Lists

Books (makes most sense to read in sequence)

1. The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline, George Packer
2. Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, Jared M. Diamond
3. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America Book 72), Louis Hyman
4. The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us, Nicholas Carr
5. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, Jonathan Eig
6. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
7. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari

Following, in any sequence

1. A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1: 1469-1838, Khushwant Singh
2. The Tale of Genji (Dover Thrift Editions), Lady Murasaki
3. Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear, Dr. Frank Luntz
4. Cats Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
5. Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh
6. The Wealth of Nations(Illustrated and Bundled with An Essay on the Principle of Population), Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, Timeless Books
7. The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling
8. In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating, Michael Pollan

Movies

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
7. Fight Club (1999)
8. Joker (I) (2019)
9. Forrest Gump (1994)
10. Inception (2010)
11. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
12. The Matrix (1999)
13. City of God (2002)
14. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
15. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
16. Star Wars (1977)
17. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
18. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
19. Spirited Away (2001)
20. The Green Mile (1999)
21. Interstellar (2014)
22. The Usual Suspects (1995)
23. The Lion King (1994)
24. Back to the Future (1985)
25. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
26. The Intouchables (2011)
27. Psycho (1960)
28. Gladiator (2000)
29. The Departed (2006)
30. Whiplash (2014)
31. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
32. The Prestige (2006)
33. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
34. Casablanca (1942)
35. Rear Window (1954)
36. Alien (1979)
37. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
38. Memento (2000)
39. Apocalypse Now (1979)
40. The Great Dictator (1940)
41. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
42. Django Unchained (2012)
43. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
44. WALL·E (2008)
45. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
46. Old Boy (2003)
47. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
48. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
49. Parasite (2019)
50. Aliens (1986)
51. American Beauty (1999)
52. Braveheart (1995)
53. 3 Idiots (2009)
54. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
55. Toy Story (1995)
56. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
57. Good Will Hunting (1997)
58. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
59. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
60. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
61. Citizen Kane (1941)
62. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
63. North by Northwest (1959)
64. A Clockwork Orange (1971)