These are some of the things I enjoyed in 2023. Almost none of them were actually released in 2023.

Music

  1. Forgive Me Friend - Smith & Thell
  2. Beautiful Losers - Coheed and Cambria
  3. Black Butterflies and Deja Vu - The Maine
  4. I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers
  5. Caution - The Killers
  6. Virginia (Wind In The Night) - The Head And The Heart
  7. Can We Hang On? - Cold War Kids
  8. Statue (The Pills Song) [BUNT. Remix] - Smith & Thell
  9. Alligator - Of Monsters and Men
  10. Heaven/Hell - CHVRCHES

Books

I read 21 books this year, which is roughly 19 more than in any previous year. Thanks Kindle, Libby, and Audible.

Fiction
  1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
  2. The Three-Body Problem Trilogy - Cixin Liu
  3. The Fellowship of the Ring
  4. Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
Nonfiction
  1. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Adam Higginbotham
  2. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living - Alan Noble
  3. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
  4. With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God - Skye Jethani
  5. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle - Jon Meacham
  6. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
  7. Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond

TV

  1. Under The Banner Of Heaven
  2. Servant
  3. Foundation
  4. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  5. Inventing Anna
  6. What We Do In The Shadows
  7. The Dropout
  8. The Patient
  9. Suits
  10. From

Movies

  1. Air
  2. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
  3. 1917
  4. Mad Max: Fury Road
  5. The Irishman
  6. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Video Games

  1. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
  2. Super Mario Bros. Wonder