Films
Books
| Book | ||
|---|---|---|
 Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke | 1922 | ★★★★★ |
 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño | 1998 | ★★★★★ |
 Bad Behavior Mary Gaitskill | 1988 | ★★★★★ |
 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Angela Carter | 1979 | ★★★★★ |
 The Mezzanine (Vintage Contemporaries) Nicholson Baker | 1988 | ★★★★★ |
 The Bell Iris Murdoch | 1958 | ★★★★★ |
 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain George Saunders | 2021 | ★★★★★ |
 Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Robert Kolker | 2020 | ★★★★★ |
 The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley | 1956 | ★★★★★ |
 The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin | 1970 | ★★★★★ |
 Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing Robert A. Caro | 2019 | ★★★★★ |
 Journey by Moonlight Antal Szerb | 1937 | ★★★★★ |
 Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) Liu Cixin | 2010 | ★★★★★ |
 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) Liu Cixin | 2006 | ★★★★★ |
 Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin | 1956 | ★★★★★ |
 Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | ★★★★★ |
 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | ★★★★★ |
 Brave New World Aldous Huxley | 1932 | ★★★★★ |
 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | ★★★★★ |
 The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell Aldous Huxley | 1956 | ★★★★★ |
 Of Mice and Men Kevin Hinkle | ★★★★★ | |
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide Thomas Fahy | 2003 | ★★★★★ |
 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende | 1982 | ★★★★★ |
 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind | 1985 | ★★★★★ |
 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick | 1968 | ★★★★★ |
 The Time Machine H.G. Wells | 1895 | ★★★★★ |
 Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle Harold Bloom | 2002 | ★★★★★ |
 Ubik Philip K. Dick | 1969 | ★★★★★ |
 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole | 1980 | ★★★★★ |
 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson | 1971 | ★★★★★ |
 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen | 1879 | ★★★★★ |
 Othello William Shakespeare | 1603 | ★★★★★ |
 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett | 1951 | ★★★★★ |
 Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) Chinua Achebe | 1958 | ★★★★★ |
 The Plague Albert Camus | 1947 | ★★★★★ |
 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams | 1947 | ★★★★★ |
 Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1963 | ★★★★★ |
 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh | 2018 | ★★★★★ |
 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera | 1984 | ★★★★★ |
 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath | 1963 | ★★★★★ |
 Lord of the Flies William Golding | 1954 | ★★★★★ |
 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman | 1985 | ★★★★★ |
 Here Is New York E.B. White | 1948 | ★★★★ |
 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard | 1974 | ★★★★ |
 The Karamazov Brothers (Ignat Avsey trans.) Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1879 | ★★★★ |
 Bluets Maggie Nelson | 2009 | ★★★★ |
 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates | 1961 | ★★★★ |
 Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill | 2014 | ★★★★ |
 Simple Passion Annie Ernaux | 1991 | ★★★★ |
 Speedboat Renata Adler | 1976 | ★★★★ |
 Light Years James Salter | 1975 | ★★★★ |
 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West | 1939 | ★★★★ |
 What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] Zoë Heller | 2003 | ★★★★ |
 On the Edge of Reason (Revived Modern Classic) Miroslav Krleža | 1938 | ★★★★ |
 Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change Tao Lin | 2018 | ★★★★ |
 So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell | 1980 | ★★★★ |
 The Machine Stops E.M. Forster | 1909 | ★★★★ |
 Rejection Tony Tulathimutte | 2024 | ★★★★ |
 Near to the Wild Heart Clarice Lispector | 1943 | ★★★★ |
 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet John Green | 2021 | ★★★★ |
 When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut | 2020 | ★★★★ |
 The Other Wind Ursula K. Le Guin | 2001 | ★★★★ |
 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin | 1990 | ★★★★ |
 The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin | 1972 | ★★★★ |
 Dune (Dune, #1) Frank Herbert | 1965 | ★★★★ |
 Dune Messiah (Dune #2) Frank Herbert | 1969 | ★★★★ |
 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller | 2011 | ★★★★ |
 A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin | 1968 | ★★★★ |
 Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins | 2016 | ★★★★ |
 Stoner John Williams | 1965 | ★★★★ |
 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1973 | ★★★★ |
 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman | 1985 | ★★★★ |
 Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory Raphael Bob-Waksberg | 2019 | ★★★★ |
 Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art) C. Thi Nguyen | ★★★★ | |
 Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2015 | ★★★★ |
 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde | 1895 | ★★★★ |
 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1965 | ★★★★ |
 Confabulations John Berger | 2016 | ★★★★ |
 The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) Liu Cixin | 2008 | ★★★★ |
 Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card | 1985 | ★★★★ |
 Under the Net Iris Murdoch | 1954 | ★★★★ |
 City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1) Paul Auster | 1985 | ★★★★ |
 Woman on the Edge of Time Marge Piercy | 1976 | ★★★★ |
 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death Jean-Dominique Bauby | 1997 | ★★★★ |
 Ignorance Milan Kundera | 2000 | ★★★★ |
 Tenth of December George Saunders | 2013 | ★★★★ |
 Revenge Yōko Ogawa | 1998 | ★★★★ |
 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi | 1990 | ★★★★ |
 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse | 1922 | ★★★★ |
 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger | 1951 | ★★★★ |
 Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski | 1982 | ★★★★ |
 Catch-22 Joseph Heller | 1961 | ★★★★ |
 A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry | 1959 | ★★★★ |
 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2006 | ★★★★ |
 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway | 1952 | ★★★★ |
 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini | 2007 | ★★★★ |
 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde | 1890 | ★★★★ |
 Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 1818 | ★★★★ |
 Life of Pi Yann Martel | 2001 | ★★★★ |
 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 | ★★★★ |
 Animal Farm George Orwell | 1945 | ★★★★ |
 1984 George Orwell | 1948 | ★★★★ |
 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee | 1960 | ★★★★ |
 A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson | 2003 | ★★★★ |
Listening
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Monthly mixes
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