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Top Ten Books

1. The Princess Diaries series (Meg Cabot)
2. The Mortal Instruments series (Cassandra Clare)
3. Middlemarch (George Eliot)
4. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (JKR is a transphobe, which we do not stan here. But I can’t help that I read these books in fourth grade and they had a huge impact on my emotional development. Ironic that a bigot taught me to stand up to bigots, but there it is)
7. An Ember in the Ashes (Sabaa Tahir)
8. Persuasion (Jane Austen)
9. The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
10. Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

Top Ten Movies

1. What We Do in the Shadows
2. Knives Out
3. The Lion King (1994)
4. The Jane Austen Book Club
5. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (and sure, I’d be happy to FIGHT YOU)
6. The Boy and the Beast
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. High Fidelity
9. Lord of the Rings trilogy
10. Ocean’s 8

Top Ten Video Games

1. Dream Daddy
2. Don’t Starve
3. Yoshi’s Island
4. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
5. Spyro the Dragon
6. Overcooked
7. Roller Coaster Tycoon
8. Stardew Valley
9. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
10. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Top Ten Musicals

1. Chicago
2. Wicked
3. Once More with Feeling (the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer–this counts, TRUST ME)
4. The Phantom of the Opera
5. Newsies
6. Legally Blonde
7. Something Rotten
8. The Man of La Mancha
9. Into the Woods
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Top Ten TV Shows

1. Orange is the New Black
2. Game of Thrones
3. Schitt’s Creek
4. The Office
5. Friends
6. How I Met Your Mother
7. The Vampire Diaries
8. Gilmore Girls
9. Bob’s Burgers
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer