{"id":484,"date":"2021-09-30T18:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:51:50","slug":"favourites-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=484","title":{"rendered":"Favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My favourite books, movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hyperion Cantos &#8211; Dan Simmons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Stand &#8211; Stephen King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foundation Series &#8211; Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte Br\u00f6nte <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anna Karenina, Hadj Murat &#8211; Leon Tolstoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dune I-III &#8211; Frank Herbert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flowers For Algernon &#8211; Daniel Keyes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exhalation, Stories of Your Life &#8211; Ted Chiang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Never Let Me Go, Klara and The Sun &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beneath the Wheel &#8211; Herman Hesse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mistborn Series &#8211; Brandon Sanderson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cryptonomicon &#8211; Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anthems for Doomed Youth &#8211; Wilfred Owen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collected Poems &#8211; Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning &#8211; Viktor Frankl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When Breath Becomes Air &#8211; Paul Kalanithi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incerto &#8211; Nassim Taleb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bad Blood &#8211; John Carreyrou<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zero to One &#8211; Peter Thiel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creativity Inc. &#8211; Ed Catmull<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Biography \/ Autobiography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Steve Jobs &#8211; Walter Isaacson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Montaigne &#8211; Stefan Zweig<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shoe Dog &#8211; Phil Knight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surely You&#8217;re Joking &#8211; Richard Feynman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Romanovs &#8211; Simon Seabag-Montefiore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Catherine the Great &#8211; Isabel de Madariaga<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Underground &#8211; Haruki Murakami<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Tsar&#8217;s Last Armada &#8211; Constantine Pleshakov<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rise and Fall of the Third Reich &#8211; William Shirer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cold War &#8211; John Lewis Gaddis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Movies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Blood Diamond (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nolan&#8217;s Batman (2005-2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pirates of The Caribbean Trilogy (2003-2007)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before Trilogy (1995-2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interstellar (2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Social Network (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Match Point (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good Will Hunting (1997)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gladiator (2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mission Impossible I (1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Departed (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Donnie Darko (2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lost in Translation (2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ocean&#8217;s 11 (2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matrix (1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fight Club (1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dazed &amp; Confused (1993)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oppenheimer (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rush (2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Gentlemen (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sing Street (2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TV Shows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Westworld<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Succession<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breaking Bad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game of Thrones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sherlock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Office<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Death Note<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Boys<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White Lotus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ted Lasso<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peaky Blinders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fleabag<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>House<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atlanta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr Robot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Person of Interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quarterly Favourites Newsletters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=721\">Q4 2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=719\">Q3 2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=717\">Q2 2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=715\">Q1 2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=713\">Q4 2024<\/a>   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peiroricard.com\/?page_id=710\">Q3 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite books, movies and TV shows. 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