These are all things that I enjoyed this year! If you have not enjoyed them yet, I hope you do!

Addendum: if you want the full-full rundown on the year in film, do check out the 2023 “EMOs” on my other blog: https://bestfilmsofourlives.blog/2024/03/10/the-2023-emos/

Fiction

• Bad Cree, Jessica Johns
• Best of Friends, Kamila Shamsie
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tocarczuk
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Kevin Wilson
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

Non-Fiction

• The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, Laine Nooney
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
• The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, Kevin Driscoll
• Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Moscow, Natasha Lance Rogoff
• Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory, Sarah Polley

Movies

• Asteroid City
• Barbie
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• The Killer
• Showing Up

TV Series

• I Think You Should Leave, season 3
• Poker Face, season 1
• Reservation Dogs, season 3
• The Righteous Gemstones, season 3
• Slow Horses, season 3
• Taskmaster, seasons 1-5 (thus far)

Limited Series

• The Fall of the House of Usher
• A Spy Among Friends

Podcasts

• Bonanas for Bonanza
• If Books Could Kill
• The Neighborhood Listen, season 5
• This Had Oscar Buzz

Games

• Movie Grid
• Wandersong
• do you really need me to link you to Tears of the Kingdom?