Alexia Jacques-Casanova
Top ten books
“Flowers of Evil,” Charles Baudelaire.
“Dangerous Liaisons,” Choderlos de Laclos.
“My Father’s Glory,” Marcel Pagnol.
“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Gabriel García Marquez.
“The Prince,” Machiavelli.
“Socialism and Man in Cuba,” Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
“Julie, or the New Héloïse,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
“The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
“The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir.
“Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert.
Top ten movies
“La Vie est Belle,” Roberto Benigni
“La Haine,” Mathieu Kassovitz
“Amores Perros,” Alejandro González Iñárritu.
“La Mala Educación,” Pedro Almodovar.
“La Vie d’Adèle,” Abdelatif Kechiche.
“Un Chien Andalou,” Salvador Dalí & Luis Buñuel.
“Abre los Ojos,” Pedro Almodovar.
“Django Unchained,” Quentin Tarantino.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Milos Forman.
“Black Swan,” Darren Aronofsky.
Top ten albums
“A Night at the Opera,” Queen.
“Bad,” Michael Jackson.
“Random Access Memories,” Daft Punk.
“Discovery,” Daft Punk
“Fight For Your Mind,” Ben Harper.
“Afrodisiac,” Fela Kuti.
“Back to Black,” Amy Winehouse.
“Legend,” Bob Marley and the Wailers
“The Cole Porter Songbook,” Ella Fitzgerald.
“The Black Album,” Jay-Z
Top Ten Travel Destinations
Corsica, France.
Tulum, Mexico.
Marseille, France.
Guadalajara, Mexico.
Cinque Terre, Italy.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Nice, France.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Cambridge, England.
Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar 