Some Entirely Subjective (and subject to change) Rankings

Books

Fiction

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

• Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling (entire series, but Half Blood Prince if you are forcing me to choose)

• Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

• The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

• Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Non-Fiction

• Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey

• Inferno - Max Hastings

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

• Walden - Henry David Thoreau

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Dideon

• Endurance - Alfred Lansing

Poetry, Plays, Misc.

• The Tempest - William Shakespeare

• The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire

• Prufrock - T.S. Eliot

• The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe

• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

Music

Movies

• Star Wars

  • Favorite to least favorite: Ep. 5, 4, Rouge One, 6, 3, Solo, 2, 1, 7, 8/9 (tie)

• The Godfather (parts 1 and 2)

• Lord of The Rings Trilogy

• Midnight in Paris

• The Town

• Die Hard

Video Games

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

• Mass Effect Trilogy

• Horizon Zero Dawn

• Breath of the Wild

• Skyrim

• Halo: Reach

TV

• The Sopranos

• Mad Men

• The O.C.

• Parks and Rec.

• The West Wing

• The Office (U.S. version)

• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

• True Detective (first season)