Literary:

• Sun Tzu - The Art of War (5th Century BC)

• Confucius - Analects (5th Century BC)

• Plato - The Republic (4th Century BC)

• Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics (4th Century BC)

• Cicero - On Duties (1st Century BC)

• Old Testament (Abrahamic Religious Text)

• New Testament (Abrahamic Religious Text)

• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (2nd Century AD)

• Quran (Abrahamic Religious Text)

• Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (14th Century AD)

• Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (1605)

• Rene Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)

• John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667)

• Baruch Spinoza - Ethics (1677)

• Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)

• Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling (1843)

• John Stuart Mill - On Liberty (1859)

• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

• Herman Hesse - Siddhartha (1922)

• Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)

• George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

• Lois Lowry - The Giver (1993)

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan (2007)

Musical:

• Classical (Mozart, Liszt, Johann Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven)

• Classic Rock (Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Elton John, The Kinks)

• R&B/Soul/Reggae (Four Tops, Sam Cooke, UB40, Bob Marley, Fats Domino, Stevie Wonder)

• Folk/Country/Jam (Simon and Garfunkel, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead)

• Rap/Hip-Hop/Alternative (Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, The Game, Kanye West, Gorillaz)

• Bachata (Raulin Rodriguez, Anthony Santos, Frank Reyes, Hector Acosta, Romeo Santos)

Visual:

• Claude Monet

• Charlie Chaplin

• Anti-War Films (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Pretty Village Pretty Flame, Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, Johnny Got His Gun)

Athletic: