Design and art BOOKS
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
The Politics of Design by Ruben Pater
Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley
Fiction
James by Percival Everett
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
The Door by Magda Szabo
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Crash by J.G. Ballard
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Stoner by John Edward Williams
The Outsider (The Stranger) by Albert Camus
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Antkind by Charile Kaufman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Sociology Books
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Orientalism by Edward Said
Shopping in Jail by Douglas Coupland
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Illuminations (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) by Walter Benjamin
Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Films
Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kaufman
Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio
Coraline by Henry Selick
Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
Nightcrawler by Daniel Christopher Gilroy
The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
Mr Nobody by Jacob Van Dormael
The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos
Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos
Holdovers by Alexander Payne
Inception by Christopher Nolan
Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley
Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller
The Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross