This page is a work in progress, cataloguing the various books, films, websites, and other such oddities that I love and would whole-heartedly recommend. In the cases when I have written a blog post dedicated to one of these works, I’ve also included a link to make it easy to read further.
This resource is not an archive of discussions – that would be better found under, well, the Archive. Rather, it’s a showcase of things that I do truly love and think are entirely worthwhile, whether or not they are perfect.
Books
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
On Fairy Stories, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Probably just about anything by J.R.R. Tolkien
Film and TV
Andor
Arrested Development
Community
Hail Caesar
Hot Fuzz
The Into/Across/Beyond the Spider-Verse trilogy (Lord I hope Beyond sticks the landing)
Knives Out
Licence to Kill
The Rise/Dawn/War of the Planet of the Apes trilogy
Taskmaster
Tenet
The Prestige
Yes Minister
Around the Web
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry