New things in 2025

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

THE BOOKS & STORIES (* = love)

1. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein
2. Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson *
3. Heavier Than Air: Stories by Nona Caspers *
4. Ungendering Menstruation by Ela Przybylo
5. The October Palace by Jane Hirshfield *
6. Kink: Stories ed. R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell
7. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin *
8. Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders
9. 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
10. Breathless by Kitty Tsui
11. Whatsaid Serif by Nathaniel Mackey *
12. School of Uhdra by Nathaniel Mackey 
13. Eroding Witness by Nathaniel Mackey
14. Paracritical Hinge by Nathaniel Mackey
15. Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey
16. Nod House by Nathaniel Mackey
17. Blue Fasa by Nathaniel Mackey
18. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson *
19. The Morning News is Exciting by Don Mee Choi
20. DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
21. Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi
22. Hardly War by Don Mee Choi
23. Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon
24. Exhibit by R.O. Kwon
25. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
26. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz *
27. Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf
28. Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin ***
29. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney *
30. So Many Stars by Caro de Robertis
31. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
32. Fiebre Tropical by Julian Delgado Lopera
33. Pretend It’s My Body by Luke Dani Blue
34. Fruiting Bodies by Nisi Shawl
35. Talk Like a Man by Nisi Shawl
36. Four Souls by Louise Erdrich

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

1. ER
2. The Bear Season 4
3. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth *
4. The Pitt
5. DanDaDan *
6. Law & Order
7. IT: Welcome to Derry

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

1. A Complete Unknown
2. Nosferatu
3. Dont Look Back *
4. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
5. Drive My Car *
6. Elysium
7. Howards End *
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. No Other Land *
10. Anora
11. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
12. Key Largo
13. Erin Brockovich
14. Small Things Like These
15. Sinners
16. Strangers On a Train *
17. In the Name of the Father
18. Lee
19. True Grit 
20. When We Were Kings *
21. The Last Emperor
22. KPop Demon Hunters
23. The Running Man
24. In the Mood for Love 2001
25. Superman
26. Perfect Days
27. Hamnet
28. Confidante
29. After the Hunt
30. The Choral
31. A Private Life
32. Summer Beats
33. The Mastermind
34. Wake Up Dead Man
35. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
36. John Candy: I Like Me
37. Rental Family
38. The Luminous Life
39. 100 METERS
40. The Fog
41. Hard Boiled
42. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
43. The Night of the Hunter
44. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
45. The Running Man (2025)
46. Zodiac Killer Project 

THE GAMES

1. Persona 4 Golden
2. Metaphor: ReFantazio
3. Deltarune Chapters 3–5
4. Hades II

THE ALBUMS (first listens only)

1. I Don't Know How But They Found Me! - Jensen McRae *
2. The Yips - Petey USA *
3. Moon Colony Bloodbath - The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice
4. I quit - HAIM *
5. Flyte - Flyte
6. Dog Eared - Billie Marten
7. Expert in a Dying Field - The Beths *
8. NeverAlways - The Band CAMINO
9. The Life of a Showgirl - Taylor Swift
10. Lonely Magic - Rebecca Sugar
11. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
12. Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan - The Mountain Goats
13. SABLE, fABLE - Bon Iver
14. Erotica Veronica - Miya Folick
15. Leaders of the Free World - Elbow