My Best of 2023

In honor of continuing the yearly tradition, here’s my list for 2023:

Top 5 Albums:

1. The National — The First Two Pages of Frankenstein
2. The National — Laugh Track
3. Local Natives — Time Will Wait For No One
4. The Rural Alberta Advantage — The Rise & The Fall
5. Bombay Bicycle Club — My Big Day

Top 5 Movies:

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse
2. Elemental
3. Asteroid City
4. Barbie
5. The Marvels

Top 5 TV shows:

1. Lessons in Chemistry S1
2. Invasion S1 / One Piece S1
3. Foundation S2 / Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1
4. Hijack / Loki S2
5. Succession S3 / For All Mankind S4

Top 5 Games:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
2. Alan Wake 2
3. Baldur’s Gate 3
4. Resident Evil 4 Remake
5. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

Top 5 Books:

1. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, & Tomorrow
2. Project Hail Mary
3. The Three Body Problem
4. Sea of Tranquility
5. The Memory Police

It’s the return of my book list! I got really into reading this year thanks in part to having joined a book club that made reading a more sustainable habit. It’s rare for me to find a good book that makes me want to spend more time reading it more than playing a video game, but there were several this year.

Also loved playing Zelda, having put in over a hundred a fifty hours into it over the course of the summer. Truly a landmark game. There were actually a lot of great games that came out this year which I haven’t had a chance to play yet, so looking forward to doing that next year. And I binge-listened to The National on repeat for pretty much the entirety of the year, having even gone to see them live in San Francisco performing their two album drops of the year.

Movies and TV shows were meh this year at best. They were good, but nothing that completely blew me away like years before. Oh well, there’s always next year. On to 2024!