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

Here are the three lists separated by genre and ordered by your rating (highest to lowest).

Fiction

Novels and short story collections

  1. 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster
  2. Sessanta racconti, Dino Buzzati
  3. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  4. Stoner, John Williams
  5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
  6. The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
  7. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
  8. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
  9. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
  10. Racconti di Odessa, Isaak Babel’
  11. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
  12. L’Imperatore di Portugallia, Selma Lagerlöf
  13. Last Days, Brian Evenson
  14. The Blacktongue Thief, Christopher Buehlman
  15. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
  16. The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin
  17. The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
  18. Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
  19. The Third Man, Graham Greene
  20. The Fisherman, John Langan
  21. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
  22. Un buio diverso. Voci dai Necromilieus, Luigi Musolino
  23. Mort, Terry Pratchett
  24. I detective selvaggi, Roberto Bolaño
  25. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
  26. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
  27. La settimana bianca, Emmanuel Carrère
  28. Viriconium, M. John Harrison
  29. Rules for a Knight, Ethan Hawke
  30. Il detective sonnambulo, Vanni Santoni
  31. Le cose che abbiamo perso nel fuoco, Mariana Enriquez
  32. Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey
  33. Excession, Iain M. Banks
  34. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

American novels (and non-novels): “4 3 2 1”, “American Pastoral”, “Stoner”, “Demon Copperhead”, “Patrimony”; re-discovery of David Mitchell; some classics.

Graphic Novels

Fewer than the last few years.

  1. L’età dell’oro, Cyril Pedrosa
  2. Monica, Daniel Clowes

Non-Fiction

  1. Apple in China, Patrick McGee
  2. La dieta termodinamica, Dario Bressanini
  3. Patrimony, Philip Roth
  4. Room to Dream, David Lynch
  5. Bozze non corrette, Stefano Bartezzaghi

Other bits and pieces. “Apple in China” was extremely interesting.

Games

  1. Blue Prince (PC), 2025
  2. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PC), 2024
  3. Her Story (PC), 2015
  4. What Remains of Edith Finch (mobile), 2017