Published: June 21, 2021

There’s no better time to indulge in books or shows that keep you on the edge of your seat or take you away in a fantasy land. We asked Buffs on our @CUBoulderLife and @CUHealthyBuffs Instagram accounts to tell us the series, podcasts or books we can’t miss this summer. Here’s what they shared.

Movies

  • Raya and the Last Dragon
  • Nomadland
  • Casablanca 
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • A Silent Voice
  • Along Came Polly
  • Army of the Dead
  • Begin Again
  • Bo Burnham: Inside
  • Chaos Walking
  • Chinatown
  • Cruella
  • Empire Records
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Hereditary
  • Interstellar
  • Justice League
  • La La Land
  • Legally Blonde
  • Marvel movies 

  • Meet the Parents
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Psycho
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Rocky Handsome
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Star Wars
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Gentlemen
  • The Pursuit of Happyness
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • The Sting
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Uncut Gems
  • Weathering with You

Podcasts

  • Red Web
  • Crime Junkie
  • Freakonomics Radio
  • Making Sense by Sam Harris
  • Chernobyl
  • Distractible
  • Hard Factor 
  • The Magnus Archives
  • Let’s Not Meet
  • Lex Fridman Podcast 
  • Lore
  • My Favorite Murder
  • Nice White Parents

  • The Dissenters
  • Revisionist History
  • Ologies with Alie Ward 
  • Stuff You Should Know
  • Sweet Boys
  • Hidden Brain
  • The Pebble Podcast
  • Two Hot Takes
  • Waking Up
  • Yang Speaks

TV Shows

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Breaking Bad
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • Mare of Easttown 
  • New Girl
  • Friends
  • Bridgerton
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  • Glee
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • I Am Not Okay With This
  • Invincible
  • Julie and the Phantoms
  • Kim's Convenience
  • Lost
  • Lucifer
  • Narcos
  • One Piece
  • Parks and Recreation

  • Private Practice
  • Roswell
  • Shadowhunters
  • Shadow and Bone
  • Station 19
  • Suits
  • Survivor
  • Ted Lasso
  • The 100
  • The Circle
  • The Good Doctor
  • The Last Kingdom
  • The Nevers
  • The Society
  • This Is Us
  • WandaVision
  • Wild Wild Country
  • Word of Honor
  • The X-Files
  • Younger

Books

  • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
  • Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness
  • Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
  • Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Live by Sadie Robertson
  • Lore by Alexandra Bracken
  • Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
  • Murder List by Julie Garwood
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
  • The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  • The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi
  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
  • The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
  • Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis 
  • Underland and Mountains of the Mind by Robert Mcfarlane
  • We Want to do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

For more ways to enjoy summer, check out events to attend, places to go and things to do. Visit the Student Affairs website and be sure to follow us @CUBoulderLife on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!