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The Best of the Rest of 2020: Music, Books, Etc.

Before I do the big Best Movies of 2020 list, I thought I would just give you a few random lists of music, books, and streaming movies and specials I liked in 2020.

I'm not ranking any of these, because I'm not particularly good at discerning between good music and great music, amazing books and books that are just okay.

So, like the podcast list, these will just be things I enjoyed.

Happy Reading

My Favorite Books of 2020

Memorial, by Bryan Washington
Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell
Riot Baby, by Tochi Onyebuchi
Weather, by Jenny Offill
Cleanness, by Garth Greenwell
And I Do Not Forgive You, by Amber Sparks
Writers & Lovers, by Lily King
Just Us, by Claudine Rankine

Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson (My Favorite Book of the Year)

My Favorite Albums of 2020

Aloha, Son Little
Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa
Superstar, Caroline Rose
Saint Cloud, Waxahatchee
Local Honey, Brian Fallon
Supernova, Caitlyn Smith
Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple
We Are Sent Here By History, Shabaka and the Ancestors
Every Bad, Porridge Radio
Before Love Came to Kill Us, Jessie Reyez
Good News, Megan Thee Stallion
how i'm feeling now, Charli XCX
A Muse in Her Feelings, dvsn
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius
Notes on a Conditional Form, The 1975
Ceremony, Phantogram
Spider Tales, Jake Blount
RTJ4, Run the Jewels
Everything Changes in the End, Vistas
Heartbreaker Please, Teddy Thompson
Beginners, Christian Lee Hudson
Neon Cross, Jaime Wyatt
Petals for Armor, Hayley Williams
Folk ‘n Roll Vol 1: Tales of Isolation, J.S. Ondara
Startisha, Naeem
Ungodly Hour, Chloe x Halle
Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers
The Album, Teyana Taylor
Women in Music Pt. III, HAIM
SAWAYAMA, Rina Sawayama
Expectations, Katie Pruitt
That's How Rumors Get Started, Margot Price
None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive, The Streets
Pauline, Ashley Ray
Total Freedom, Kathleen Edwards
What's Your Pleasure?, Jessie Ware
Play with Fire, L.A. Witch
Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me, Waylon Payne

Mama, You Can Bet, Jyoti and Georgia Anne (My Favorite Album of the Year)

My Favorite Streaming Movies/Specials

Douglas
Black is King
What the Constitution Means to Me
American Utopia
Momma, I Made It
Work It
Between the World and Me
Nate
Weakness is the Brand
Horndog
In the Morning

Next week, the movie list arrives, so be prepared to argue with me now.

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