Philosophy, History, Language, Music, Guitar.
Douglas Hofstadter and a few other people who've pondered how consciousness is possible. And the future me, who owes me pretty much everything he has.
Yes, some but not all.
Amelie, Apollo 13, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Godfather (I, II, and III), Dead Man, The Matrix, Memento, Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, When Harry Met Sally, Being John Malkovich, Enemy at the Gates, Dead Man Walking, Fight Club, Hotel Rwanda, The Longest Day, The Lord of the Rings (I, II, and III), Mars Attacks!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Young Frankenstein, blah blah blah...there's probably few more.
Public
Books I've Read This Year:
"The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin
"Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper" by Bryan Magee
Last Year:
"Doubt: A History" by Jennifer Michael Hecht.
"Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Pathways to Bliss" by Joseph Campbell
"The Problems of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell
"An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy" by Roger Scruton
"Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey" by Roger Scruton
"Confessions of a Philosopher" by Bryan Magee
"Hogan" by Curt Sampson
"Law and Objectivity" by Kent Greenawalt
"Kant: A Very Short Introduction" by Roger Scruton
"The Cardinal of the Kremlin" by Tom Clancy
"Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction" by Christopher Janaway
"Unended Quest" by Karl Popper
"The First World War" by John Keegan
"On The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" by Arthur Schopenhauer
"A History of Philosophy, Vol 1" by Frederick Copleston, S.J.
"Philosophy: The Basics" by Nigel Warburton
"The Story of Philosophy" by Brian Magee
"Thinking About Logic" by Stephen Read
"The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain de Botton
"Clear and Present Danger" by Tom Clancy
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
"Broken Music" by Sting
"Atheism: The Case Against God" by George H. Smith
"Crimes Against Logic" by Jamie Whyte
"Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" by Walter Kaufmann
"The Central Questions of Philosophy" by A.J. Ayer
"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World" by Nicholas Ostler
"Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nietzsche" by Richard Schacht
"Gödel's Proof" by Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman
Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Popper.