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