Although no easy task, here are some constantly changing lists of books, music, movies, and other nutriments that profoundly affect me:

10 Influential Fiction Books
1. The magic mountain- Thomas Mann
2. Island- Aldous Huxley
3. The glass bead game- Hermann Hesse
4. I, Claudius- Robert Graves
5. The trial- Franz Kafka
6. The brothers kazamarov- Fyodor Dostoevesky
7. The fountainhead- Ayn Rand
8. Time's arrow- Martin Amis
9. The man in the high castle- Philip K. Dick
10. The Cornish trilogy- Robertson Davies

10 Influential Non-Fiction Books
1. The demon haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark- Carl Sagan
2. The center of the cyclone- John Lilly
3. The blank slate- Steven Pinker
4. Rising up and rising down: Some thoughts on violence, freedom and urgent means- William T. Vollman
5. The moral animal: Why we are the way we are- Robert Wright
6. A short history of nearly everything- Bill Bryson
7. The end of faith: Religion, terror, and the future of reason- Sam Harris
8. The pleasure of finding things out- Richard Feynman
9. Love's executioner- Irwin Yalom
10. Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies- Jared Diamond