My favourite books, films and music of 2020

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For the ninth year running…here’s what I loved the most in 2020. Not a great year for media consumption!

Books:

  1. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) (Liu Cixin)

  2. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) (Liu Cixin)

  3. Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) (Liu Cixin)

  4. Wilding (Isabella Tree)

  5. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Joseph Henrich)

  6. An Accelerationist Reader (Various)

  7. Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize (Sean Carroll)

  8. The Precipice (Toby Ord)

  9. Real Life (Brandon Taylor)

  10. Range (David Epstein)

Films:

  1. Uncut Gems

  2. So Long My Son

  3. Queen & Slim

  4. The Favourite

  5. The Assistant

  6. Lovers Rock

  7. Mogul Mowgli

  8. Clemency

  9. King of Staten Island

  10. The Wild Goose Lake

Music (including standout track):

  1. Lil Simz (101 fm)

  2. Grimes (Delete Forever)

  3. Drakeo the Ruler (Keep it 100)

  4. Psychs (Spreadin’ Coronavirus)

  5. Haim (Don’t Wanna)

  6. Kamikaze (Memories)

  7. Waxahatchee (Can’t Do Much)