The Lists of 2021
As we come to the end of the year I guess it’s time to start compiling lists of things. So here are the songs, books and movies I’ve consumed in 2021. The music takes the form of a Spotify playlist of top songs I enjoyed in 2021, while the other two are literal lists, with my favourites of each category put in bold. Enjoy:
MUSIC OF 2021
Here’s my Playlist of what I enjoyed that was new in 2021.
BOOKS OF 2021
Here’s what I read in 2021:
“Such A Fun Age” - Kiley Reid
“HORRORSTÖR” - Grady Hendrix
“Foucault, Power, and Education” - Stephen J. Ball
“Birdwatchingwatching” - Alex Horne
“Living My Life” - Emma Goldman
“The Terror” - Dan Simmons (tapped out at page 210)
“Straight Outta Crawley” - Romesh Ranganathan
“Colony” - Benjamin Cross
“The Weight of a Thousand Feathers” - Brian Conaghan
“A Dutiful Boy” - Mohsin Zaidi
“Queenie” - Candice Carty-Williams
“The Problem With Men” - Richard Herring
“Smash! Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX + The ‘90s Punk Explosion” - Ian Winwood
“Wakenhyrst” - Michelle Paver
“As Good As It Gets” - Romesh Ranganathan
“Global Punk: Resistance and Rebellion in Everyday Life” - Kevin Dunn
“The Edge” - James Smythe (tapped out at 100 pages)
“Spring” - Ali Smith
“Burning Down The Haus” - Tim Mohr
“Jews Don’t Count” - David Baddiel
“Later” - Stephen King
"Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century" - Kehinde Andrews
"Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking" - Ashley "Dotty" Charles
"Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution" - Sara Marcus
"Women, Race & Class" - Angela Y Davis
"The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem" - Amanda Gorman
"On Connection" - Kae Tempest
"Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work" - Akilah S Richards
"The Committed" - Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Life as a Unicorn" - Amrou Al-Kadhi
"Punk and Revolution" - Shane Greene
"F*** Neoliberalism" - Simon Springer
"American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin" - Terrance Hayes
"Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny" - Kate Manne
"Work Won't Love You Back" - Sarah Jaffe
"Girl, Woman, Other" - Bernadine Evaristo
"Coronavirus, Class and mutual Aid in the United Kingdom" - John Preston and Rhiannon Firth
"Punishment: The Supposed justifications" - Ted Honderich
"Responsibility for Justice" - Iris Marion Young
"Anger and Forgiveness" - Martha Nussbaum
"A Question of Trust" - Onora O'Neill
"Young bucks: Killing The Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues" - Matt and Nick Jackson
"Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution" - Walter Crasshole et al
"Beyond Schooling: An Anarchist Challenge" - David H Hargreaves
"Conspiracy Theories" - Quassim Cassam
"Quarantine Comix: A Memoir of Life in Lockdown" - Rachael Smith
"English Pastoral: An Inheritance" - James Rebanks
"Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing" - Miranda Fricker
"Dark Academia" - Peter Fleming
"Everything Must Change: Philosophical Lessons from Lockdown" - Vittorio Bufacchi
"The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh" - Vincent Van Gogh
"Knowledge and the State of Nature" - Edward Craig
"Summer" - Ali Smith
"The Queer Art of Failure" - Jack Halberstam
"My Best Friend's Exorcism" - Grady Hendrix
"The Ruins" - Scott Smith
"Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" - Steven Tyler
"The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" - Grady Hendrix
"NYC: Basic Tips and Etiquette" - Nathan Pyle
"I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" - Stephanie Kuehnert
"Memorial" - Bryan Washington
"Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café" - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
"You Love Me" - Caroline Kepnes
"Batman: Last Knight on Earth" - Scott Synder et al
"The Code of the Woosters" - P.G. Wodehouse
"In: A Graphic Novel" - Will McPhail
"The Final Girl Support Group" - Grady Hendrix
"Night Passage" - Robert B. Parker
"Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability" - J. Jack Halberstam
"The House of Spirits" - Isabel Allende
"Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour" - Tom Bennett
"And Away…" - Bob Mortimer
"Black Resistance to British Policing" - Adam Elliot-Cooper
"Ghosts" - Dolly Alderton
"The Racial Contract" - Charles W. Mills
"Reprieve" - James Han Mattson
"The End of Bias" - Jessica Nordell
"Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack" - Richard Ovenden
"A Boy Called Christmas" - Matt Haig
"Lolita" - Vladimir Nabokov
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
"Life Without Children" - Roddy Doyle
"Just William at Christmas" - Richmal Crompton
"Rover Saves Christmas" - Roddy Doyle
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist" - Adrian Tomine
MOVIES OF 2021
Here’s the movies I watched in 2021:
Mr Holmes
Murder on the Orient Express
Alive
Calamity Jane
Baby Boom
Tenet
Bill and Ted Face The Music
Harry and the Hendersons
Bad Boys II
Stepping Out
The Girl on the Train
King Rocker
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
The Cable Guy
Begin Again
Benjamin
Grey Gardens
Irresistible
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Blades of Glory
Eighth Grade
Coming 2 America
Joy
Pal Joey
Tina
Easter Parade
Black Panther
Kong vs Godzilla
Captain Marvel
Sound of Metal
The Secret Life of Pets
Avengers: Endgame
Risky Business
Nobody
F9
A Quiet Place - Part II
Black Widow
Suicide Squad
Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Justice League
Man of Steel
Stir Crazy
Jungle Cruise
The Dig
The Suicide Squad
Batman vs Superman
MI3
The Castle
The Ice Storm
Paris When It Sizzles
In Love and War
The Happy Prince
Wonder Woman 1984
The Amazing Spiderman
Candyman (2021)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings
No Time To Die
Free Guy
Wild
Halloween Kills
Dune
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Sex and the City 2
House of Gucci
The Holiday
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Cruella
Home Alone
It Happened on 5th Avenue
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Kiss Me Kate
Guys and Dolls
Encanto
Being The Ricardos