Media Recommendations

This is a masterlist of sorts of any books, movies, music, art pieces, or general media that I highly recommend people experience. Please make sure to look into any content warnings, since many of these tackle heavy themes and topics. Hope you enjoy!

Books

• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• Comfort Woman - Nora Okja Keller
• Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• The Iliad - Homer
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica

Movies

• Frankenstein 2025
• Sinners 2025
• Pacific Rim 2013
• The Thing 1982
• Monkey Man 2024
• Nope 2022
• Howl's Moving Castle 2004
• The Lost Boys 1987

TV Series

• The Owl House
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
• Utopia (2013)
• Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Delicious in Dungeon
• Arcane

Music

• Good & Evil - Tally Hall
• Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum - Tally Hall
• Spirit Phone - Lemon Demon
• ABBA
• Don't Stop, Girlypop! OST
• The Normal Album - Will Wood
• Murder Ballads of 1816 (The Year Without a Summer) - American Murder Song

Video Games

• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Hitman (2016), Hitman 2, Hitman 3
• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Artists and Art Pieces

• "Love, Before There was Love" - Dario Robleto
• "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" - Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Artemisia Gentileschi (All of her works are amazing, but my personal favorite is "Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting")
• Venus of Willendorf

Other

• The Phantom of the Opera (musical)
• Cats (musical)
• Hadestown (musical)