This was in some ways a very good year; I saw more movies and read many more books than last year! It also seems to be the year I’ve more or less given up the ghost on tracking any serialized comics in Goodreads (which is how I keep up with what I’ve read each year), as well as tracking zines and such. I’ve also read a lot less serials now that I’m writing far fewer articles about them, which is certainly part of it. A few got added into the list, but the attempt to do so slacked off tremendously the further into 2016 I went.

Anyway, a nice tally of films and books, if nothing else, and I’m hoping to continue that progress into 2017.

Movies:

1. Carol
2. Brooklyn
3. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2016: Live Action
4. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2016: Animated
5. Hail, Caesar!
6. Max Max: Fury Road
7. Zootopia
8. Marguerite
9. Hello, My Name is Doris
10. Midnight Special
11. Captain America: Civil War
12. Love & Friendship
13. The Lobster
14. The Lovers and the Despot
15. Obit
16. AFI Docs Shorts Program: No Borders
17. Under the Sun
18. Looking: The Movie
19. Finding Dory
20. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
21. Star Trek Beyond
22. Kubo and the Two Strings
23. Hell or High Water
24. Captain Fantastic
25. Steel Magnolias
26. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
27. Moonlight
28. The Handmaiden [아가씨 Agassi]
29. Being 17 [Quand on a 17 ans]
30. Manchester by the Sea
31. Mother [Ema]
32. Frantz
33. Arrival

Plays/Performances:

1. Bianca del Rio’s Not Today, Satan
2. Carousel

Books:

1. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
2. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
3. The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
4. When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
5. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
6. Tropic of Sunshine by Patrick Youngblood
7. Drag Teen by Jeffrey Self
8. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
9. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
10. In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
11. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
12. The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
13. The Black Archive: Ghost Light by Jonathan Dennis
14. What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew
15. The Mystical Beast by Alison Farthing
16. Naming The Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
17. Look Away by George Alec Effinger
18. Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg
19. Superman: The Unauthorized Biography by Glen Weldon
20. Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
21. All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay D.C. by Craig Seymour
22. Arabian Wine by Gregory Feeley
23. This Census-Taker by China Mieville
24. Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
25. The Black Archive: Image of the Fendahl by Simon Bucher-Jones
26. Lion Time in Timbuctoo by Robert Silverberg
27. The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
28. Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
29. Three Moments of an Explosion by China Meville
30. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
31. Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
32. More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
33. Stoner by John Williams

Graphic Novels:

1. Killing and Dying: Stories by Adrian Tomine
2. Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker by Ed Piskor
3. Scheherazade: Comics About Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters edited by Megan Kelso
4. Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague by Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli
5. The Best American Comics 2009 edited by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel, and Matt Madden
6. The Best American Comics 2010 edited by Neil Gaiman, Jessica Abel, and Matt Madden
7. Emma Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
8. The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide by Kieron Gillen and assorted artists
9. Doctor Fate Vol. 1: The Blood Price by Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew
10. Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity by Mike Yamada, Victoria Ying, and Jonathan Ying
11. You Don’t Say by Nate Powell
12. Black River by Josh Simmons
13. Our Expanding Universe by Alex Robinson
14. Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 2: Feasts of Fury by Eric Colossal
15. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 10 by Fumi Yoshinaga
16. East of West Vol. 5: All These Secrets by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
17. Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton
18. Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
19. Bitch Planet Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
20. Trash Market by Tadao Tsuge
21. How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman, Fabio Moon, and Gabriel Ba
22. Snow Angel by David Chelsea
23. SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
24. Yotsuba&! Vol. 13 by Kiyohiko Azuma
25. Nemo: River of Ghosts by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
26. Al-Qaeda’s Super Secret Weapon by Mohammad al-Mohamed Muhammad
27. Mae Vol. 1 by Gene Ha
28. Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain and Langdon Foss
29. Elfquest: Wolfrider Vol. 1 by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
30. Elfquest: Wolfrider Vol. 2 by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
31. Elfquest: The Discovery by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
32. Elfquest: Dreamtime by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
33. Elfquest: The Searcher and the Sword by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
34. Elfquest: In All But Blood by Wendy Pini, Richard Pini, and company
35. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
36. Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet
37. What’s Your Sign, Girl? edited by Robert Kirby
38. Emma Vol. 2 by Kaoru Mori
39. To Terra… Vol. 1 by Keiko Takemiya
40. Guardians of the Louvre by Jiro Taniguchi
41. Alphabet edited by Jon Macy and Tara Avery
42. The Omega Men: The End is Here by Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda
43. Hilda and the Stone Forest by Luke Pearson
44. Emma Vol. 3 by Kaoru Mori
45. Angel Catbird Vol. 1 by Margaret Atwood and Johnnie Christmas
46. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
47. The Best American Comics 2014 edited by Scott McCloud and Bill Kartalopoulos
48. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
49. Bread and Wine by Samuel R. Delany and Mia Wolff
50. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 11 by Fumi Yoshinaga

Previous Years’ Tallies:

• 2006 (movies only)
• 2007 (movies only)
• 2008 (movies only)
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015