New things in 2024

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A comprehensive list of everything I've watched, read, played, and listened to this year (for the first time). Pa'lante!

THE BOOKS & STORIES

1. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
2. Ulfhildr by Mary Thaler
3. A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes
4. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
5. The House on Marshland by Louise Glück
6. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
7. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
8. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
9. ”The Angel’s Share” by Marty Cahill
10. "The Clown Watches the Clown" by Sara S. Messenger
11. "Another Girl Under the Iron Bell" by Angela Liu
12. "¡Sangronas! Una Lista de Terror" by M. M. Olivas
13. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
14. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
15. Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston
16. Decolonising the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
17. "White Angel" by Michael Cunningham
18. "Split Tongue" by Niv Sekar
19. Home by the Rotting Sea by Otava Heikkilä
20. "We Who Will Not Die" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
21. "Bozpo Witch-bane" by Simo Srinivas
22. "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
23. "The Art of Quilting" by Matthias Klein
24. "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler
25. "Emergency Skin" by N.K. Jemisin
26. Eating Out Anne Sexton by Elena Sichrovsky
27. "I Love Him Artichoke" by Anna-Claire McGrath
28. Only Animals by Chelsea Sutton
29. "After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland" by Max Franciscovich
30. Sun Stone by Octavio Paz
31. A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson
32. Normal People by Sally Rooney
33. "Stranger Station" by Damon Knight
34. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
35. "The Drowned Giant" by J.G. Ballard
36. "Flower Children" by Maxine Swann
37. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
38. Really, Shockingly Bad Things by Sam Asher

THE SHOWS (first watches only)

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2. The Bear Season 3
3. Lost
4. Planetes
5. This is the Zodiac Speaking
6. The Newsroom

THE MOVIES (first watches only) (* = love)

1. The Iron Claw
2. A Real Pain
3. Union
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Escape from New York
6. The Mummy
7. Newsies
8. Dune (1984)
9. Dune: Part Two
10. Heat
11. Labyrinth
12. Challengers *
13. The Bad and the Beautiful *
14. Double Indemnity
15. Mad Max: Fury Road
16. The Taste of Things *
17. Moulin Rouge!
18. Twisters *
19. The Birdcage
20. Nashville *
21. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman *
22. Conclave
23. Bring Them Home
24. Vlny *
25. We Live in Time
26. Saturday Night
27. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
28. The Room Next Door
29. The Piano Lesson
30. Queer
31. Dahomey
32. All We Imagine as Light *
33. Caddo Lake
34. Windcatcher
35. The Petrified Forest
36. X-Men: Days of Future Past
37. Wicked
38. Die Hard
39. The Sugarland Express *

THE GAMES

1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
2. Final Fantasy IX
3. Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail
4. Final Fantasy XVI

THE ALBUMS (first listens only)

1. The Execution of All Things - Rilo Kiley
2. Take Offs and Landings - Rilo Kiley
3. A Stranger Desired - Bleachers
4. brat - Charli XCX
5. Proper - Into It. Over It.
6. Don't Forget Me - Maggie Rogers
7. The Tortured Poets' Department - Taylor Swift
8. Charm - Clairo
9. Submarine - The Marías
10. Born in the Wild - Tems
11. Twisters: The Album
12. Challengers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
13. Dilate - Ani DiFranco
14. Welcome to the Plains - Wyatt Flores
15. What A Relief - Katie Gavin
16. Bleachers - Bleachers
17. Patterns in Repeat - Laura Marling