Books I Read in 2023

1. The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty

2. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

3. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

4. Dinosaurs - Lydia Millet

5. The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

Honorable Mention

All's Well - Mona Awad

Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

An Island - Karen Jennings

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

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Albums I Heard in 2021

1. Home Video - Lucy Dacus

2. Collapsed in Sunbeams - Arlo Parks

3. Million Masks of God - Manchester Orchestra

4. Absolutely - Dijon

5. Valentine - Snail Mail

Honorable Mention

How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? - Big Red Machine

Pressure Machine - The Killers

Prospect - AHI

SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo

Cry Forever - Amy Shark

Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night - Bleachers

if i could make it go quiet - girl in red

Bo Jackson - Boldy James & The Alchemist

Gold-Diggers Sound - Leon Bridges

Sling - Clairo

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Movies I Watched in 2023

1. Women Talking

2. Poor Things

3. Past Lives

4. Causeway

5. American Fiction

Honorable Mention

Cha Cha Real Smooth

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

The Holdovers

All Quiet on the Western Front

Reptile

Rye Lane

Killers of the Flower Moon

May December

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Movies I Watched in 2019

1. If Beale Street Could Talk

2. Blockers

3. The Sisters Brothers

4. Knives Out

5. Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Honorable Mention

Booksmart

Eighth Grade

You Were Never Really Here

Thunder Road

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Logan Lucky

Native Son

Mid90s

Marriage Story

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Movies I Watched in 2020

1. Palm Springs

2. 1917

3. Just Mercy

4. I Used To Go Here

5. Yes, God, Yes

Honorable Mention

Enola Holmes

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Happiest Season

The Lovebirds

The Way Back

Soul

The Devil All the Time

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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Movies I Watched in 2021

1. Bo Burnham: Inside

2. How It Ends

3. Judas and the Black Messiah

4. Belfast

5. The Alpinist

Honorable Mention

Two Distant Strangers (Short)

Nomadland

Tick, Tick ... Boom!

Don't Look Up

The Green Knight

Moxie

No Sudden Move

Mogul Mowgli

Long Weekend

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Movies I Watched in 2022

1. The Worst Person in the World

2. Licorice Pizza

3. The Banshees of Inisherin

4. Everything Everywhere All At Once

5. The Stranger

Honorable Mention

Emily the Criminal

Rosaline

The Menu

Nope

Don't Worry Darling

Amsterdam

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Books I Read in 2021

1. Barn 8 - Deb Olin Unferth

2. The Removed - Brandon Hobson

3. Bunny - Mona Awad

4. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata

5. No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

Honorable Mention

Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

One Friday in April - Donald Antrim

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

Real Life - Brandon Taylor

The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Luster - Raven Leilani

Beautiful World, Where Are You? - Sally Rooney

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Books I Read in 2022

1. The Overstory - Richard Powers

2. Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. Jean Mandel

3. The Committed - Viet Thanh Nguyen

4. A Children's Bible - Lydia Millet 

5. Heaven - Mieko Kawakami

Honorable Mention

The Glass Hotel & Station Eleven - Emily St. Jean Mandel (2)

Fight No More - Lydia Millet

Animal - Lisa Taddeo

Trust - Domenico Starnone

Lapvona - Otessa Mosfegh

The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid

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Books I Read in 2019

1. The Idiot - Elif Batuman

2. The Neopolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante (4)

3. Severance - Ling Ma

4. The Nickel Boys - Colton Whitehead

5. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid

Honorable Mention

Range - David Epstein

The Milkman - Anna Burns

Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

Beartown - Fredrik Backman

Us Against Them - Fredrik Backman

Dark Money - Jane Mayer

There There - Tommy Orange

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Books I Read in 2020

1. Weather - Jenny Offill

2. Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

3. Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry

4. The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

5. The New Wilderness - Diane Cook

Honorable Mention

Outline & Transit & Kudos - Rachel Cusk (3)

What is the What - Dave Eggers

The Sympathizer - Viet Thahn Nguyen

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion - Jia Tolentino

Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

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Albums I Heard in 2023

1. Proof of Life - Joy Oladokun

2. GUTS - Olivia Rodrigo

3. The Window - Ratboys

4. If This Is The End - Noah Gundersen

5. Valley of Vision - Manchester Orchestra

Honorable Mention

Honey - Samia

Appaloosa Bones - Gregory Alan Isakov

Like..? - Ice Spice

The Age of Pleasure - Janelle Monae

Let's Start Here. - Lil Yachty

10,000 Gecs - 100 Gecs

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

First Two Pages of Frankenstein - The National

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Albums I Heard in 2019

1. Father of the Bride - Vampire Weekend

2. Jaime - Brittany Howard

3. Better Oblivion Community Center - B.O.C.C.

4. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

5. Sucker Punch - Sigrid

Honorable Mention

Tales of America - J.S. Ondara

Wasteland, Baby! - Hozier

Everythings For Sale - Boogie

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - Billie Eilish

New Breed - Dawn Richard

Without Fear - Dermot Kennedy

The Flood in Color - Joe Pug

The Highwomen - The Highwomen

Super Doppler - Super Doppler

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Albums I Heard in 2020

1. Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee

2. Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers

3. RTJ4 - Run the Jewels

4. Streams of Thought , Vol. 3 - Black Thought

5. Women in Music Pt. III - Haim

Honorable Mention

Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa

Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen

Folklore - Taylor Swift

As God Intended - Apollo Brown & Che Noir

Imploding the Mirage - The Killers

Reunions - Jason Isbell

Marigold - Pinegrove

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Albums I Heard in 2022

1. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You - Big Thief

2. 11:11 - Pinegrove

3. I Walked With You A Ways - Plains

4. Formentera - Metric

5. Adjustments - Noah Reid

Honorable Mention

Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975

Harry's House - Harry Styles

Preacher's Daughter - Ethel Cain

Laurel Hell - Mitski

Crude - David Keenan

Running with the Hurricane - Camp Cope

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