1,001 albums you must hear before you die. chosen by a panel of music critics to be the most important, influential, and best in popular music between the 1950s and the 2010s.

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• ↺ blood sugar sex magick, red hot chili peppers (1991)
• ↺ the doors, the doors (1967)
• ↺ physical graffiti, led zeppelin (1975)
• innervisions, stevie wonder (1973)
• ↺ superunknown, soundgarden (1994)
• 2112, rush (1976)
• ↺ at folsom prison, johnny cash (1968)
• ↺ odelay, beck (1996)
• ↺ young americans, david bowie (1975)
• she's so unusual, cyndi lauper (1983)
• ella fitzgerald sings the george and ira gershwin song book, ella fitzgerald (1959)
• fun house, the stooges (1970)
• oedipus schmoedipus, barry adamson (1996)
• the velvet underground, the velvet underground (1969)

1,001 movies you must see before you die. covers films from 1900s to 2020.

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• ↺ chinatown, roman polanski (1974)
• the grave of the fireflies, isao takahata (1988)
• the lighthouse, robert eggers (2019)
• monos, alejandro landes (2019)
• ↺ back to the future, robert zemeckis (1985)
• vampyr, carl theodor dreyer (1932)
• ↺ the evil dead, sam raimi (1981)
• let the right one in, tomas alfredson (2008)
• under the shadow, babak anvari (2016)
• an american werewolf in london, john landis (1981)
• le samourai, jean-pierre melville (1967)
• fantastic planet, rené laloux (1973)
• irreversible, gaspar noé (2002)
• jaws, steven spielberg (1975)
• 2 or 3 things i know about her, jean-luc goddard (1967)
• ↺ rashomon, akira kurosawa (1950)
• tenet, christopher nolan (2020)
• ikiru, akira kurosawa (1952)

1,001 books you must read before you die. compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and is made up of novels, short stories, and short story collections.

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• one hundred years of solitude, gabriel garcía márquez (1967)
• crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky (1866)
• the count of monte cristo, alexandre dumas (1844)
• ↺ the time machine, h.g. wells (1895)
• ↺ the invisible man, h.g. wells (1897)
• around the world in eighty days, jules verne (1872)
• ↺ animal farm, george orwell (1945)
• gulliver's travels, jonathan swift (1726)
• to the lighthouse, virginia woolf (1927)
• the scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthorne (1850)
• the house of the seven gables, nathaniel hawthorne (1851)
• ↺ a christmas carol, charles dickens (1843)
• choke, chuck palahniuk (2001)
• love medicine, louise erdrich (1984)
• wuthering heights, emily brontë (1847)