A running list of the albums, books and movies I’ve consumed this year. Albums and movies include only titles released this year. Books contain all books I’ve completed this year, regardless of when they were released.
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2023
Albums
- “After the Magic” by Parannoul
- “All of This Will End” by Indigo De Souza
- “Ambient 23” by Moby
- “And Southern Star” by Mikaela Davis
- “AUSTIN” by Post Malone
- “BEN” by Macklemore
- “But Here We Are” by Foo Fighters
- “CAPITOLIO” by Maria Isa
- “Cartwheel” by Hotline TNT
- “College Park” by Logic
- “Cracker Island” by Gorillaz
- “Crépuscule I & II” by Tujiko Noriko
- “Cyclamen” by Núria Graham
- “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” by Caroline Polachek
- “Did you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd” by Lana Del Rey
- “EVERY LOSER” by Iggy Pop
- “Everyone’s Crushed” by Water From Your Eyes
- “Fantasy” by M83
- “First Two Pages of Frankenstein” by The National
- “Five Easy Hot Dogs” by Mac Demarco
- “Got Him!” by Ethan Tasch
- “Glossover” by Afternoon Bike Ride
- “Heaven Is a Junkyard” by Youth Lagoon
- “History Books” by The Gaslight Anthem
- “Honey” by Samia
- “HOPE” by NF
- “I Killed Your Dog” by L’Rain
- “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We” by Mitski
- “Let’s Start Here.” by Lil Yachty
- “LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN” by Anti-Flag
- “A Little Disaster” by Pearly Drops
- “Lobes” by We Are Scientists
- “Maps” by Billy Woods and Kenny Segal
- “mole” by poolblood
- “My 21st Century Blues” by RAYE
- “ONE MORE TIME…” by Blink-182
- “Rat Saw God” by Wednesday
- “A Reckoning” by Kimbra
- “the record” by boygenius
- “Thoughts In Cursive” by Mati
- “Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)” by Noah Kahan
- “Strays” by Margo Price
- “This Is Why” by Paramore
- “You Are Who You Hang Out With” by The Front Bottoms
Books
- “Another Brooklyn” by Jacqueline Woodson
- “The Baron in the Trees” by Italo Calvino
- “The Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka
- “Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly: A Memoir” by Dana Tai Soon Burgess
- “Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism” by Amanda Montell
- “Dept. of Speculation” by Jenny Offill
- “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng
- “The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros
- “Golden Son” by Pierce Brown
- “The Guide” by Peter Heller
- “Hiroshima” by John Hersey
- “How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures” by Sabrina Imbler
- “Insomnia” by Sarah Pinborough
- “Jackal” by Erin E. Adams
- “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
- “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer
- “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus
- “The Light Pirate” by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
- “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov
- “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig
- “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
- “Nobody Is Ever Missing” by Catherine Lacey
- “Novelist as a Vocation” by Haruki Murakami
- “The Passenger” by Cormac McCarthy
- “The Rabbit Hutch” by Tess Gunty
- “Red Rising” by Pierce Brown
- “The School for Good Mothers” by Jessamine Chan
- “See You Again in Pyongyang” by Travis Jeppesen
- “The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music” by Dave Grohl
- “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid
- “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin
- “The Two Towers” by J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Want” by Lynn Steger Strong
- “Washington Bullets” by Vijay Prashad
- “When We Fell Apart” by Soon Wiley
- “Where They Wait” by Scott Carson
- “White Noise” by Don DeLillo
- “A Wild Sheep Chase” by Haruki Murakami
- “Wonder Valley” by Ivy Pochoda
Movies
- “65“
- “A Knock at the Cabin“
- “Air“
- “Alice, Darling“
- “American Fiction“
- “Asteroid City“
- “Barbie“
- “Beau Is Afraid“
- “The Blackening“
- “Bottoms“
- “The Boogeyman“
- “Cocaine Bear“
- “The Creator“
- “Dumb Money“
- “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves“
- “Evil Dead Rise“
- “Fast X“
- “Infinity Pool“
- “John Wick: Chapter 4“
- “Killers of the Flower Moon“
- “M3GAN“
- “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One“
- “No Hard Feelings“
- “Nyad“
- “Oppenheimer“
- “Renfield“
- “Skinamarink“
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse“
- “Wild Life“
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