favorite fiction that comes to mind:
- A Long Walk – Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachmann)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- The Rainmaker – John Grisham
- The Bartimaeus Sequence – Jonathan Stroud
- The Terror – Dan Simmons
- Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
- Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
- Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
some favorite nonfiction
- The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero – William Kalush
- Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping – Paco Underhill
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
- The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferriss
- Shake Hands With the Devil – Romeo Dallaire
- Stalin – Edvard Radzinsky
- The Rasputin File – Edvard Radzinsky
- Hollywood Animal – Joe Eszterhas
- Ghost in the Wires – Kevin Mitnick
some favorite movies / TV shows
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Martian
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
- Whiplash
- The Jinx
- The Descent
- The Honourable Woman
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Buried
- I Saw the Devil
- American Movie
- Dexter
- Fargo (the TV series)
- Cool Hand Luke
- all the documentaries by Louis Theroux
- The Cabin in the Woods
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Stranger Things
- The OA