TEN SONGS I LIKED THIS YEARTEN BOOKS I LIKED THIS YEAR
Alexandra - Hamilton Leithauser

Good Feelings - Has-Lo & Castle

Goshen '97 - Strand of Oaks

How to Kill God - Apollo Brown & Ras Kass

i - Kendrick Lamar

Micheline - Sun Kil Moon

Never Catch Me - Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar

Seasons (Waiting on You) - Future Islands

Turtles All the Way Down - Sturgill Simpson

Wishing You Well - MikeWiLLMakonnen

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen

The Black Swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Blue Highways - William Least Heat-Moon

Day of the Minotaur - Thomas Burnett Swann

Distant Neighbors - Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Islam Without Extremes - Mustafa Akyol

Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin

Samarkand - Amin Maalouf

Well Come - Erik Nebel

THREE ALBUMS THAT SUCKED THIS YEAR
Lateness of Dancers - Hiss Golden Messenger

Seeds - TV on the Radio

They Want My Soul - Spoon

TWO BOOKS THAT SUCKED THIS YEAR
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami

Tea with Hezbollah - Ted Dekker