Books, Fiction

• Jane Austen, Emma
• Michael Cunningham, The Hours
• Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
• Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest 
• Maria Tatar, ed., Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World
• Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
• Monique Truong, Bitter in the Mouth
• Alice Walker, The Color Purple
• Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Books, General

• Daniel Jurafsky, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
• Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
• Frank Warren, ed., PostSecret (any of the books)

Books, History 

• Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (first edition!)
• Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present
• Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
• Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
• Miguel A. De La Torre, Reading the Bible from the Margins
• Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust 
• Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
• Richard Plant, The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
• Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
• George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
• Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
• John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change Or Die
• Phil Zuckerman, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions

Books, History (reads like a novel)

• Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil’s Highway
• Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
• Peter Hessler, Country Driving : A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
• Erik Larson, Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
• Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: Transformation of an American Family
• Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Books, Memoir/Autobiography  

• Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir 
• Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi 

Books, Writing 

• Joseph M. Williams, et al., Style: Lessons in Grace and Clarity

Books, Theory 

• Benedict Anderson, Imagined Community 
• Meg-John Baker, Queer: A Graphic History
• Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender
• J. Jack Halberstam, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
• Sean Hall, This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics
• George Ritter, The McDonalidization of Society 
• Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
• Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality 
• Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability 
• Anything by Susan Sontag, by Michel Foucault, by bell hooks, by Virginia Woolf

Films, Fiction 

• Antonia’s Line (1995)
• Bent (1997)
• The Hours (2002)
• My Name is Khan (2010)
• Orlando (1992)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Shoulder Arms (1918)
• Almost anything with Meryl Streep or with Toni Collette 

Films, Documentary 

• Samsara (2011)

Fiction, Television 

• Lucifer (2016-)
• Scott & Bailey (2011-2016)
• Sense8 (2015-2018)
• The Good Place
• Schitt$ Creek

Music

• Anything by Amanda Marshall, by Linkin Park, by Postmodern Jukebox 
• My iTunes playlist of current top favorites can be found here.