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 |