Recommendations

Welcome to the recommendations page! Here, you’ll find my current top 10 lists of all-time favorite books, movies, music albums, songs, and more. I hope these works of art can be fodder for wonderful reflections, discussions, and creations, just as they have been for me. Happy hunting!

Books

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

Honorable Mentions: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, Touching this Leviathan by Peter Wayne Moe, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, The Book of the Dun Cow by Walt Wangerin Jr., All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Watership Down by Richard Adams

Movies

Cast Away
Sing Street
True Grit (2010)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Paterson
Pride and Prejudice (2004)
Good Will Hunting
Tolkien
Warrior
Call Me By Your Name

Honorable Mentions: Once, Knives Out, The Thin Red Line, La La Land, Arrival, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Nomadland, Kubo and the Two Strings, Klaus, Rudy, The Secret of Kells, The Iron Giant, The Breadwinner, The King’s Speech, War Horse, Cry the Beloved Country, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Shawshank Redemption, Ladyhawke

Music Albums

Graceland by Paul Simon
So Runs the World Away by Josh Ritter
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend
Dream War by Ella Mine
August and Everything After by Counting Crows
Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend
Anaïs Mitchell by Anaïs Mitchell
For What It’s Worth by J Lind
Banjophony by Damien O’Kane and Ron Block

Honorable Mentions: Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys, The Wild Swan by Foy Vance, Battle Born by the Killers, The Ill-Tempered Klavier by Ben Shive, In My Room by Jacob Collier, The Land of Canaan by J Lind, The Joshua Tree by U2, The Desired Effect by Brandon Flowers, The Reckoning by Needtobreathe, Equals by Ed Sheeran, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent by Lewis Capaldi, Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder, Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons, Letter to You by Bruce Springsteen, The Cymbal Crashing Clouds by Ben Shive, Babel by Mumford and Sons, Delta by Mumford and Sons, The Mantis and the Moon by Son of Laughter, Conditions of a Punk by Half Alive, Viva La Vida: Or, Death and All His Friends by Coldplay, Everyday Life by Coldplay, Self-Titled by Marcus Mumford, So by Peter Gabriel