Student Picks: Book and Movie Recommendations

Imagine: the rain taps against the window, your favorite drink is in hand, and you’re cozied up with a blanket on the sofa. The environment is perfect for consuming a book, movie, and TV show (or all three). But what shall you read/watch?

In our survey, OHS students answered this question. Here is what they had to say about their favorite books, movies, and TV shows:

If OHS a “student watch/read list,” what HAS to be on it?

Books: 

  • The Screaming Staircase (#1 in Lockwood and Co) for books

  • Good Omens

  • Project Hail Mary (The movie is coming out in March 2026)

  • Murderbot Diaries

  • Klara and the Sun

Movies/shows:

  • One Piece

  • BBC Sherlock

  • Doctor Who

  • Frieren

  • Kpop Demon Hunters

  • Bluey

  • The Truman Show

Comfort read/watch?

Books:

  • The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • Good Omens

  • The Westing Game

  • The Phantom Tolbooth

  • Little Women

  • The Beginning After the End

  • Sleepy Hollow

  • Foolproof

Movies/TV shows:

  • Downtown Abbey

  • BBC Sherlock

  • Infested

  • Young Sheldon

  • Perks of being a wallflower

What books would you recommend?

  • Portrait of a Thief

  • The Lockwood & Co series by Jonathan Stroud

  • The Loop trilogy by Ben Oliver

  • Impossible creatures 

  • Green Glass House

What movies/shows would you recommend?

  • Tour de France: Unchained

  • Bullet Train

  • The Last of Us

  • Arcane

  • The Lincoln Lawyer

  • Gattaca

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