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Brain Food

Stories that ask more of you, and give more back.

Stories that ask for your full attention, with layered plots, big ideas and structures that only make sense on reflection. The most demanding come first.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Film
2. Dark (2017) TV series
3. Disco Elysium (2019) Game
4. The Name of the Rose (1980) Book
5. The Three-Body Problem (2008) Book
6. Blood Meridian (1985) Book
7. The Dispossessed (1974) Book
8. Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) Game
9. Solaris (1961) Book
10. Stalker (1979) Film
11. The Talos Principle (2014) Game
12. The Witness (2016) Game
13. Persona (1966) Film
14. Primer (2004) Film
15. To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) Album
16. Beloved (1987) Book
17. Crime and Punishment (1866) Book
18. Midnight's Children (1981) Book
19. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) TV series
20. The Trial (1925) Book
21. Watchmen (1987) Book
22. The Wire (2002) TV series
23. Braid (2008) Game
24. The Discovery of India (1946) Book
25. The Seventh Seal (1957) Film
26. Solaris (1972) Film
27. Story of Your Life (1998) Book
28. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) Book
29. A Brief History of Time (1988) Book
30. Dune (1965) Book
31. Oppenheimer (2023) Film
32. Arrival (2016) Film
33. Ex Machina (2014) Film
34. The God of Small Things (1997) Book
35. Kafka on the Shore (2002) Book
36. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) Book
37. Memento (2000) Film
38. Neuromancer (1984) Book
39. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Book
40. Sid Meier's Civilization VI (2016) Game
41. Slay the Spire (2019) Game
42. Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) Book
43. Burning (2018) Film
44. Orlando (1928) Book
45. Outer Wilds (2019) Game
46. SOMA (2015) Game
47. The Zone of Interest (2023) Film
48. The Act of Killing (2012) Film
49. Kentucky Route Zero (2020) Game

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