The Best "x" Of All Time
A list of lists, mostly for me to work my way through or just get inspiration from in those, "Oh hell, what can I watch / read ..." times.
Oh, and you don't like these lists, it's ok there's millions out there for you to look at, or even go ahead and make your own. These'll do me for now.
The 30 Greatest Book Series Of All Time
30. The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey
29. The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
28. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
27. The Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown
26. Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
25. Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud
24. The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfus
23. Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
22. The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski
21. The Belgariad by David Eddings ✅
20. The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
19. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
18. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
17. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
16. Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
15. The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym)
14. The Foundation series By Isaac Asimov ✅
13. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ✅
12. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman ✅
11. The Dark Tower by Stephen King ✅
10. Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
9. Discworld by Terry Pratchett ✅
8. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
7. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
6. Fifty Shades by E. L. James❓
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
3. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis ✅
2. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien ✅
1. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling ✅
The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time
150. Tank Girl (1995)
149. The Omega Man (1971)
148. Demolition Man (1993)
147. Species (1995)
146. The Running Man (1987) ✅
145. The Last Starfighter (1984) ✅
144. The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) ✅
143. Men in Black (1997) ✅
142. Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
141. Idiocracy (2006)
140. Dune (1984) ✅
139. Independence Day (1996) ✅
138. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
137. Zardoz (1974)
136. Tron (1982) ✅
135. Repo Man (1984)
134. Born in Flames (1983)
133. District 9 (2009) ✅
132. 2046 (2004)
131. Ad Astra (2019) ✅
130. The Fifth Element (1997) ✅
129. Never Let Me Go (2010)
128. Time After Time (1979) ✅
127. World on a Wire (1973)
126. God Told Me To (1976)
125. Things to Come (1936) ✅
124. Attack the Block (2011) ✅
123. Phase IV (1974)
122. Time Bandits (1981) ✅
121. Pi (1998)
120. Dark City (1998) ✅
119. The Time Machine (1960) ✅
118. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) ✅
117. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) ✅
116. The Vast of Night (2019)
115. Rogue One (2016) ✅
114. Them! (1954)
113. Death Race 2000 (1975)
112. Gattaca (1997) ✅
111. Serenity (2005) ✅
110. Existenz (1999)
109. Barbarella (1968) ✅
108. Invaders from Mars (1953)
107. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) ✅
106. Jurassic Park (1993) ✅
105. After Yang (2021)
104. Destination Moon (1950)
103. Space Is the Place (1974)
102. This Island Earth (1955)
101. Westworld (1973) ✅
100. Starman (1984)
99. Predator (1987) ✅
98. Rollerball (1975) ✅
97. Soylent Green (1973) ✅
96. Another Earth (2011)
95. Silent Running (1972)
94. The Iron Giant (1999) ✅
93. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) ✅
92. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
91. Dark Star (1974)
90. Cloverfield (2008) ✅
89. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
88. Scanners (1981)
87. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) ✅
86. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) ✅
85. Sunshine (2007)
84. Paprika (2006)
83. THX 1138 (1971) ✅
82. Strange Days (1995)
81. Day of the Triffids (1963) ✅
80. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) ✅
79. Galaxy Quest (1999) ✅
78. Nope (2022) ✅
77. High Life (2018)
76. Donnie Darko (2001)
75. The Host (2006)
74. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) ✅
73. Total Recall (1990) ✅
72. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
71. Logan’s Run (1976) ✅
70. Escape From New York (1981) ✅
69. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
68. The Andromeda Strain (1971) ✅
67. Fantastic Planet (1973)
66. Liquid Sky (1982)
65. Annihilation (2018) ✅
64. Interstellar (2014) ✅
63. Avatar (2009) ✅
62. Contact (1997) ✅
61. 12 Monkeys (1995 ✅)
60. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ✅
59. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
58. Robocop (1987) ✅
57. Moon (2009)
56. Primer (2004)
55. Seconds (1966)
54. War of the Worlds (2005) ✅
53. Dune: Part 1 (2021) ✅
52. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
51. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982) ✅
50. The Martian (2013) ✅
49. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ✅
48. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) ✅
47. Looper (2012) ✅
46. The Brother From Another Planet (1984)
45. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
44. Gravity (2013) ✅
43. They Live (1988)
42. Back to the Future (1985) ✅
41. Videodrome (1983)
40. The Terminator (1984) ✅
39. WALL-E (2008) ✅
38. Inception (2010) ✅
37. Godzilla (1954) ✅
36. Forbidden Planet (1956)
35. Her (2013) ✅
34. Aliens (1986) ✅
33. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
32. Akira (1988) ✅
31. La Jetée (1962)
30. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ✅
29. Ex Machina (2014) ✅
28. Brazil (1985) ✅
27. Alphaville (1965)
26. The Fly (1986) ✅
25. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
24. Minority Report (2002) ✅
23. Snowpiercer (2013) ✅
22. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ✅
21. The Thing (1982) ✅
20. Solaris (1972) ✅
19. Planet of the Apes (1968) ✅
18. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
17. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) ✅
15. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ✅
14. Arrival (2016) ✅
13. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
12. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) ✅
11. Starship Troopers (1997) ✅
10. The Matrix (1999) ✅
9. Star Wars (1977) ✅
8. Metropolis (1927) ✅
7. Children of Men (2006) ✅
6. Under the Skin (2013) ✅
5. Alien (1979) ✅
4. Blade Runner (1982) ✅
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ✅
2. Stalker (1979)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ✅
The 30 Must Read Mystery Books of All Time
29. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle ✅
28. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris ✅
27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ✅
26. The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
25. Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
24. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
23. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
22. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ✅
21. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
20. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
19. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
18. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré ✅
17. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
16. In the Woods by Tana French
15. The Alienist by Caleb Carr ✅
14. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
13. Killing Floor by Lee Child
12. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
11. The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco ✅
10. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe ✅
9. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
8. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré ✅
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie ✅
6. The Godfather by Mario Puzo ✅
5. My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura
4. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
2. Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The 100 best nonfiction books of all time
1. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
3. No Logo by Naomi Klein (1999)
4. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998)
5. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995)
6. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988) ✅
7. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)
8. Orientalism by Edward Said (1978)
9. Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977)
10. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976) ✅
11. North by Seamus Heaney (1975)
12. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1973)
13. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970)
14. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom by Nik Cohn (1969)
15. The Double Helix by James D Watson (1968)
16. Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (1966)
17. Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965)
18. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
19. The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson (1963)
20. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn (1962)
22. A Grief Observed by CS Lewis (1961)
23. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White (1959)
24. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)
25. The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart (1957)
26. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
27. The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art by Kenneth Clark (1956)
28. The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin (1953)
29. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952/53) ✅
30. A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David (1950)
31. The Great Tradition by FR Leavis (1948)
32. The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1947)
33. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
34. Hiroshima by John Hersey (1946)
35. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1945)
36. Black Boy by Richard Wright (1945)
37. How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher (1942)
38. Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly (1938)
39. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)
40. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (1937)
41. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
42. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1933)
43. My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill (1930)
44. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
45. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
46. The Waste Land by TS Eliot (1922)
47. Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1919)
48. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (1919)
49. The American Language by HL Mencken (1919)
50. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)
51. The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois (1903)
52. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (1905)
53. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902)
54. Brief Lives by John Aubrey, edited by Andrew Clark (1898)
55. Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S Grant (1885)
56. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
57. Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)
58. Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear (1871)
59. Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold (1869)
60. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
61. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859)
62. The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (1857)
63. The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell (1857)
64. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
65. Thesaurus by Dr Peter Mark Roget (1852)
66. London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851)
67. Household Education by Harriet Martineau (1848)
68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)
69. Essays by RW Emerson (1841)
70. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope (1832)
71. An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster (1828)
72. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1822)
73. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807)
74. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park (1799) ✅
75. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
76. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
77. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD by James Boswell (1791)
78. Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)
79. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano (1789)
80. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White (1789)
81. The Federalist Papers by ‘Publius’ (1788)
82. The Diary of Fanny Burney (1778)
83. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776-1788)
84. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
85. Common Sense by Tom Paine (1776)
86. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755)
87. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1739)
88. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729)
89. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe (1727)
90. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689)
91. The Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer (1662)
92. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1660) ✅
93. Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk by Sir Thomas Browne (1658)
94. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
95. Areopagitica by John Milton (1644)
96. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne (1624)
97. The First Folio by William Shakespeare (1623) ✅
98. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1621)
99. The History of the World by Walter Raleigh (1614)
100. King James Bible: The Authorised Version (1611) ✅
The 35 Greatest Westerns of All Time
1. Stagecoach (1939) ✅
2. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
3. My Darling Clementine (1946)
4. Pursued (1947)
5. Red River (1948)
6. Winchester '73 (1950)
7. High Noon (1952) ✅
8. Shane (1953) ✅
9. Johnny Guitar (1954)
10. Vera Cruz (1954)
11. The Searchers (1956) ✅
12. Seven Men From Now (1956)
13. Forty Guns (1957)
14. Rio Bravo (1959) ✅
15. The Magnificent Seven (1960) ✅
16. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
17. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) ✅
18. Django (1966)
19. The Shooting (1966)
20. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) ✅
21. The Wild Bunch (1969) ✅
22. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) ✅
23. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
24. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
25. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) ✅
26. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) ✅
27. Unforgiven (1992) ✅
28. Tombstone (1993) ✅
29. The Quick and the Dead (1995)
30. Dead Man (1995)
31. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
32. No Country for Old Men (2007)
33. Meek's Cutoff (2010)
34. Hell or High Water (2016)
35. The Power of the Dog (2021) ❎
The 25 Best Heist Movies of All Time
25. Baby Driver (2017) ✅
24. The Town (2010)
23. The Italian Job (1969) ✅
22. Fast Five (2011)
21. Logan Lucky (2017)
20. Ronin (1998)
19. Bottle Rocket (1996)
18. Sexy Beast (2000)
17. Inside Man (2006)
16. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) ✅
15. The Bank Job (2008)
14. Heat (1995) ✅
13. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
12. The Usual Suspects (1995) ✅
11. Quick Change (1990)
10. Reservoir Dogs (1992) ✅
9. Three Kings (1999)
8. The Sting (1973) ✅
7. Jackie Brown (1997) ✅
6. Out of Sight (1998)
5. Inception (2010) ✅
4. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) ✅
3. Rififi (1955)
2. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ✅
1. The Killing (1956) ✅
The Best Thrillers of All Time
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
The Martian by Andy Weir
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Rizzoli & Isles: Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen
The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Out (Special Edition) by Natsuo Kirino
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Maid by Nita Prose
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Shining by Stephen King ✅
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition) by Chester Himes
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
In the Woods by Tana French
My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa
We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ✅
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
Lullaby / The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
Lady Joker, Volume 1 by Kaoru Takamura
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré ✅
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Plotters by Kim Un-su
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time
A Trip To The Moon (1902) ✅
The House Of Ghosts (1906)
Faust (1926)
Metropolis (1927) ✅
King Kong (1933) ✅
Things To Come (1936) ✅
The Wizard Of Oz (1939) ✅
Citizen Kane (1941) ✅
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
Godzilla (1954) ✅
The Ten Commandments (1956) ✅
Jason And The Argonauts (1963) ✅
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ✅
Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968) ✅
Eraserhead (1977)
Star Wars (1977) ✅
Alien (1979) ✅
The Beyond (1981)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
The Thing (1982) ✅
The Dark Crystal (1982) ✅
Day Of The Dead (1985)
Brazil (1985) ✅
The Fly (1985) ✅
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) ✅
Dead Ringers (1988)
Society (1989)
Terminator 2 (1991) ✅
Batman Returns (1992) ✅
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) ✅
Jurassic Park (1993) ✅
Forrest Gump (1994) ✅
Independence Day (1996) ✅
The Matrix (1999) ✅
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ✅
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) ✅
Children Of Men (2006) ✅
Speed Racer (2008)
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008) ✅
Enter The Void (2009)
Inception (2010) ✅
The Tree Of Life (2011) ✅
Gravity (2013) ✅
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2015) ✅
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ✅
The Walk (2015)
Doctor Strange (2016) ✅
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