Chirag's Lists

These books changed the way I think.

• Makers and Takers by Rana Faroohar
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
• An Afghanistan Picture Show by William T. Vollman
• The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

I love movies, so I have a long list of favorites. My favorite directors are Sean Baker, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Spike Lee.

• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Possession (1981)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Da 5 Bloods (2020)
• The Hand of God (2021)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)
• Fargo (1996)
• True Grit (2010)
• The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Magnolia (1999)
• Minority Report (2002)
• In Bruges (2008)
• The Lobster (2015)
• Creep (2014)
• Creep 2 (2017)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Mad Max Fury Road (2015)
• Beanpole (2019)
• The Farewell (2019)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Uncut Gems (2019)
• Monos (2019)
• Blackkklansman (2018)
• Lady Bird (2017)
• The Founder (2016)
• The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Her (2013)
• Under the Skin (2013)
• Nightcrawler (2014)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
• Burn after Reading (2008)
• Up (2009)
• Wall-E (2008)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)

I usually read the daily poem from the Poetry Foundation. Here are some of my favorites.

• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
• So many books, so little time by Haki R. Madhubuti