Media

Movies I've watched and books I've read, organized by year. Kept up-to-date as often as I can remember to.

2025

Movies

Title Director
Eddington Ari Aster
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Blood Simple Joel Coen
One Battle After Another Nick Cassavetes
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Fall Guy David Leitch
Rudy David Anspaugh
Longlegs Osgood Perkins
Whiplash Damien Chazelle
Mickey 17 Bong Joon-ho
Joe Dirt Dennie Gordon
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
Palm Springs Max Barbakow
Friendship Andrew DeYoung
Anora Sean Baker
I Saw the TV Glow Jane Schoenbrun
A Real Pain Jesse Eisenberg

2024

Movies

Title Director
Asteroid City Wes Anderson
Past Lives Celine Song
Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Dune 2 Denis Villeneuve

Books

Title Author
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
Babel R.F. Huang
Hyperion David Simmons
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
The Fall of Hyperion David Simmons
Red Team Blues Cory Doctorow
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro

2023

Movies

Title Director
A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick
French Dispatch Wes Anderson
C'mon C'mon! Michael Mills
The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson
The Florida Project Sean Baker
The Life Aquatic with Steven Zissou Wes Anderson
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
We Need to Talk About Cosby W Kamau Bell
Call Jane Phyllis Nagy
Babysitter Monia Chokri
Freedom Swimmer Olivia Martin-Mcguire
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground Henna Taylor
Can't Beat This Place For Fun Dawn Kish
Learning to Drown Ben Knight
The Batman Matt Reeves
3 Idiots Rajkumar Hirani
Another Round Thomas Vinterberg

Books

Title Author
Play It As It Lays Joan Didion
Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins
Tenth of December: Stories George Saunders
Scout Mindset Julia Galef
The White Album Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
This is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz
Wait for Signs Craig Johnson
Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
Circe Madeline Miller
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa
Too Like the Lightning Ada Palmer

2021

Books

Title Author
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami
In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado
Death's End Cixin Liu
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin
The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel
Exhalation Ted Chiang
The Obelisk Gate N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky N.K. Jemisin
Haskell Programming from First Principles Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki
Vesper Flights Helen MacDonald
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Ninth House Leigh Bardugo
Salat Dujie Tahat
Amazon Unbound Brad Stone
Abolish Silicon Valley Wendy Liu
Version Zero David Yoon
Zero to One Peter Thiel
Zero In Dean Koontz
Minor Problems Cathy Park Hong
Here I Am O My God Dujie Tahat
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Iain Reid
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
Homeland Corey Doctorow
Attack Surface Corey Doctorow
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process John McPhee
Capitalism without Capital Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
The Manager's Path Camille Fournier
The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
Working in Public Nadia Eghbal
Fossil Capital Andreas Malm
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Slade House David Mitchell
Averno Louise Gluck

2020

Books

Title Author
Men without Women Haruki Murakami
Small Great Things Jodi Picoult
Educated Tara Westover
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
Sapiens Noah Yuval Harari
Neuromancer William Gibson
Little Brother (re-read) Cory Doctorow
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest Cixin Liu
Burning Chrome William Gibson
Count Zero William Gibson
Release It! Michael T. Nygard
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays David Foster Wallace
On Writing Steven King
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Seinfeldia Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Dear Girls Ali Wong
Can't Even Anne Helen Petersen
Terranauts T.C. Boyle
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro
Liar's Poker Michael Lewis
The New Wilderness Diane Cook
The Attention Merchants Tim Wu
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix
Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin
Hot Water Music Charles Bukowski
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
Four in the Morning Sy Safransky
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction Neil Gaiman

2019

Books

Title Author
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee
High Output Management Andrew S. Grove
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann
Border Songs Jim Lynch
The Shortest Way Home Pete Buttigieg
You Shall Know our Velocity! Dave Eggers
Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
REAMDE Neal Stephenson
Redemption Road John Hart
AI Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee
The Overstory Richard Powers
Pump Six and Other Stories Paolo Bacigalupi
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens
Deep Work Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism Cal Newport
The Harder They Come TC Boyle
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
The Great Alone Kristin Hannah
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
The Gift of Struggle Bob Herrera
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite