• On The Road, by Jack Kerouac
• House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011, by Lizzy Goodman
• Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo
• Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink, by Tina Horn
• Metal From Heaven, by August Clarke
• From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, by Gene Sharp

with a courtesy mention of some TV shows/films:

• The X Files
• Twin Peaks
• Star Trek: The Original Series
• Doctor Who
• The Karate Kid, and its contemporary sequal television series, Cobra Kai
• Rocky
• Les Miserable