Music:
Spoon, Bikini Kill, Bright Eyes, Pinback, Pavement, Elliot Smith, Busta, Interpol, Boards of Canada, Bach, Patsy Cline, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran(80's only), Fugazi, Violent Femmes, Ween, Iron and Wine, The Pixies, and Janes Addiction.
Books:
We The living and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Anatomy of the Spirit, Converations with God, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Alchemist, 11 Minutes, Veronica Decides to Die, any good cookbook, The Power of Now, and The Hobbit.