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Books (Fiction)

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami [Buy It!]
• A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong [Buy It!]
• A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré [Buy It!]
• A Gun for Sale by Graham Green [Buy It!]
• A Hero of France by Alan Furst [Buy It!]
• A Nasty Anecdote by Fyodor Dostoevsky [Buy It!]
• At the End of a Dull Day by Massimo Carlotto [Buy It!]
• Black Collar by Daniel Sullivan [Buy It!]
• Blackout & All Clear by Connie Willis [Buy It!]
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley [Buy It!]
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick [Buy It!]
• Double Star by Robert Heinlein
• Dune by Frank Herbert [Buy It!]
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [Buy It!]
• Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov [Buy It!]
• Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman [Buy It!]
• Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke [Buy It!]
• Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon [Buy It!]
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka [Buy It!]
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie [Buy It!]
• Orient Express by Graham Greene [Buy It!]
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene [Buy It!]
• Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler [Buy It!]
• Rama Series by Arthur C. Clarke [Buy them! [1][2][3][4]]
• Raymond Chandler’s entire bibliography [Buy It!]
• Sidetracked & Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell [Buy It!]
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse [Buy It!]
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein [Buy It!]
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow [Buy It!]
• The Circle by Dave Eggers [Buy It!]
• The City & The City by China Miéville [Buy It!]
• The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré [Buy It!]
• The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick [Buy It!]
• The Damascus Cover by Howard Kaplan [Buy It!]
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin [Buy It!]
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman [Buy It!]
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins [Buy It!]
• The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke [Buy It!]
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett [Buy It!]
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick [Buy It!]
• The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold [Buy It!]
• The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong [Buy It!]
• The Martian by Andy Weir [Buy It!]
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson [Buy It!]
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth [Buy It!]
• The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl & Cyril M. Kornbluth [Buy It!]
• The Space Traders by Derrick Bell
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Trilogy by John Le Carré [Buy It!]
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin [Buy It!]
• Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon [Buy It!]
• Zodiac by Neal Stephenson [Buy It!]

Books (Non-Fiction)

• Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull [Buy It!]
• Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich [Buy It!]
• Cable News Confidential by Jeff Cohen [Buy It!]
• Censored 2013 [Buy It!]
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan [Buy It!]
• Don’t Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff [Buy It!]
• How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer [Buy It!]
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan [Buy It!]
• Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant [Buy It!]
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [Buy It!]
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely [Buy It!]
• Rights from Wrongs by Alan Dershowitz [Buy It!]
• The Information by James Gleick [Buy It!]
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham [Buy It!]
• The Predictioneer’s Game by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita [Buy It!]
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman [Buy It!]
• Waves of Rancor by Hillard and Keith [Buy It!]
• What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell [Buy It!]

Documentaries, Films & TV Shows

• 30 for 30: Broke [Buy/Stream It!]
• 30 for 30: The Two Escobars [Buy/Stream It!]
• Accidental Courtesy [Buy/Stream It!]
• American Jesus [Buy/Stream It!]
• An Honest Liar [Buy/Stream It!]
• Antarctica: A Year on Ice [Buy/Stream It!]
• (A)Sexual
• Best of Enemies [Buy/Stream It!]
• Bigger, Stronger, Faster* [Buy/Stream It!]
• Big Men [Buy/Stream It!]
• Bloodline (Netflix Original)
• Burt’s Buzz [Buy/Stream It!]
• Childhood’s End
• Citizen Koch [Buy/Stream It!]
• Client Number 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer [Buy/Stream It!]
• Closure [Buy/Stream It!]
• Cowspiracy
• Dear Mr. Watterson [Buy/Stream It!]
• Dear Zachary [Buy/Stream It!]
• Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyonyang
• (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies [Buy/Stream It!]
• Email Order Bride
• Ex Machina
• First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon
• Foodies: The Culinary Jet Set [Buy/Stream It!]
• Gideon’s Army [Buy/Stream It!]
• God Loves Uganda [Buy/Stream It!]
• Hating Breitbart [Buy/Stream It!]
• Hitler’s Children [Buy/Stream It!]
• Holy Hell [Buy/Stream It!]
• Holy Rollers [Buy/Stream It!]
• Hotline [Buy/Stream It!]
• Into the Abyss [Buy/Stream It!]
• JFK: The Smoking Gun [Buy/Stream It!]
• K2: Siren of the Himalayas [Buy/Stream It!]
• Kevorkian [Buy/Stream It!]
• Killing them Softly [Buy/Stream It!]
• Kumaré the Fake Guru [Buy/Stream It!]
• Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story [Buy/Stream It!]
• League of Denial [Buy/Stream It!]
• Life 2.0 [Buy/Stream It!]
• Making a Murderer (Netflix Original)
• Mirage Men [Buy/Stream It!]
• Monk with a Camera
• More Than Honey [Buy/Stream It]
• Oasis [Buy/Stream It!]
• On the Way to School
• Pervert Park [Buy/Stream It!]
• Plastic Paradise [Buy/Stream It!]
• Poverty, Inc. [Buy/Stream It!]
• Print the Legend
• Religulous [Buy/Stream It!]
• Remote Area Medical [Buy/Stream It!]
• Rich Hill [Buy/Stream It!]
• Saudi Arabia Uncovered [Buy/Stream It!]
• Secrets of a Vegas Whale
• Shuttle Discovery’s Last Mission
• Sins of my Father [Buy/Stream It!]
• Small is Beautiful: A Tiny House Documentary [Buy/Stream It!]
• Somm: Into the Bottle [Buy/Stream It!]
• Sour Grapes
• Spinning Plates [Buy/Stream It!]
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Steak Revolution [Buy/Stream It!]
• Sugar Coated
• Surviving Progress [Buy/Stream It!]
• Terms & Conditions May Apply [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Champions [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Fall
• The God Who Wasn’t There [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Green Prince [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Hacker Wars [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Immortalists [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Ivory Game [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Man in the High Castle
• The Martian
• The Mask You Live In [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Overnighters [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Propaganda Game [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Search for General Tso
• The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
• The Sheik [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Story of Maths [Buy/Stream It!]
• The True Cost [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Unbelievers [Buy/Stream It!]
• The Vasectomist
• Tiny: A Story About Living Small [Buy/Stream It!]
• Trophy Kids: [Buy/Stream It!]
• Tony Robbins: I Am Not You Guru [Buy/Stream It!]
• Top Spin [Buy/Stream It!]
• Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard [Buy/Stream It!]
• Twinsters

Everything Else

• All the Way with Bryan Cranston
• Whatsoever Things Are True by Matthew Shaer [Read It]