Stuff I Would Recommend (May 2025)

Higher up in the list, the more recently I read / watched / bought it.

Books

Non-Fiction

  • LikeWar by Emerson T. Brooking and P. W. Singer
  • Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • The Notebook: A History of Thinking On Paper by Roland Allen
  • Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Hermand and Noam Chomsky
  • Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • Number Go Up by Zeke Faux

Fiction

  • The Wandering Earth (short story collection) by Cixin Liu
  • Works of Exile and Illusion (short works collection) by Ursula K. Leguin
  • Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
  • Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin
  • Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Exhalation (short story collection) by Ted Chiang
  • Stories of Your Life and Others (short story collection) by Ted Chiang
  • Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Movies tbd

Shows

  • Severance
  • All of the thriller / horror series from Mike Flanagan (Fall of the House of the Ushers > Midnight Mass > The Haunting of Hill House > The Midnight Club > The Haunting of Bly Manor)
  • Normal People
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Crashing
  • Fleabag (Season 2 > Season 1)
  • Band of Brothers
  • Chernobyl (HBO)
  • How I Met Your Mother

Random things tbd