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Movies and Books: 2019

2019 was an extraordinarily busy year, and this year’s list definitely reflects that.

Movies:

  1. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
  2. Shoplifters
  3. Serenity
  4. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019: Animated
  5. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019: Live Action
  6. Tootsie
  7. Booksmart
  8. Shazam!
  9. The Souvenir
  10. Rocketman
  11. AFI DOCS Shorts Program 1 [Ghosts of Sugar Land, Departing Gesture, Conception: Melissa, Take Me to Prom, St. Louis Superman]
  12. AFI DOCS Shorts Program 2 [In the Absence, A Love Song for Latasha, The Clinic, Life in Miniature, A Tale of Two Kitchens]
  13. AFI DOCS Shorts Program 3 [All Inclusive, Sweetheart Dancers, Lightning vs Thunder, Crannog, Exit 12]
  14. AFI DOCS Shorts Program 5 [Dulce, The Separated, A Very Thin Line, Mack Wrestles, Quilt Fever, The Trial]
  15. Three Identical Strangers
  16. Drag Becomes Her
  17. The Farewell
  18. Downton Abbey
  19. Pain and Glory
  20. Parasite
  21. Jojo Rabbit
  22. The End of the Century
  23. Joker
  24. Knives Out
  25. And Then We Danced
  26. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  27. The Two Popes

Plays/Performances:

  1. The Play That Goes Wrong
  2. Katya: Help Me I’m Dying
  3. Lizzo: Cuz I Love You Too Tour
  4. RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq the World Tour 2019
  5. BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon: All I Want For Christmas Is Attention

Books and Graphic Novels:

  1. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
  2. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
  3. The Best American Comics 2016 edited by Roz Chast
  4. A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time by Rob Scheer and Jon Sternfeld
  5. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Volume 13 by Fumi Yoshinaga
  6. Yotsuba&! Volume 14 by Kiyohiko Azuma
  7. You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
  8. Tremontaine: The Complete Season 1 by Ellen Kusher et al.
  9. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  10. Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone
  11. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
  12. Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
  13. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
  14. The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story by Marie Kondo and Yuko Uramoto
  15. Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
  16. Abbott by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivela
  17. A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney
  18. Poochytown by Jim Woodring
  19. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  20. The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang
  21. Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey
  22. Guts by Raina Telgemeier
  23. Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
  24. Meddling Kids by Edgar Contero
  25. Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley
  26. Clyde Fans by Seth
  27. Calypso by David Sedaris

Previous Years’ Tallies: