Book & Film Recommendations

Fiction:

Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift

Frankenstein (1817) by Mary Shelley

A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë

Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka

Quicksand (1928) by Nella Larsen

Voyage in the Dark (1934) by Jean Rhys

The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger

Psycho (1959) by Robert Bloch

The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson

To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (1964) by Roald Dahl

The Magic Finger (1966) by Roald Dahl

Matilda (1988) by Roald Dahl

White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith

Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Diaz

Indian Horse (2012) by Richard Wagamese

Welcome to Pringlewood (2020) by Quentin Stuckey

Non Fiction:

The Highly Sensitive Person (1997) by Elaine Aaron

The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) by Jonathan Haidt

Personality: What Makes You The Way You Are (2007) by Daniel Nettle

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (2012) by Susan Cain

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014) by Bessel van der Kolk

Confessions of a Sensitive Man: An Unconventional Defense of Sensitive Men (2020) by William Allen

Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety from the Doctor Who Created It (2020) by Russell Kennedy

Films:

Arsenic and Old Lace (1946) directed by Frank Capra

Rope (1948) directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Psycho (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Graduate (1967) directed by Mike Nichols

A Clockwork Orange (1971) directed by Stanley Kubrick

Clerks (1994) directed by Kevin Smith

Midnight in Paris (2011) directed by Woody Allen

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) directed by Wes Anderson

Birdman (2014) directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu

The Disaster Artist (2017) directed by James Franco

Inside (2021) directed by Bo Burnham