My favourite books, movies and TV shows.
Books
Fiction
- Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons
- The Stand – Stephen King
- Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brönte
- Anna Karenina, Hadj Murat – Leon Tolstoy
- Dune I-III – Frank Herbert
- Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- Exhalation, Stories of Your Life – Ted Chiang
- Never Let Me Go, Klara and The Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Beneath the Wheel – Herman Hesse
- Mistborn Series – Brandon Sanderson
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Poetry
- Anthems for Doomed Youth – Wilfred Owen
- Collected Poems – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Non-Fiction
General
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
- Incerto – Nassim Taleb
- Bad Blood – John Carreyrou
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- Creativity Inc. – Ed Catmull
Biography / Autobiography
- Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
- Montaigne – Stefan Zweig
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
- Surely You’re Joking – Richard Feynman
History
- The Romanovs – Simon Seabag-Montefiore
- Catherine the Great – Isabel de Madariaga
- Underground – Haruki Murakami
- The Tsar’s Last Armada – Constantine Pleshakov
- Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William Shirer
- Cold War – John Lewis Gaddis
Movies
- Blood Diamond (2006)
- Nolan’s Batman (2005-2012)
- Pirates of The Caribbean Trilogy (2003-2007)
- Before Trilogy (1995-2013)
- Interstellar (2014)
- The Social Network (2010)
- Match Point (2005)
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Mission Impossible I (1996)
- The Departed (2006)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Ocean’s 11 (2001)
- Matrix (1999)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Dazed & Confused (1993)
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- Rush (2013)
- The Gentlemen (2019)
- Sing Street (2016)
TV Shows
- Westworld
- Succession
- Industry
- Breaking Bad
- Game of Thrones
- Sherlock
- The Office
- Death Note
- The Boys
- White Lotus
- Ted Lasso
- Peaky Blinders
- Fleabag
- House
- Atlanta
- Mr Robot
- Person of Interest