Recommendations

RECOMMENDATIONS

BOOKS

Philadelphia Area Authors

Familyism, Nine Nails, I Am Terezin, Feig, More Strange Than True, The Bus Ride, The Tree of Sorrow, The Phantom of Skid Row, Shouting from Constricted Lungs, Our Dementia

Classics

A Christmas Carol, A Room of One’s Own, Anne of Green Gables, Dracula, Frankenstein, Madame Bovary, My Antonia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Catcher in the Rye, The Dream Songs, The Great Gatsby, The Haunting of Hill House, The Jungle, The Monk, The Plague, The Scarlet Letter, The Sun Also Rises, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Vita Nuova, We Have Always Lived in a Castle

Fiction

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Blood and Gold, Breath and Bones, Conviction, Cry to Heaven, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Immortal, Interview with the Vampire, Kindred, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Night, Possession, The Body Thief, The Crucible, The Davinci Code, The Gilded Chamber, The Vampire Lestat

Memoir

After Long Silence, Autobiography of a Face, Teacher Man

Poetry

Dream Songs, Shouting from Constricted Lungs, What Work Is

FILM

Drama

A Field of Their Own, Anatomy of a Scandal, Angela’s Ashes, Angels and Demons, Alexander, Anne of Green Gables (1985 series), Anne with an E, Atonement, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Beaches, Brokedown Palance, Cold Mountain, Coolie, Criminal Minds, Dead Poet’s Society, Dracula (1992), Elephant, Far and Away, Far From Heaven, Gandhi, Flame and Citron, Flatliners, Frances Ha, Ghost, Fried Green Tomatoes, Game of Thrones, Gangs of New York, Gladiator, Gone Girl, Gone with the Wind, Highway to Heaven (Series), Hotel Rwanda, Joy Luck Club, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Les Misérables (2012), Love in the Time of Cholera, Marie Antoinette (2006), Marley and Me, Martian Child, Messiah, Million Dollar Baby, My So Called Life (Series), My Name is Khan, Outlander, Ozark, Planet of the Apes (1968), Possession, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Rob Roy, Romeo and Juliet (1996), Secret City, Schindler’s List, School Ties, Sharaabi, The Crucible, The Davinci Code, The Forest, The Great Gatsby (2013), The Girl on the Train, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Help, The Hours, The House of Sand and Fog, The Imitation Game, The Killing, The Kite Runner, The Last Emperor, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Namesake, The Piano, The Vanishing, Total Eclipse, Thelma and Louise, Unbelievable, Under the Bridge, V for Vendetta, Water, Veer Zaara, Water for Elephants, With Honors, Yellowjackets

Horror

A Haunting in Connecticut, Anthropophagus, As Above So Below, Candyman, Dead End, Evil Dead Rise, Fear Street, Friday the Thirteenth, From, Gothika, Halloween, Hannibal, Hellraiser, Insidious, Ouija, Midnight Mass, Paranormal Activity, Perfume, Poltergeist, Ravenous, Red Dragon, Rose Red, Sinister, 28 Days Later, The Amityville Horror, The Blair Witch Project, The Caller, The Conjuring, The Grudge, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Haunting of Hill House, The House of the Devil, The Last House on the Left, The Others, The Ring, Seven, The Silence of the Lambs, The Strangers, The Witch, Unsolved Mysteries, White Noise

Stephen King Adaptations

Doctor Sleep, Dolores Claiborne, Dream Catcher, 1408, IT, 1922, Misery, Sometimes They Come Back, The Langoliers, Pet Semetary, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The Shining, The Stand,

M. Knight Shyamalan

Devil, Signs, Split, The Sixth Sense, The Village, The Happening, The Visit

Guillermo Del Toro

Crimson Peak, The Orphanage, Pan’s Labyrinth, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Fantasy/Hybrid/Action

Alien, American Horror Story, Bones, Daybreakers, Drag Me to Hell, Hemlock Grove, Indiana Jones, Legion, Penny Dreadful, Stranger Things, Stonehurst Asylum, Terminator, The Matrix, Total Recall, True Blood, Underworld, Valkyrie,

Comedy

Book Smart, Bride’s Maids, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Gilmore Girls, Harold and Kumar, My Gig Fat Greek Wedding, The First Wives Club, She’s the Man, Will and Grace, Zoolander

Animated

Aladin, Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood, The Land Before Time, The Little Mermaid, Transformers the Movie