Communicating through books

Maybe it was because Mom and Dad were both librarians, but we all seem(ed) to communicate a lot through giving each other books (and movies and music) we cared about. Some of them only mean(t) something to two people, some mean(t) a lot to everyone. Maybe others can remember more than I do right now, and add to the list, but here are some (by no means all) I'm pretty sure one person introduced to another (I could be way off ):

Wes gave:

• A lot of music: Dave Clark Five, the Cream, Neil Young (and CSNY), Gerry & the Pacemakers,
  
• Three Men in a Boat
• Wodehouse (I think)
• O'Brian
• Jack Vance
• The Witches of Karres!!!
• The Russian film version of War & Peace
• Lovecraft, and Lovecraft, and then, of course, Lovecraft
• Joseph Conrad
• A. E. van Vogt
• Rumpole, for the Defense
• the OED
• The Tree Where Man Was Born
• Anna Karenina
• Miss Pickerell
• H.G. Wells
  

Marina gave:

• Camelot
• Man for All Seasons
• Sinister Seymour (Attack of the Mushroom People [and Pizza Fella], among others
  
• Khaled
• The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
• Bela Lugosi
• Beckett & A Lion in Winter?
• Shelley
  

Mom gave:

• Gone With the Wind, of course
• Shirley Jackson
• Andre Norton
• The Secret of the Ninth Planet & Raiders from the Rings
• Kristin Lavransdotter
• Jules Verne
  

I gave:

• Judge Dee
• The Worm Ouroboros (and Lord Gro, most of all)
• Gormenghast
• Nevermore
• The Last Unicorn
• Face in the Frost
• Kai-Lung
• Lin Carter
• Dunsany
• William Morris
• Precious Mbotswe
• Jonny Quest
• Avram Davidson
• Abercrombie, Benjamin and Christopher
• Adventure (two brothers all over the world - Lion Adventure, Volcano Adventure, on and on and on)
• Ballantine Adult Fantasy, in general
• William Hope Hodgson, esp House on the Borderland
  

And things that just happened:

• The Great Race
• Get Smart
• Maya (and the famous back half of an elephant)
• Lord of the Rings
• 2001