End of year lists— if Obama does it, it must be a good idea. Not all of these came out in 2022, but they’re things that made 2022 a lot more interesting (and fun).
books
- And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie, reread)
- An Ember in the Ashes Trilogy (Sabaa Tahir)
- Angela Davis: An Autobiography
- The Decagon House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji)
- Malibu Rising (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
- Night Film (Marisha Pessl)
- Novelist as a Vocation (Haruki Murakami)
- Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
- Wabi Sabi for Artists (Leonard Koren)
- The Word is Murder (Anthony Horowitz)
movies & tv
- Bodies Bodies Bodies
- Bullet Train
- Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
- Karate Kid (1984)
- Scream (I-V)
- Thor: Ragnarok
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S1 – S10)
- Stranger Things, vol. IV
- Succession (S1)
- The White Lotus (both seasons)
music
- “Daylight” – Harry Styles
- “Don’t Hurt Yourself” – Beyoncé feat. Jack White
- “Family Ties” – Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar
- “Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham” – Kris Bowers (Bridgerton Cover)
- “Malibu” – The Driver Era
- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill & Accompanying Dissect season
- “Parking Lot View” – Almost Monday
- “Pasoori” – Ali Sethi & Shae Gill
- “Raindrops (Insane)” – Metro Boomin feat. Travis Scott
- “Titi Me Preguntó” – Bad Bunny
- “We Cry Together” – Kendrick Lamar & Taylour Paige
- “Wolf” – the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Yeh I Fuckin’ Did It” – Labrinth
