Ok, I also haven`t done this yet, as I can`t come up with all the names of my favorite paintings... , but I`ll give it a start with my favoriute 25 books.
Madhuban inspired me 

In no definite order here are my 25 favorite books (tried to find english translations if possible). It was quite hard work pressing my memory to come up with the titles, and I may have forgotten some that are better than the ones mentioned (will edit it in the future). Listed alphabetically:

1984 - George Orwell
Aberystwyth Mon Amour - Malcolm Pryce
Almost transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
America - Franz Kafka
Andr Bazin - Dudley Andrew
Being Dead - Jim Crace
Desire under the Elms - Eugene O`Neill
Don Quijote - Miguel Cervantes
Entsichert: Krieg als Massenkultur im 21. Jahrhundert - Tom Holert, Mark Terkessidis
It - Stephen King
Moon Palace - Paul Auster
Nip the buds shoot the kids - Kenzaburo Oe
On Baile`s Strand - William Butler Yeats
Our inner Conflicts - Karen Horney
Pigeons on the Grass - Wolfgang Koeppen
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear - Walter Moers
The Bathroom - Jean-Philippe Toussaint
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker`s Guide through the Galaxy (all 5 novels combined) - Douglas Adams 
The Physicists - Friedrich Drrenmatt
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Thus spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Trnen sind immer das Ende - Akif Pirincci
What is cinema? - collections of essays by Andr Bazin
Writings by Jiddu Krishnamurti (doesn't matter which compilation)