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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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The Big Sleep

Chandler's Marlowe stories invented the hard-boiled detective — every noir owes a debt

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The Stranger

Camus's absurdist masterpiece — Meursault's radical indifference as a philosophical statement

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Disco Elysium

The greatest detective RPG — your brain is the crime scene

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NieR: Automata

Yoko Taro's meditation on existence, meaning, and androids who choose to feel

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Boyhood

Linklater filmed a boy growing up over twelve years — the most patient portrait of adolescence in cinema

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Princess Mononoke

Miyazaki's most complex environmental fable — nature and industry locked in tragic war

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Atlanta

Donald Glover's show navigates the Atlanta rap scene with surreal precision

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True Detective

McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak