25 Books that define COOL

http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/25-books-that-define-cool/

Mind expanding documentaries

http://collectivelyconscious.net/articles/300-mind-expanding-documentaries/

18 Books that will actually change your life

• Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Prodigal summer - Barbera Kingsolver
• The beautiful and damned - F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Artist's way - Julia Cameron
• The diving bell and the butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig 
• Cat’s Cradle - Vonnegut
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Invisible monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
• White oleander - Janet Fitch
• In cold blood - Truman Capote
• Middlesex - Calliope Stephanides
• Play as it lays - Joan Didion
• Ada or Ardor- Vladimir Nabokov
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
• Push - Sapphire