “A Noiseless, Patient Spider” — Walt Whitman
- “Song of Myself” — Walt Whitman
Spoken Word Poetry:
- “My Name is Hiwot” — Hiwot Adilow
- “Period Poem” — Dominique Christina
- “Angry Black Woman” — Porsha O.
Plays:
- Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
- Long Day’s Journey into Night — Eugene O’Neill
- Julius Ceasar — William Shakespeare
- Henry IV Part 1 — William Shakespeare
- Oedipus Rex — Sophocles
- The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams
- The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
Essays:
- The Painter of Modern Life — Charles Baudelaire
- “Tradition and the Individual Talent” — T.S. Eliot
- “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose”–Jack Kerouac
- “On Stories” — C.S. Lewis
- “Why I Write” — George Orwell
- “Politics and the English Language” — George Orwell
- “On Shooting an Elephant” — George Orwell
- Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke
Speeches:
- Barack Obama’s Farewell Address
- “The Man in the Arena” — Theodore Roosevelt
Photos:

Philippe Halsman – “Salvador Dali A”, 1948 – Gelatin silver print .
Paintings:

Nighthawks, (1942): Edward Hopper

The Anthropomorphic Cabinet, (1936); Salvador Dali

The Elephants, (1948); Salvador Dali
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