Here's some of my favorites, in music & books:
Sounds: Tusk & Kiln House -- Fleetwood Mac / We'll never turn back -- Mavis Staples / Benefit -- Jethro Tull / Push comes to shove -- John Hammond Jr. / The Beatles 1967-1970 (28 songs) / Mighty Rearranger -- Robert Plant / Demon Days--Gorillaz / Muddy Waters Junior Wells Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin Mark Knopfler Tom Petty Arcade Fire Tim "Love" Lee Pink Floyd Emmylou Harris The Carter Family Bill Monroe
Books: Glimpse after Glimpse -- Sogyal Rinpoche / Experiences of God -- edited by Jonathan Robinson / Notebooks of Paul Brunton (Perspectives---Overview) / Peter's Quotations -- edited by Dr. Laurence J. Peter / God in all Worlds -- edited by Lucinda Vardey / First Thought, Best Thought -- Chogyam Trungpa / Walden -- Henry David Thoreau / World Almanac--2008, or earlier / Superfoods Rx--14 foods....-- Steven Pratt / Back on the Fire -- Gary Snyder / Stiff -- Mary Roach / Banana -- Dan Koeppel / Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver / Many books about Tibet / Blood and Thunder -- Hampton Sides / The Civil War (3 volumes) -- Shelby Foote / Eat, Pray, Love -- Elizabeth Gilbert / Mountains beyond Mountains -- Tracy Kidder / The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali