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Books
Now, there may be glaring omissions, it is likely that I go the movie direction.  I don't have enough time in my life to read the great book that goes with every great movie.  If it exists in both formats, and is done any justice in movie form, I do not read the book. 
Stephen King
Daniel C. Dennett
Dark Tower series
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Freedom Evolves
Kurt Vonneget, Jr.
James Morrow
Damn near anything, but especially:
Towing Jehovah (trilogy)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Breakfast of Champions
Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Paul Strathern
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
The Anti-Christ
He does spiffy little books where he grabs a philosopher, and crunches them down to a bite size lecture.  You get to learn strange things, such as Marx asking Engels for money because of a genital boil, and Marx himself earned 10 times more than the average folk of his day.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Choke