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- Beowulf — trans. Seamus Heaney W. W. Norton & Company · trans. Seamus Heaney
- Shinto: The Kami Way — Sokyo Ono Tuttle Publishing · 1994
- Água Viva — Clarice Lispector New Directions · 2012 · trans. Stefan Tobler
- Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu Penguin Classics · 1963 · trans. D. C. Lau
- Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Penguin Classics · 2005 · trans. David Constantine
- Alchemy & Mysticism — Alexander Roob (Taschen) TASCHEN · 2014
- The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. Nevill Coghill
- Paradise Lost — John Milton Penguin Classics · 2003
- Medea and Other Plays — Euripides Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. John Davie / Richard Rutherford
- The Bacchae and Other Plays — Euripides Penguin Classics · 2006 · trans. John Davie
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce Penguin Classics · 2003
- The Republic — Plato Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. Desmond Lee
- The Symposium — Plato Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. Christopher Gill
- Phaedrus — Plato Penguin Classics · 2005 · trans. Christopher Rowe
- The Last Days of Socrates — Plato Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. Harold Tarrant / Hugh Tredennick
- The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Classics · 2020 · trans. Andrew George
- The Theban Plays — Sophocles Penguin Classics · 1984 · trans. Robert Fagles
- Lysistrata and Other Plays — Aristophanes Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. Alan H. Sommerstein
- Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman Penguin Classics
- Bhagavad Gita Penguin Classics · 1962 · trans. Juan Mascaró
- Buddhist Scriptures Penguin Classics · 2004
- Oresteia — Aeschylus Penguin Classics · 1984 · trans. Robert Fagles
- Songs of Innocence and Experience — William Blake Oxford Paperbacks
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius Penguin Classics · 2006 · trans. Martin Hammond
- Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick Penguin Books · 2008
- The Homeric Hymns Penguin Classics · 2003 · trans. Jules Cashford
- Three Colours Trilogy: Blue White Red (companion volume) — Krzysztof Kieślowski Faber and Faber · 1998
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead — Tom Stoppard Grove Press · 1994
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books · 1999
- wabi sabi: Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty — Andrew Juniper (Tuttle) Tuttle Publishing · 2003
- In Praise of Shadows — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Leete's Island Books · 1977 · trans. Thomas J. Harper / Edward G. Seidensticker
- Kieślowski on Kieślowski — ed. Danusia Stok Faber and Faber · 1993
- Three Colours Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (screenplays) — Krzysztof Kieślowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz
- Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon Penguin Classics Deluxe · 2006
- Collected Fictions — Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Classics Deluxe) Penguin Classics Deluxe · 1999 · trans. Andrew Hurley
- The Iliad — Homer, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics Deluxe) Penguin Classics Deluxe · 1998 · trans. Robert Fagles
- The Odyssey — Homer, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics Deluxe) Penguin Classics Deluxe · 1997 · trans. Robert Fagles
- The Aeneid — Virgil, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics Deluxe) Penguin Classics Deluxe · 2008 · trans. Robert Fagles
- Dune — Frank Herbert Ace Books · 1990
- The Complete Stories — Clarice Lispector New Directions · 2015 · trans. Katrina Dodson
- Ulysses — James Joyce Vintage International · 1990
- 1Q84 — Haruki Murakami Vintage International · 2013 · trans. Jay Rubin / Philip Gabriel
- Near to the Wild Heart — Clarice Lispector New Directions · 2012 · trans. Alison Entrekin
- The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial · 2006
- Finnegans Wake — James Joyce Penguin Classics · 1999
- The Metamorphoses — Ovid (Everyman's Library) Penguin Classics · 2004 · trans. David Raeburn
- The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri (Everyman's Library) Everyman's Library · 1995 · trans. Allen Mandelbaum
- Japanese Woodblock Prints, 1680–1938 — Andreas Marks (Taschen 40 series) TASCHEN
- The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images — Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (Taschen) TASCHEN · 2010
- The Beastie Boys Book — Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz (Spiegel & Grau) Spiegel & Grau
- The Library of Esoterica: Sacred Sites — Taschen TASCHEN · 2024
- The Library of Esoterica: Astrology — Taschen TASCHEN · 2020
- The Library of Esoterica: Plant Magick — Taschen TASCHEN · 2022
- The Library of Esoterica: Tarot — Taschen TASCHEN · 2020
- The Library of Esoterica: Witchcraft — Taschen TASCHEN
- William Shakespeare: Complete Works — ed. Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen, RSC 2nd ed. (Modern Library) Modern Library · 2022
- The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present — Paul McCartney, ed. Paul Muldoon (Liveright) Liveright / W. W. Norton · 2021
- Art of Atari — Tim Lapetino (Dynamite) Dynamite Entertainment · 2016
- The French Laundry Cookbook — Thomas Keller (Artisan) Artisan · 1999
- The French Laundry, Per Se — Thomas Keller (Artisan) Artisan · 2020
- Expanding Universe: Photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope — Taschen TASCHEN
- The Changing Light at Sandover — James Merrill Knopf · 1992
- The Beatles Anthology — The Beatles Chronicle Books · 2000
- VALIS — Philip K. Dick Mariner Books · 2011
- Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov Vintage International · 1989
- Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes — Tony Kushner Theatre Communications Group · 2013
- The Book of the SubGenius — Rev. Ivan Stang / SubGenius Foundation Simon & Schuster (Fireside) · 1987
- Revelation X: The "Bob" Apocryphon — ed. Ivan Stang / SubGenius Foundation Simon & Schuster (Fireside) · 1994
- Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov Vintage International · 1989
- Mage: The Ascension — White Wolf Publishing White Wolf Publishing · 1997
- Blood Treachery — Scott Cohen & Steven DiPesa (White Wolf) White Wolf Games Studio · 2000
- The Spirit Ways: A Guide to Shamans and Spirituality in Mage: The Ascension — Eric P. Taylor, Rachel Barth, Scott Cohen & John Snead (White Wolf) White Wolf Games Studio · 1999
- Prometheus Rising — Robert Anton Wilson Hilaritas Press · 2016
- Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups — Robert Anton Wilson HarperCollins · 2009
- Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld — Patrick Harpur Pine Winds Press · 2003
- Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang Vintage Books · 2016
- The Glass Bead Game — Hermann Hesse Picador USA · 2002
- Tord Boontje — Martina Margetts (ed.) Rizzoli · 2007
- Collected Poems — James Merrill Knopf · 2001
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley Harper & Brothers · 1932
- Neuromancer — William Gibson Ace Books · 2000
- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell — Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial · 2009
- Food of the Gods — Terence McKenna Bantam · 1993
- The Planetary Omnibus — Warren Ellis (art by John Cassaday) DC Comics (WildStorm) · 2014
- The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge — Jeremy Narby Tarcher · 1999
- Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art — Lewis Hyde Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2010
- The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy — Three Initiates TarcherPerigee · 2018
- Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain Harper Perennial · 2007
- The Invention of the Zero — Richard Kenney Knopf · 1995
- The 39 Steps — adapted by Patrick Barlow, from John Buchan and Hitchcock Samuel French · 2009
- The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling — David Shoemaker Avery · 2013
- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail — Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln Delta Trade Paperbacks · 2004
- Wiseguy — Nicholas Pileggi Simon & Schuster · 2019
- Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty — Andrew Bolton Metropolitan Museum of Art · 2011
- The Godfather — Mario Puzo Penguin
- The Shining — Stephen King Anchor Books · 2013
- It’s Not About the Money — Brent Kessel HarperOne · 2008
- Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera — Anne Carson Vintage · 2006
- Snake ’n’ Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret — Michael Kupperman HarperCollins · 2000
- Nobilis, Livre de Base — Jenna Katerin Moran (French edition) Black Book Éditions
Films
- The Princess Bride — dir. Rob Reiner (Criterion)
- Dekalog — Krzysztof Kieślowski · Criterion 637
- Do the Right Thing — Spike Lee · Criterion 97
- Seven Samurai — Akira Kurosawa · Criterion 2
- Dazed and Confused — Richard Linklater · Criterion 336
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick · Criterion 942
- A Hard Day's Night — dir. Richard Lester · Criterion 1104
- Citizen Kane — Orson Welles
- The Silence of the Lambs — Jonathan Demme · Criterion 13
- Dr. Strangelove — Stanley Kubrick · Criterion 821
- Blow-Up — Michelangelo Antonioni · Criterion 845
- Repo Man — Alex Cox · Criterion 534
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch — John Cameron Mitchell · Criterion 593
- Throne of Blood — Akira Kurosawa
- Malcolm X — Spike Lee · Criterion 740
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen · Criterion 794
- Dreams — Akira Kurosawa · Criterion 842
- The 39 Steps — Alfred Hitchcock · Criterion 56
- La Jetée / Sans Soleil — Chris Marker · Criterion 387
- Blood Simple — Joel & Ethan Coen (Criterion)
- All That Jazz — Bob Fosse (Criterion)
- No Country for Old Men — Joel & Ethan Coen (Criterion)
- Double Indemnity — Billy Wilder (Criterion)
- Tokyo Story — Yasujiro Ozu (Criterion)
- 8½ — Federico Fellini (Criterion)
- Solaris — Andrei Tarkovsky (Criterion)
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai — Jim Jarmusch (Criterion)
- F for Fake — Orson Welles (Criterion)
- Miller's Crossing — Joel & Ethan Coen (Criterion)
- The Right Stuff — Philip Kaufman (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
- Barton Fink — Joel & Ethan Coen
- The Maya Deren Collection
- North by Northwest — Alfred Hitchcock (4K UHD)
- Vertigo — Alfred Hitchcock (4K UHD)
- GoodFellas — Martin Scorsese (4K UHD)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey — Stanley Kubrick, 50th Anniversary Edition (4K UHD)
- Fargo — Joel & Ethan Coen, 2-disc set (4K UHD)
- The Big Lebowski — Joel & Ethan Coen (4K UHD)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Steven Spielberg (4K UHD)
- Chinatown — Roman Polanski (4K UHD)
- Reservoir Dogs — Quentin Tarantino (4K UHD)
- Pulp Fiction — Quentin Tarantino (4K UHD)
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 — Quentin Tarantino (4K UHD)
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 — Quentin Tarantino (4K UHD)
Divination decks
- The Wild Unknown Tarot — Kim Krans HarperElixir · 2016
- The Wild Unknown Alchemy — Kim Krans Chronicle Books · 2022
Music
- A Hard Day's Night — The Beatles the title track, official music video
- Beatles for Sale — The Beatles "Eight Days a Week," official music video
- Help! — The Beatles "Help!," official remastered video
- Rubber Soul — The Beatles "Nowhere Man," restored stereo film clip
- Revolver — The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby," official music video
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles "A Day in the Life," official music video
- Magical Mystery Tour — The Beatles "I Am the Walrus," official music video
- The Beatles (White Album) — The Beatles "Back in the U.S.S.R.," 2018 mix video
- Yellow Submarine — The Beatles "Yellow Submarine," official music video
- Abbey Road — The Beatles "Here Comes the Sun," official music video
- Let It Be — The Beatles "Let It Be," official music video
- Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin "Communication Breakdown," live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1970
- Led Zeppelin II — Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love," official music video
- Led Zeppelin III — Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song," live 1972, official video
- Led Zeppelin IV — Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven," live at Earl's Court, 1975
- Houses of the Holy — Led Zeppelin "The Song Remains the Same," live at Madison Square Garden, 1973
- Physical Graffiti — Led Zeppelin "Kashmir," live at Knebworth, 1979
- Presence — Led Zeppelin "Achilles Last Stand," remastered official audio
- In Through the Out Door — Led Zeppelin "In the Evening," 1990 remaster
- Coda — Led Zeppelin "Bonzo's Montreux," remastered
- The Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd "Money," official music video
- Who's Next — The Who "Baba O'Riley," 1971 official video
- Disraeli Gears — Cream "Sunshine of Your Love," official video (HD)
- Being There — Wilco "Outtasite (Outta Mind)," official video — the band skydiving mid-song
- Summerteeth — Wilco "Can't Stand It"
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Wilco "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"
- A Ghost Is Born — Wilco "Spiders (Kidsmoke)"
- Murmur — R.E.M. "Radio Free Europe," the band's original 1983 video
- Document — R.E.M. "The One I Love," official music video
- Automatic for the People — R.E.M. "Everybody Hurts," official HD music video
- New Adventures in Hi-Fi — R.E.M. "E-Bow the Letter," official video, featuring Patti Smith
- Come On Pilgrim — Pixies "Caribou," live performance
- Surfer Rosa — Pixies "Gigantic," live at VPRO Studios, 1988
- Doolittle — Pixies "Here Comes Your Man," official music video
- Bossanova — Pixies "Velouria," official music video
- Trompe le Monde — Pixies "Alec Eiffel," official music video
- Example — For Squirrels "Mighty K.C.," official music video
- Music for 18 Musicians — Steve Reich full performance by eighth blackbird
- Harmonielehre — John Adams "Short Ride in a Fast Machine," official score video
- Nixon in China — John Adams "News Has a Kind of Mystery," live at the Met, 2011
- Shaker Loops — John Adams live performance, ChamberFest Cleveland, 2019
- El Niño — John Adams live performance, Paris 2000, Kent Nagano conducting
- Violin Concerto — John Adams Gidon Kremer with the London Symphony Orchestra
- Naive and Sentimental Music — John Adams LA Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting
- The Dharma at Big Sur — John Adams Tracy Silverman, electric violin, live 2014
- Selected Ambient Works 85-92 — Aphex Twin "Xtal," opening track
- Selected Ambient Works Volume II — Aphex Twin "Blue Calx"
- Richard D. James Album — Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"
- Drukqs — Aphex Twin "Avril 14th," the well-known Disklavier piano piece
- dubnobasswithmyheadman — Underworld "Dark & Long," opening track
- Second Toughest in the Infants — Underworld "Pearl's Girl"
- Beaucoup Fish — Underworld "King of Snake," official music video
- Everything, Everything — Underworld "Two Months Off," music video
- Madvillainy — Madvillain "All Caps," official animated video
- Licensed to Ill — Beastie Boys "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)," official video
- Paul's Boutique — Beastie Boys "Hey Ladies," music video
- Check Your Head — Beastie Boys "So What'cha Want," music video
- Ill Communication — Beastie Boys "Sabotage," official video, directed by Spike Jonze
- Bleach — Nirvana "About a Girl"
- Nevermind — Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit," official music video
- In Utero — Nirvana "Heart-Shaped Box," directed by Anton Corbijn
- Incesticide — Nirvana "Sliver," official music video
- MTV Unplugged in New York — Nirvana "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," live on MTV Unplugged, 1993
- Superunknown — Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun," official music video
- Meat Puppets II — Meat Puppets "Plateau," live at WFUV
- Gish — Smashing Pumpkins "I Am One," official music video
- Loveless — My Bloody Valentine "Only Shallow," official music video
- Nowhere — Ride "Vapour Trail," music video
- The Stone Roses — The Stone Roses "She Bangs the Drums," official video
- Kind of Blue — Miles Davis "So What," live in 1959 with John Coltrane
- In a Silent Way — Miles Davis live performance, Paris 1991
- A Love Supreme — John Coltrane the only complete live performance of the suite, Antibes, 1965
- Mingus Ah Um — Charles Mingus "Better Git It in Your Soul"
- Head Hunters — Herbie Hancock "Chameleon," live on The Midnight Special, 1975
- The Inner Mounting Flame — Mahavishnu Orchestra full album, opening with "Meeting of the Spirits"
- Heavy Weather — Weather Report "Birdland"
- TNT — Tortoise the album performed live in full, 21st-anniversary set
- Mezzanine — Massive Attack "Teardrop," official music video
- Maxinquaye — Tricky "Overcome," official music video
- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain — Pavement "Cut Your Hair," official music video
- Leaves Turn Inside You — Unwound "Scarlette," official music video
- Parade — Prince "Kiss," official music video
- Sign O' The Times — Prince the title track, official music video
- Blackstar — David Bowie the title track, official music video
- Crack the Skye — Mastodon "Oblivion," official music video
- Synchronicity — The Police "Every Breath You Take," official music video
- Ghost in the Machine — The Police "Spirits in the Material World," official music video
- Red — King Crimson "Starless"
- Duke — Genesis "Turn It On Again," official music video
- Skylarking — XTC "Dear God," official music video
- Oranges and Lemons — XTC "The Mayor of Simpleton," official music video
- Apple Venus Volume 1 — XTC "I'd Like That"
- Parklife — Blur the title track, official music video
- Blur — Blur "Song 2," official music video
- 13 — Blur "Coffee & TV," official music video
- Homogenic — Björk "Jóga," official music video, directed by Michel Gondry
- Odelay — Beck "Where It's At," official music video
- Midnite Vultures — Beck "Mixed Bizness," official music video
- Music for Airports — Brian Eno "1/1," opening movement
- Another Green World — Brian Eno "St. Elmo's Fire," featuring Robert Fripp
- If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I — BT "13 Angels on My Broken Windowsill," official video
- Future Days — Can "Moonshake"
- Gran Turismo — The Cardigans "My Favourite Game," official music video
- Up in Flames — Caribou "Hendrix with Ko" (as Manitoba)
- Chrome — Catherine Wheel "Crank," official music video
- Ferment — Catherine Wheel "Black Metallic," official music video
- Shri Durga — Cheb i Sabbah the title track
- Blue Bell Knoll — Cocteau Twins "Carolyn's Fingers," official music video
- Halcyon Digest — Deerhunter "Helicopter," official music video
- Turn On the Bright Lights — Interpol "Obstacle 1," directed by Floria Sigismondi
- Endtroducing..... — DJ Shadow "Midnight in a Perfect World," official music video
- The K&D Sessions — Kruder & Dorfmeister "High Noon," official music video
- Gala — Lush "Sweetness and Light," official music video
- Keep It Like a Secret — Built to Spill "Carry the Zero," the band's best-known song