Here's my favourite things I read/watched etc this year for the first time (I know a lot of them were created in previous years - so don't even @ me Bro!)
Books
Lincoln In The Bardo - George Saunders (Tenth of December also had some great moments - especially the final story)
Les Miserable - Victor Hugo (almost unabridged translation by Norman Denny)
The Power - Naomi Alderman
In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead - James Lee Burke
A Behanding In Spokane - Martin McDonough
TV
The Good Place (season 2 and 3)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective's Agency (season 2)
Fargo (season 3)
Films
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
and then in no particular order
Wheelman (Netflix)
Moonlight
Milk
Avengers: Infinity War (have watched this 4 times so far!)
Ant-man and The Wasp
Loveless (bleak and beautifully shot)
The Shape of Water
Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot (Amazon Prime)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Spiderman: Into The Spider-verse
Documentary
Quincy (Netflix)
Comedy Special
Elder Millennial - Iliza Shlesinger (Netflix)
Nanette (Netflix) - Hannah Gadsby. Not really a comedy special but something powerful and hard to define.
Albums
The Nashville Sound - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Xoa - Anais Mitchell. Two incredible songwriters.
Really Old Albums
The Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom
Clouds - Joni Mitchell
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