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Books (Fiction)
- 1984 by George Orwell
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong
- A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
- A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré
- A Gun for Sale by Graham Green
- A Hero of France by Alan Furst
- A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
- A Nasty Anecdote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- At the End of a Dull Day by Massimo Carlotto
- Avogadro Corp by William Hertling
- Bandwidth by Eliot Peper
- Black Collar by Daniel Sullivan
- Blackout & All Clear by Connie Willis
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
- Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Delta V by Daniel Suarez
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- Double Star by Robert Heinlein
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
- Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
- Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
- Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
- Infomocracy by Malka Older
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
- Lock In by John Scalzi
- Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Orient Express by Graham Greene
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler
- Rama Series by Arthur C. Clarke
- Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge
- Raymond Chandler’s entire bibliography
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Sidetracked & Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- The City & The City by China Miéville
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte
- The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick
- The Damascus Cover by Howard Kaplan
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
- The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
- The Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
- The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Nix by Nathan Hill
- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- The Outsider by Stephen King
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl & Cyril M. Kornbluth
- The Space Traders by Derrick Bell
- The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carré
- The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Th1rte3n by Richard K. Morgan
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Trilogy by John Le Carré
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
- Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
Books (Non-Fiction)
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull
- American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Beyond Religion: Ethics for the Whole World by the Dalai Lama
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
- Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking
- Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
- Cable News Confidential by Jeff Cohen
- Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Don’t Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
- Donnie Brasco by Joseph Pistone
- Flim Flam by James Randi
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
- Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett
- Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller
- Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
- Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- Narconomics by Tom Wainwright
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
- Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Priced Out by Uwe Reinhardt
- Principles of Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- Rights from Wrongs by Alan Dershowitz
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
- The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
- The Information by James Gleick
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
- The Predictioneer’s Game by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- The Pretender by Marc Ruskin
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Vital Question by Nick Lane
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
- Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
- Uneasy Street by Rachel Sherman
- Waves of Rancor by Hillard and Keith
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
- What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
- Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim
Documentaries, Films & TV Shows
- 30 for 30: Broke
- 30 for 30: The Two Escobars
- Accidental Courtesy
- American Jesus
- An Honest Liar
- Antarctica: A Year on Ice
- (A)Sexual
- Best of Enemies
- Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
- Big Men
- Bloodline (Netflix Original)
- Burt’s Buzz
- Childhood’s End
- Citizen Koch
- Client Number 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
- Closure
- Cowspiracy
- Dear Mr. Watterson
- Dear Zachary
- Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyonyang
- (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
- Email Order Bride
- Ex Machina
- First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon
- Foodies: The Culinary Jet Set
- Gideon’s Army
- God Loves Uganda
- Hating Breitbart
- Hitler’s Children
- Holy Hell
- Holy Rollers
- Hotline
- Into the Abyss
- JFK: The Smoking Gun
- K2: Siren of the Himalayas
- Kevorkian
- Killing them Softly
- Kumaré the Fake Guru
- Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story
- League of Denial
- Life 2.0
- Making a Murderer (Netflix Original)
- Mirage Men
- Monk with a Camera
- More Than Honey
- Oasis
- On the Way to School
- Pervert Park
- Plastic Paradise
- Poverty, Inc.
- Print the Legend
- Religulous
- Remote Area Medical
- Rich Hill
- Saudi Arabia Uncovered
- Secrets of a Vegas Whale
- Shuttle Discovery’s Last Mission
- Sins of my Father
- Small is Beautiful: A Tiny House Documentary
- Somm: Into the Bottle
- Sour Grapes
- Spinning Plates
- Steak Revolution
- Sugar Coated
- Surviving Progress
- Terms & Conditions May Apply
- The Champions
- The Fall
- The God Who Wasn’t There
- The Green Prince
- The Hacker Wars
- The Immortalists
- The Ivory Game
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Martian
- The Mask You Live In
- The Overnighters
- The Propaganda Game
- The Search for General Tso
- The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
- The Sheik
- The Story of Maths
- The True Cost
- The Unbelievers
- The Vasectomist
- Tiny: A Story About Living Small
- Trophy Kids
- Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
- Top Spin
- Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard
- Twinsters
Everything Else
- All the Way with Bryan Cranston
- Whatsoever Things Are True by Matthew Shaer