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February 25, 2017

'16 Lists


Like every year:

Best films seen in 2016 (I watch most films on Sky television, so they will likely be from past years):
Fury
Kingsman
La vie en rose
Joe
The Signal
True Story
Intersteller
Zero Theorem
Anomalisa

Best TV 2016: (besides last year's list)
Rectify
Westworld
Billions
Foyle's War
Extant
Endeavour
Dicte (Danish)

Best books 2016 (excepting research):
Ramayana
Later the Same Day, Grace Paley
The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley
Make-Believe, David Mamet
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
A Modern Instance, William Dean Howells
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders
Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
The Abundance, Annie Dillard