Movies and Books: 2016

This was in some ways a very good year; I saw more movies and read many more books than last year! It also seems to be the year I’ve more or less given up the ghost on tracking any serialized comics in Goodreads (which is how I keep up with what I’ve read each year), as well as tracking zines and such. I’ve also read a lot less serials now that I’m writing far fewer articles about them, which is certainly part of it. A few got added into the list, but the attempt to do so slacked off tremendously the further into 2016 I went.

Anyway, a nice tally of films and books, if nothing else, and I’m hoping to continue that progress into 2017.

Movies:

  1. Carol
  2. Brooklyn
  3. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2016: Live Action
  4. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2016: Animated
  5. Hail, Caesar!
  6. Max Max: Fury Road
  7. Zootopia
  8. Marguerite
  9. Hello, My Name is Doris
  10. Midnight Special
  11. Captain America: Civil War
  12. Love & Friendship
  13. The Lobster
  14. The Lovers and the Despot
  15. Obit
  16. AFI Docs Shorts Program: No Borders
  17. Under the Sun
  18. Looking: The Movie
  19. Finding Dory
  20. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
  21. Star Trek Beyond
  22. Kubo and the Two Strings
  23. Hell or High Water
  24. Captain Fantastic
  25. Steel Magnolias
  26. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  27. Moonlight
  28. The Handmaiden [아가씨 Agassi]
  29. Being 17 [Quand on a 17 ans]
  30. Manchester by the Sea
  31. Mother [Ema]
  32. Frantz
  33. Arrival

Plays/Performances:

  1. Bianca del Rio’s Not Today, Satan
  2. Carousel

Books:

  1. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
  2. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
  3. The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
  4. When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
  5. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  6. Tropic of Sunshine by Patrick Youngblood
  7. Drag Teen by Jeffrey Self
  8. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
  9. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  10. In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
  11. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  12. The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
  13. The Black Archive: Ghost Light by Jonathan Dennis
  14. What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew
  15. The Mystical Beast by Alison Farthing
  16. Naming The Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
  17. Look Away by George Alec Effinger
  18. Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg
  19. Superman: The Unauthorized Biography by Glen Weldon
  20. Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
  21. All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay D.C. by Craig Seymour
  22. Arabian Wine by Gregory Feeley
  23. This Census-Taker by China Mieville
  24. Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
  25. The Black Archive: Image of the Fendahl by Simon Bucher-Jones
  26. Lion Time in Timbuctoo by Robert Silverberg
  27. The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
  28. Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
  29. Three Moments of an Explosion by China Meville
  30. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
  31. Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
  32. More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
  33. Stoner by John Williams

Graphic Novels:

  1. Killing and Dying: Stories by Adrian Tomine
  2. Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker by Ed Piskor
  3. Scheherazade: Comics About Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters edited by Megan Kelso
  4. Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague by Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli
  5. The Best American Comics 2009 edited by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel, and Matt Madden
  6. The Best American Comics 2010 edited by Neil Gaiman, Jessica Abel, and Matt Madden
  7. Emma Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
  8. The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide by Kieron Gillen and assorted artists
  9. Doctor Fate Vol. 1: The Blood Price by Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew
  10. Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity by Mike Yamada, Victoria Ying, and Jonathan Ying
  11. You Don’t Say by Nate Powell
  12. Black River by Josh Simmons
  13. Our Expanding Universe by Alex Robinson
  14. Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 2: Feasts of Fury by Eric Colossal
  15. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 10 by Fumi Yoshinaga
  16. East of West Vol. 5: All These Secrets by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
  17. Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton
  18. Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
  19. Bitch Planet Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
  20. Trash Market by Tadao Tsuge
  21. How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman, Fabio Moon, and Gabriel Ba
  22. Snow Angel by David Chelsea
  23. SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
  24. Yotsuba&! Vol. 13 by Kiyohiko Azuma
  25. Nemo: River of Ghosts by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
  26. Al-Qaeda’s Super Secret Weapon by Mohammad al-Mohamed Muhammad
  27. Mae Vol. 1 by Gene Ha
  28. Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain and Langdon Foss
  29. Elfquest: Wolfrider Vol. 1 by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
  30. Elfquest: Wolfrider Vol. 2 by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
  31. Elfquest: The Discovery by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
  32. Elfquest: Dreamtime by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
  33. Elfquest: The Searcher and the Sword by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
  34. Elfquest: In All But Blood by Wendy Pini, Richard Pini, and company
  35. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
  36. Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet
  37. What’s Your Sign, Girl? edited by Robert Kirby
  38. Emma Vol. 2 by Kaoru Mori
  39. To Terra… Vol. 1 by Keiko Takemiya
  40. Guardians of the Louvre by Jiro Taniguchi
  41. Alphabet edited by Jon Macy and Tara Avery
  42. The Omega Men: The End is Here by Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda
  43. Hilda and the Stone Forest by Luke Pearson
  44. Emma Vol. 3 by Kaoru Mori
  45. Angel Catbird Vol. 1 by Margaret Atwood and Johnnie Christmas
  46. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
  47. The Best American Comics 2014 edited by Scott McCloud and Bill Kartalopoulos
  48. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
  49. Bread and Wine by Samuel R. Delany and Mia Wolff
  50. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 11 by Fumi Yoshinaga

Previous Years’ Tallies: