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Books Read 2021 (plus more)

8/1/2022

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  1. “The Lying Life of Adults” — Elena Ferrante  (January)
  2. “Moscow Circles” — Benedict Erofeev  (January)
  3. “The End of Eddy” — Édourad Louis  (January)
  4. “I Love Dick” — Chris Kraus  (January)
  5. “Persepolis” — Marjane Satrapi  (January)
  6. “Motherhood” — Shelia Heti  (January)
  7. “An Event in Autumn” — Henning Mankell  (February)
  8. “Crush” — Frédéric Dard  (February)
  9. “Crime and Punishment” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (February)
  10. “The Executioner Weeps” — Frédéric Dard  (February)
  11. “Zen and The Art of Murder” — Oliver Bottini  (February)
  12. “In The Cut”  — Susanna Moore  (February)
  13. “One Way Out” — A. A. Dhand  (February)
  14. “A Drinking Life — Pete Hamill  (March)
  15. “Don’t You Leave Me Here” — Wilko Johnson  (March)
  16. “Heartburn” — Nora Ephron  (March)
  17. “Requiem For A Dream” — Hubert Selby Jr.  (March)
  18. “A Boy’s Own Story” — Edmund White  (April)
  19. “The Brotherhood of The Grape” — John Fante  (April)
  20. “MainStream” — Various  (April)
  21. “Who Killed My Father?” — Édourad Louis  (April)
  22. “In The Dream House” — Carmen Maria Machado  (April)
  23. “Waiting Period” — Hubert Selby Jr.  (April)
  24. “Atomic Habits” — James Clear  (April)
  25. “Jews Don’t Count” — David Baddiel  (April)
  26. “Shuggie Bain” — Douglas Stuart  (April)
  27. “Odes” — Sharon Olds  (May)
  28. “The Giro Playboy” — Michael Smith  (May)
  29. “The Descent of Man” — Grayson Perry  (May)
  30. “An Apartment on Uranus” — Paul B. Preciado  (May)
  31. “The Narrow Road to The Deep North” — Basho  (May)
  32. “The Way Home” — Mark Boyle  (May)
  33. “Move!” — Caroline Williams  (May)
  34. “Politically Homeless” — Matt Forde  (June)
  35. “The Tunnel” — Ernesto Sabato  (June)
  36. “Exposure” — Aga Lesiewicz  (June)
  37. “Discipline Equals Freedom” — Jocko Willink  (June)
  38. “Existentialism and Excess: The Life…” — Gary Cox  (June)
  39. “You Were Never Really Here” — Jonathan Ames  (June)
  40. “The Abbey” — Chris Culver  (July)
  41. “Morning: How To Make Time” — Allan Jenkins  (July)
  42. “The Hustler” — Walter Tevis  (July)
  43. “The Shadow Collector” — Kate Ellis  (July)
  44. “Crossroad Blues” — Ace Atkins  (July)
  45. “Luster” — Raven Leilani  (July)
  46. “A Spring Betrayal” — Tom Callaghan  (July)
  47. “Divorcing” — Susan Taubes  (July)
  48. “The Less Dead” — Denise Mina  (July)
  49. “Daisy Jones & The Six” — Taylor Jenkins Reid  (August)
  50. “The Colour of Money” — Walter Tevis  (August)
  51. “The Answer Is…” — Alex Trebek  (August)
  52. “Room at the Top” — John Braine  (August)
  53. “Ankomst” — Gøhril Gabrielsen  (August)
  54. “Hunger” — Knut Hamsun  (August)
  55. “The Lone Woman” — Bernardo Atxaga  (August)
  56. “Everybody” — Olivia Laing  (August)
  57. “Real Estate” — Deborah Levy  (September)
  58. “The King of Fools” — Frédéric Dard  (September)
  59. “Dancing in the Dark” — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (September)
  60. “Kitchen Confidential” — Anthony Bourdain  (September)
  61. “Home in the Vinyl Cafe” — Stuart McLean  (October)
  62. “The Warriors” — Sol Yurick  (October)
  63. “The Listeners” — Jordan Tannahill  (October)
  64. “Invisible Cities” — Italo Calvino  (October)
  65. “The Good Father” — Wayne Grady  (October)
  66. “The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates” — Stuart McLean  (November)
  67. “Sonny Liston Was A Friend of Mine” — Thom Jones  (November)
  68. “Why Marianne Faithfull Matters?” — Tanya Pearson  (November)
  69. “Olive Kitteridge” — Elizabeth Strout  (November)
  70. “Exteriors” — Annie Ernaux  (November)
  71. “Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It” — Oliver Burkeman  (November)
  72. “Life at the Top” — John Braine  (November)
  73. “American Salvage” — Bonnie Jo Campbell  (November)
  74. “A Walk in the Woods” — Bill Bryson  (November)
  75. “Indelicacy” — Amina Cain  (November)
  76. “Second Place” — Rachel Cusk  (November)
  77. “Micromastery” — Robert Twigger  (November)
  78. “Rewilding” — Micah Mortali  (December)
  79. “The War of Art” — Steven Pressfield  (December)
  80. “Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times” — Katherine May  (December)
  81. “Essential: Essays by The Minimalists” — Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn  (December)
  82. “Dhammapada” — Sangharakshita (Trans.)  (December)
  83. “Everything That Remains” — Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.

And just to show that writers don't live in a bubble, here's some other stuff...

Albums Heard 2021

“Ain’t Necessarily So” — Andy Bey
“Groovin’ High” — Dizzy Gillespie
“Milestones” — Miles Davis
“Body and Soul” — Coleman Hawkins
“Besame Mucho” — Art Pepper
“Taj Mahal” — Taj Mahal
“Another Time Another Place” — Kevin Mahogany
“My Romance” — Kevin Mahogany
“Shades of Bey” — Andy Bey
“Naturally” — J J Cale
“Spurts” — Richard Hell
“Leftism” — Leftfied
“I, Assassin” — Gary Numan
“Doctor Adamski’s Musical Pharmacy” — Adamski 
“Funny How Time Slips Away” — Junior Parker
“Lift to The Scaffold” — Miles Davis
“The Other Road” — Ray Barretto
“Indestructible” — Ray Barretto
“Texas Cannonball” — Freddie King
“Charanga Moderna” — Ray Barretto
“The Cry of Love” — Jimi Hendrix
“Elegant Gypsy” — Al Di Meola
“Lazarus: OCR” — Various
“Fleetwood Mac” — Fleetwood Mac
“Arzachel” — Arzachel
“Blood Moon” — Fraction
“A Funky Thide of Sings” — Billy Cobham
“The Allman Brothers Band” — Allman Brothers Band
“Population II” — Randy Holden
“Pappo’s Blues, Vol. 1” — Pappo’s Blues
“Physical Graffiti” — Led Zeppelin
“Years Gone By” — Albert King
“Out of The Wild Come” — The Baron Four
“You Won’t Remember Dying” — Bulbous Creation
“Trip Thru Hell” — C. A. Quintet
“Freddie King Is A Blues Master” — Freddie King
“Burglar” — Freddie King
“Oxygéne” — Jean-Michel Jarre
“Woman Across The Water” — Freddie King
“Will O’ The Wisp” — Leon Russell
“Milo Goes to College” — Descendants
“Yanqui U.X.O” — Godspeed You Black Emperor
“Carney” — Leon Russell
“Kamikaze ’89” — Edgar Froese
“Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” — Wu Tang Clan
“CSN” — Crosby, Stills & Nash
“Morgen” — Morgen
“Demos” — Crosby, Stills & Nash
“Black Sabbath” — Black Sabbath
“Never Say Die!” — Black Sabbath
“Meddle” — Pink Floyd
“Everything Sucks” — Descendants
“Introspection” — The End
“The W” — Wu Tang Clan
“No Man’s Land” — Victor Periano’s Kingdom Come
“13” — Black Sabbath
“Anabelas” — Bubu
“Hyperborea” — Tangerine Dream
“Weasals Ripped My Flesh” — The Mothers of Invention
“13 Songs” — Fugazi
“Tour de France” — Kraftwerk
“Techno Pop” — Kraftwerk
“Jerusalem” — Jerusalem
“Computerwelt” — Kraftwerk
“In The Court of King Crimson” — King Crimson
“Minimum-Maximum” — Kraftwerk
“The Emancipation Procrastination” — Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
“New Long Leg” — Dry Cleaning
“I&II” — Friendship
“Crosby, Stills & Nash” — Crosby, Stills & Nash
“Mm…Food” — MF Doom
“Czarface Meets Metal Face” — Czarface and MF Doom
“Aglio E Olio” — Beastie Boys
“Funhouse” — The Stooges
“Every Hero Needs A Villain” — Czarface
“Wild Things Run Fast” — Joni Mitchell
“Both Sides Now” — Joni Mitchell
“Double Dose of Danger” — Czarface
“Keyboard Fantasies” — Beverly Glenn-Copeland
“The Mouse & The Mask” — Dangerdoom
“Done and…Dusted” — Dust Junkys
“Eliminator” — ZZ Top
“I’m The Man” — Joe Jackson
“So Far” — Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
“Really” — J. J. Cale
“Beverly Glenn-Copeland” — Beverly Glenn-Copeland
“Deguello” — ZZ Top
“Primal Prayer” — Beverly Glenn-Copeland
“Nothin’ but the Blues…Live” — Lightin’ Hopkins & Freddie King
“Other Voices” — The Doors
“Confusion” — The Big Brother & Ernie Joseph
“Secrets” — Herbie Hancock
“Eat A Peach” — Allman Brothers Band
“Idelwild South” — Allman Brothers Band
“Solitary High Social Club” — Lay-Far & Phil Gerus
“At Fillmore East” — Allman Brothers Band
“Big Lizard in My Back Yard” — The Dead Milkmen
“Beelzebubba” — The Dead Milkmen
“Green Twins” — Nick Hakim
“Claremont Editions, Vol. 1” — Various​
“One Trick Pony” — Paul Simon
​“Gentle Giant” — Gentle Giant
 “Walk Among Us” — Misfits
 “The Sonics Boom” — The Sonics
 “Toxicity” — System Of A Down
 “Lost Chance” — James Chance & The Contortions
 “Whistling Down The Wire” — Crosby & Nash
 “Heavy Soul” — Paul Weller
 “The Köln Concert” — Keith Jarrett
 “Sounds of Silence” — Simon & Garfunkel
 “Old Friends Live On Stage” — Simon & Garfunkel
 “Fillmore East 1970” — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
 “The Wind” — Balmorhea
 “Free Your Mind…” — Funkadelic
 “Maggot Brain” — Funkadelic
 “Angel Clare” — Art Garfunkel
 “Electric Music For The Mind & Body” — County Joe & The Fish
 “Shotgun Willie” — Willie Nelson
 “Future Days” — Can
 “Frampton” — Peter Frampton
 “True Meanings” — Paul Weller
 “Funkadelic” — Funkadelic
 “Zoolook” — Jean-Michel Jarre
 “Aqualung” — Jethro Tull
 “Dem Bones/Decapitated” — Broken Bones
 “Mothership Connection” — Parliament
“Stoned Guitar” — The Human Instinct
“Third Dimension” — Rahsaan Ronald Kirk
 “Colours” — Ken Nordine
 “Brutalism”— Idles


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That's 375 albums in total. Can recommend most of them.

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Films Watched 2021

  1. “The Green Ray” (1986, Dir. Eric Rohmer)
  2. “Jack Reacher” (2012, Dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
  3. “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” (2016, Dir. Edward Zwick)
  4. “The Minimalists: Less Is Now” (2021, Dir. Matt D’Avella)
  5. “Mission: Impossible” (1996, Dir. Brian DePalma)  (again)
  6. “Mission: Impossible II” (2000, Dir. John Woo)
  7. “Mission: Impossible III” (2006, Dir. J.J. Abrams)  (again)
  8. “Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol” (2011, Dir. Brad Bird)
  9. “Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation” (2015, Dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
  10. “Mission: Impossible - Fallout” (2018, Dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
  11. “7 Years” (2016, Dir. Roger Gual)
  12. “Election” (1999, Dir. Alexander Payne)  (again)
  13. “My Sister’s Good Fortune” (1995, Dir. Angela Schanelec)
  14. “While Were Young” (2014, Dir. Noah Baumbach)  (again)
  15. “Non-Fiction” (2018, Dir. Oliver Assayas)
  16. “The Long Goodbye” (1973, Dir. Robert Altman)
  17. “The Big Feast” (1973, Dir. Marco Ferreri)
  18. “The Lie” (2018, Dir. Veena Sud)
  19. “Fantastic Mr Fox” (2009, Dir. Wes Anderson)
  20. “Pleasantville” (1998, Dir. Gary Ross)  (again)
  21. “Bombshell” (2019, Dir. Jay Roach)
  22. “The Captor” (2018, Dir. Robert Budreau)
  23. “Young Guns” (1988, Dir. Christopher Cain)
  24. “Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory” (1990, Dir. Geoff Murphy)
  25. “Mystery Men” (1999, Dir. Kinka Usher)
  26. “The Blues Brothers” (1980, Dir. John Landis)  (again)
  27. “Boyhood” (2014, Dir. Richard Linklater)
  28. “Room” (2015, Dir. Lenny Abrahamson)
  29. “Men With Brooms” (2002, Dir. Paul Gross)
  30. “Lift to the Scaffold” (1958, Dir. Louis Malle)  (again)
  31. “Mank” (2020, Dir. David Fincher)
  32. “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (1972, Dir. Peter Yates)
  33. “A Special Day” (1977, Dir. Ettore Scola)
  34. “Rope” (1948, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock)  (again)
  35. “Sound of Metal” (2020, Dir. Darius Marder)
  36. “The Birds” (1963, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
  37. “The Fly” (1986, Dir. David Cronenberg)  (again)
  38. “Carrie” (1976, Dir. Brian DePalma)  (again)
  39. “Hair” (1979, Dir. Milos Forman)
  40. “House on Haunted Hill” (1959, Dir. William Castle)
  41. “Theatre of Blood” (1973, Dir. )
  42. “Nomadland” (2020, Dir. Chloé Zhao)
  43. “The Father” (2020, Dir. Florian Zeller)
  44. “The Outsiders” (1983, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
  45. “The Terminator” (1984, Dir. James Cameron)  (again)
  46. “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” (1991, Dir. James Cameron)  (again)
  47. “Terminator Genisys” (2015, Dir. Alan Taylor)
  48. “Terminator: Dark Fate” (2019, Dir. Tim Miller)
  49. “The Truth” (2019, Dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
  50. “The New Girlfriend” (2014, Dir. François Ozon)
  51. “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” (2021, Morgan Neville)
  52. “Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart” (2014, Dir. Cédric Anger)
  53. “La Piscine” (1969, Dir. Jacques Deray)
  54. “The Puffy Chair” (2009, Dir. Jay Duplass)
  55. “Claire’s Knee” (1970, Dir. Eric Rohmer)
  56. “Leg Gang” (1977, Dir. Jacques Deray)

Films in bold were particularly good.

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