Annual Lists of My Favorite Art
Movies I Watched in 2025
1. One Battle After Another
2. Sentimental Value
3. Train Dreams
4. Nickel Boys
5. Sinners
Honorable Mention
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Weapons
Left-Handed Girl
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Bugonia
Sing Sing
Conclave
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Books I Read in 2025
1. Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
2. Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
3. The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
4. The Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri
5. Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Honorable Mention
All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
James - Percival Everett
We Had to Remove This Post - Hanna Bervoets
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Parade - Rachel Cusk
Wednesday's Child - Yiyun Li
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
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Albums I Heard in 2025
1. SVE & The Attachment Theory - Sharon Van Etten
2. Cruel Joke - Ken Pomeroy
3. Snocaps - Snocaps
4. Reverie - Amble
5. Precipice - Indigo De Souza
Honorable Mention
moisturizer - Wednesday
Baby - Dijon
Double Infinity - Big Thief
Bleeds - Wednesday
In Solitude, For Company - Slow Leaves
I Quit - HAIM
Massive Shoe - Way Dynamic
George - Jake Minch
Forever is a Feeling - Lucy Dacus
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Movies I Watched in 2024
1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Anora
3. Kneecap
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. Suncoast
Honorable Mention
Snack Shack
Dìdi
The Order
It's What's Inside
A Complete Unknown
The Substance
Rebel Ridge
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Books I Read in 2024
1. Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2. Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar
3. Help Wanted - Adelle Waldman
4. Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
5. The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
Honorable Mention
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
Solidarity - Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Yellowface - R. F. Kuang
The Guest - Emma Cline
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace - Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Nutmeg's Curse - Amitav Ghosh
Lessons For Survival - Emily Raboteau
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Albums I Heard in 2024
1. Revelation - Leif Vollebekk
2. Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee
3. Bright Future - Adrienne Lenker
4. Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend
5. Utopia Now! - Rosie Tucker
Honorable Mention
Older - Lizzy McAlpine
Audio Vertigo - Elbow
Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves
Manning Fireworks - MJ Lenderman
A La Sala - Khruangbin
Don't Forget Me - Maggie Rogers
All Means, No End - Birdtalker
Haunted Mountain - Buck Meek
Weird Faith - Madi Diaz
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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
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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