Books (makes most sense to read in sequence)
- The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline, George Packer
- Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, Jared M. Diamond
- Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America Book 72), Louis Hyman
- The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us, Nicholas Carr
- The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, Jonathan Eig
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
Following, in any sequence
- A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1: 1469-1838, Khushwant Singh
- The Tale of Genji (Dover Thrift Editions), Lady Murasaki
- Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear, Dr. Frank Luntz
- Cats Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh
- The Wealth of Nations(Illustrated and Bundled with An Essay on the Principle of Population), Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, Timeless Books
- The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling
- In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating, Michael Pollan
Movies
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Joker (I) (2019)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Inception (2010)
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- The Matrix (1999)
- City of God (2002)
- Life Is Beautiful (1997)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Star Wars (1977)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- The Green Mile (1999)
- Interstellar (2014)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- The Intouchables (2011)
- Psycho (1960)
- Gladiator (2000)
- The Departed (2006)
- Whiplash (2014)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Alien (1979)
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Memento (2000)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Django Unchained (2012)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
- WALL·E (2008)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Old Boy (2003)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Parasite (2019)
- Aliens (1986)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Braveheart (1995)
- 3 Idiots (2009)
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)