Here I share non-technical (philosophy, literature, art, cinema etc.) suggestions. I am only sharing the ones that I love the most and I tried to sort them by the order of perceived value (totally subjective).

Non-Fiction Books

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosophy
• Tek Adam by Sevket Sureyya Aydemir - Biography (Modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s life)
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin - Biography (Nolan’s Oppenheimer is also strongly suggested)
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - Biography
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman - Media
• Ways of Seeing by John Berger - Art
• The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm - Philosophy
• Writing with Style by John Trimble - Writing
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - Analysis
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Republic by Plato - Philosophy
• The Epic of Gilgamesh - Epic Sumerian Story
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton - Greek Mythology
• Political Ideologies: An Introduction by Andrew Heywood
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - History
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond - History, Analysis
• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson - History, Analysis
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - Philosophy
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Political Philosophy
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - Analysis
• Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
• The Hungry Spirit by Charles Handy - Reflection
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Coey - Self-Development
• The Culture Map by Erin Meyer - Culture
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini - Psychology
• The Road to Conscious Machines The Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge - Science, History
• Genius Makers by Cade Metz - Science, History (Figures behind deep learning revolution)
• The New Leaders by Daniel Goleman - Leadership
• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault - History, Philosophy
• Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard - Philosophy
• The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
• Cehenneme Ovgu by Gunduz Vassaf - Turkish Opinion Piece
• Her Sey Ayri Yazilir by kucuk iskender - Turkish Opinion Piece
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• Rest by Alex Pang - Self-Development
• Atomic Habits by James Clear - Self-Development

Fiction Books

• When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom - Historical Novel
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Novel
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez - Classic
• Tutunamayanlar by Oguz Atay - Turkish Novel
• Icimizdeki Seytan & Kuyucakli Yusuf & Kurk Mantolu Madonna by Sabahattin Ali - Turkish Novels
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Short Novel
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - Classic
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo - Classic
• 1984 by George Orwell - Novel
• The Animal Farm by George Orwell - Short Novel
• The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk - Turkish Novel
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - Classic
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Classic
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck - Short Novel
• The Trial by Franz Kafka - Classic
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Short Novel
• One Thousand and One Nights - Fairy Tale (the first books that made me love reading)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Novel
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Novel (1962 movie adaptation is also suggested)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus - Classic
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Classic
• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling - Fantasy (books are better than motion pictures)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - Fantasy
• Iliad by Homer - Epic
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan - Fantasy (the first books that made me love reading)
• Samarkand by Amin Maalouf - Novel
• Serenad by Zulfu Livaneli - Turkish Novel (read it with Schubert’s Serenade)
• The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk - Turkish Novel
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Short Novel
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Novel
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Classic
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Classic
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Classic
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Classic
• Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov - Classic (suggested for Stoics especially)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Novel
• Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Stories
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Novel
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig - Novel
• Gece by Bilge Karasu - Turkish Novel
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - Short Story
• White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Short Story
• Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Short Story
• Improbable by Adam Fawer - Fantasy (the first books that made me love reading)
• Think of a Number by John Verdon - Detective Novel
• The Red and The Black by Stendhal - Classic
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Classic
• Germinal by Emile Zola - Classic
• The Plague by Albert Camus - Novel
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Classic
• Iliad by Homer - Myth
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Classic
• The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati - Novel
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Classic
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - Novel
• _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - Novel
• The Last Day of a Condemned by Victor Hugo - Classic
• The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - Mystery Novel
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - Novel
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Novel
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin - Utopia (or Distopia)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - Classic

Cinema

• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Arrival (2016)
• LOTR Trilogy
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Before Trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
• Rear Window (1954)
• The Handmaiden (2016)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• Three Colors: White (1994)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• Oppenheimer (2023)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Parasite (2019)
• In The Mood For Love (2000)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Memories of Murder (2003)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Dark Knight (2018)
• Harry Potter
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
• Rashomon (1950)
• La La Land (2016)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Up (2009)
• Inception (2015)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Titanic (1997)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Interstellar (2014)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Memento (2000)
• Vertigo (1958)
• 1917 (2019)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
• Psycho (1960)
• Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)
• Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
• The Shining (1980)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Upgrade (2018)
• Se7en (1995)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Coco (2017)
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Inside Out (2015, 2024)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Birdman (2014)
• Downfall (2004)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Conclave (2024)
• Anora (2024)
• Juror #2 (2024)
• Companion (2025)

Series

• Friends
• Game of Thrones (First 6 seasons)
• Band of Brothers
• Breaking Bad
• The Boys
• Adolescence (Limited series)
• Chernobyl (Limited series)
• The Queen’s Gambit (Limited series)
• Dark
• The Last of Us
• South Park
• Rick and Morty
• Black Mirror
• Succession
• Peaky Blinders
• Six Feet Under
• Alice in Borderland