A quick end-of-year retrospective, with selected media I consumed (and enjoyed) throughout the year. Not limited to things that were published this year, except for movies.

Books

  1. La variante di Lüneburg, Paolo Maurensig
  2. Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
  3. La moustache, Emmanuel Carrère
  4. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin
  5. Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman
  6. The Word for World Is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
  7. Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia E. Butler
  8. Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky
  9. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2), Frank Herbert
  10. Satsujin Shussan, Sayaka Murata
  11. Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
  12. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula K. Le Guin
  13. Toscani maledetti, Raoul Bruni
  14. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
  15. Lo specchio che fugge, Giovanni Papini
  16. Normal People, Sally Rooney

Comics

  1. The Complete Eightball, Daniel Clowes
  2. Planetes – Complete Edition, Makoto Yukimura
  3. A Contract with God, Will Eisner
  4. Combat ordinaire, Manu Larcenet
  5. Prosopopus, Nicolas De Crécy
  6. I classici del fumetto di Repubblica n. 18: Rat-Man, Leo Ortolani
  7. Saga, Book 1-3, Brian K. Vaughan
  8. Le Monde d’Edena, Mœbius
  9. Trois Ombres, Cyril Pedrosa
  10. The Collected Essex County, Jeff Lemire
  11. High Societys, Dave Sim
  12. Lupus, Frederik Peeters
  13. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 and 2, Alan Moore
  14. Helter Skelter, Kyōko Okazaki

Games

  1. Death Stranding (PS4), 2019
  2. Tunic (PS4), 2022
  3. Chants of Sennaar (PS4), 2023
  4. The rise of the golden idol (mobile), 2024
  5. Mouthwashing (PC), 2024
  6. Dredge (PS4), 2023
  7. Pentiment (PS4), 2023
  8. What the golf (PS4), 2020

Film/TV

Restricted to things published in 2024 - I got to see very few movies in a theater.

  1. Dune: Part 2, Denis Villeneuve
  2. Poor things!, Yorgos Lanthimos
  3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, George Miller
  4. The Boy and The Heron, Hayao Miyazaki

Movies I’d like to recover: The Substance, Anora, Juror #2, The Zone of Interest, Challengers, Hit Man, Civil War.

  1. Slow Horses, Season 4
  2. The Gentlemen
  3. Arcane, Season 2