My favourite books, films, music of 2019

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For the eighth year running…here’s what I loved the most in 2019:

Books:

  1. Crossing to Safety (Stegner)

  2. The Tree of Man (White)

  3. A Bend in the River (Naipaul)

  4. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Tooze) (my notes)

  5. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (Perez)

  6. This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World (Strickler)

  7. The Kingdom (Carrère)

  8. Free as in Software (Stallman)

  9. Architects of Intelligence (Ford)

  10. Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control (Russell)

Films (released in the UK in 2019):

  1. Marriage Story

  2. Burning

  3. Dragged Across Concrete

  4. A Quiet Place

  5. Bait

  6. Honeyland

  7. Ash is Purest White

  8. Parasite

  9. Transit

  10. Minding the Gap

Music (including standout track):

  1. Purple Mountains (All My Happiness is Gone)

  2. Pusha T/Lauren Hill/Kanye (Coming Home)

  3. Dave (Streatham)

  4. Kanye (Follow God)

  5. Maxo Kream (Meet Again)

  6. Skepta (Bullet from a Gun)

  7. Kodak Black (Zeze)

  8. Playboi Carti (Shoota)

  9. Bonny Doon (A Lotta Things)

  10. Stormzy (Vossi Bop)