Shelf
What I read and watch, and the few I keep coming back to. Most of what I think did not start with me. It came from things like these, and this shelf is the part that stayed. If one of them sends you to something you are glad you found, that is the whole point.
Books
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
My first sci-fi book. Under all the science it is really about friendship and redemption.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Four hundred pages in three weeks.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Art of Spending Money
Morgan Housel
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Films
Fight Club
David Fincher, 1999
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan, 2014
Dune
Denis Villeneuve, 2021
Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve, 2017
The question floored me: can a life mean anything if you turn out to be no one special?
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir, 1989
Warrior
Gavin O'Connor, 2011
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant, 1997
The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont, 1994
No Country for Old Men
Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007
Drive
Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011
Slow and quiet, barely any action, and it still pulled me in. A man living by his own rules.
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino, 2012
Anime
Hajime no Ippo
George Morikawa
I avoided old anime until this one. Not boxing: courage, brotherhood, and taking a loss.
Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
The small things no one else bothers with are the whole point here. An experience, not a story.
100 Meters
An easy nine, and it named why winning has come to matter less to me than the race.
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
Uoto, 2024
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, 2023
Jujutsu Kaisen
Gege Akutami, 2020
Hunter x Hunter
Yoshihiro Togashi, 2011
Re:Zero
Tappei Nagatsuki, 2016
Mushoku Tensei
Rifujin na Magonote, 2021
The Eminence in Shadow
Daisuke Aizawa, 2022
A comedy I keep coming back to, one of the few I have rewatched many times.