Top Dogs:

• • Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Alchemist — Paulo Coehlo
  • Empty Roads and Broken Bottles: In Search of the Great Perhaps — Charlotte Eriksson
  • “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 from a Stoic — Seneca
  • Dracula — Bram Stoker
  • The Begum’s Milions — Jules Verne

 

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Fiction/Classics: 

• Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
• 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 
• The Kings of Mulberry Street — Donna Jo Napoli
• Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell
• The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy — J.R.R. Tolkien
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne

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Nonfiction Books:

• The Discourse of Epictetus — Arrian 
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Unbeatable Mind — Mark Devine
• Tools of Titans — Tim Ferriss
• Living with a SEAL — Jesse Itzler
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• The Cool School: Writings from America’s Hip Underground — Glenn O’Brien
• Discipline Equals Freedom — Jocko Willink

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Books about Adventure:

• No Picnic on Mount Kenya — Felice Benuzzi
• Microadventures— Alastair Humphreys
• Becoming Odyssa — Jennifer Pharr Davis
• How to Be an Explorer of the World — Keri Smith

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Books about Running:

• Ultramarathon Man — Dean Karnazes
• Eat and Run — Scott Jurek
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
• Finding Ultra — Rich Roll

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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
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life — Anne Lamott
• Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life–Dani Shapiro

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Short Stories:

• “Hills Like White Elephants” — Ernest Hemingway
• “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” — Gabriel García Márquez
• “The Wall”— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Poetry:

• 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
• “Rooms”–Charlotte Mew
• “Ave”–Diane di Prima
• “Aince Upon a Day” — William Soutar
• “The Poet” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “A Noiseless, Patient Spider” — Walt Whitman
• “Song of Myself” — Walt Whitman

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Spoken Word Poetry:

• “My Name is Hiwot” — Hiwot Adilow
• “Period Poem” — Dominique Christina
• “Angry Black Woman” — Porsha O.

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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
• Oediupus Rex — Sophocles
• The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams
• The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

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Essays:

• “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

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Speeches:

• Barack Obama’s Farewell Address 
• “The Man in the Arena” — Theodore Roosevelt

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Albums/Songs:

• My Favourite Faded Fantasy — Damien Rice
• 9 — Damien Rice
• The Creek Drank the Cradle — Iron & Wine
• Moulin Rouge — from Baz Luhrmann’s Film
• Seven — Rainbow Kitten Surprise
• “Hold Your Head Up High” — Darlingside
• “Upwards over the Mountain” — Iron & Wine
• “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” — Iron & Wine 
• “Night Air” — Jamie Woon
• “Hold On” — Quetschklampfa

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Movies:

• Rocky (1976)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Stranger than Fiction (2006)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Birdman (2014)

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