As another year comes to a close, I'm here again doing one of my favorite things: compiling a list of my favorite books and other media I enjoyed during the year and sharing it with others. See below for my favorites in 2023.
Favorite Album of the Year
I didn't listen to a lot of new music this year. The only stand-out album for me was Jon Guerra's Ordinary Ways. While I didn't love at as much as his album Keeper of Days from 2020, it was still excellent.
Favorite TV of the Year
I also didn't watch a lot of TV this year, but I thoroughly enjoyed the latest seasons of The Bear and The Crown.
Favorite Movies I Watched This Year (from the last two years)
I was able to watch a few more movies this year than I typically do, including playing catch up on some great movies from last year. Here are my favorites:
- Living (2023)
- Past Lives (2023)
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- Tar (2022)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
- The Holdovers (2023)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
- Glass Onion (2022)
Favorite Books I Read This Year
I was not as diligent at keeping up with book reviews this year, so I'll be abstaining from having a dedicated post for my favorite books. However, I was still able to get to 46 books and enjoyed quite a few. Here are my favorite books that I read this year:
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk (2014) - brief review
- The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale (2022) - brief review
- Living Into Focus by Arthur Boers (2012) - brief review
- Remembering by Wendell Berry (1988)
- Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (2004)
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (1962)
- Surrender by Bono (2022)
- The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder & Michel Hendricks (2020) - brief review
- A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly (1941) - brief review
- How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key (2023)
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (2014)
- Timothy Keller by Colin Hansen (2023)
- Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey (2021)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2009)
- Under the Unpredictable Plant by Eugene Peterson (1992)
- A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan (2023)
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks (2019)
- Anam Cara by John O’Donohue (1997)
- Mansions of the Heart by Thomas Ashbrook (2009) - brief review
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor (1971)