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Top 10 Books of 2023

10. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America - Nicole Eustace

9. In the Distance - Hernan Diaz

8. Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement

7. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

6. Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson

5. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

4. The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

3. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

2. The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky) - N.K. Jemison

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

Honorable mentions:

The Girl Who Cried Monster (Goosebumps #8) - R.L. Stine Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Goosebumps #9) - R.L. Stine The Ghost Next Door (Goosebumps #10) - R.L. Stine The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps #11) - R.L. Stine Hello, Molly!: A Memoir - Molly Shannon No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad - David Haward Bain Be Careful What You Wish For...(Goosbumps #12) - R.L. Stine Piano Lessons Can Be Murder (Goosebumps #13) - R.L. Stine The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (Goosebumps #14) - R.L. Stine Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman You Can't Scare Me! (Goosebumps #15) - R.L. Stine The Street - Ann Petry Omelette: Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations - Jessie Ware Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir - Cyndi Lauper The Power of the Dog - Thomas Savage The Endless and Other Stories - Brandon Baker One Day at Horrorland (Goosebumps #16) - R.L. Stine 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak Why I'm Afraid of Bees (Goosebumps #17) - R.L. Stine Monster Blood II (Goosebumps #18) - R.L. Stine The Story of the World in 100 Species - Christopher Lloyd Facing Mount Kenya - Jomo Kenyatta Deep Trouble (Goosebumps #19) - R.L. Stine Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Future - Merlin Sheldrake The Employees - Olga Ravn The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps #20) - R.L. Stine The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir - Anatole Broyard Bewilderment - Richard Powers Go Eat Worms! (Goosebumps #21) - R.L. Stine Ghost Beach (Goosebumps #22) - R.L. Stine If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - Aubrey Gordon Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin Return of the Mummy (Goosebumps #23) - R.L. Stine A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith Phantom of the Auditorium (Goosebumps #24) - R.L. Stine I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman Attack of the Mutant (Goosebumps #25) - R.L. Stine

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Top 10 Albums of 2023

10. Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End

9. Sir Chloe - I Am the Dog

8. Hepcat - Right On Time

7. Jenny Lewis - Joy'All

6. Bethany Cosentino - Natural Disaster

5. Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention

4. Drug Church - Cheer

3. Metric - Formentera II

2. Mom Jeans. - Sweet Tooth

The Dirty Nil - Free Reign to Passions

Honorable mentions:

Angel Olsen - Forever Means Aziya - Lonely Castles Aziya - We Speak of Tides Bad Nerves - Bad Nerves blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME... Christine and the Queens - PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE Disclosure - Alchemy Django Django - Off Planet Like Pacific - Control My Sanity Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here. Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination Jungle - Volcano Kesha - Gag Order Margo Price - Strays The Mars Volta - Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? Mom Jeans. - Best Buds The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest Octo Octa - Dreams Of A Dancefloor EP Parannoul - After the Magic Romy - Mid Air Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade Spanish Love Songs - Portions For Foxes The Strokes - The Singles - Volume 01 Suki Waterhouse - Milk Teeth Tanukichan - GIZMO

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Top 10 Books of 2022

10. To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara

9. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons - John Paul Brammer

8. Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

7. How We Fight For Our Lives - Saeed Jones

6. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

5. The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz

4. Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth

3. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell

2. Less - Andrew Sean Greer

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Honorable mentions:

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks - Amy Stewart

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

Mr Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology - Lawrence Weschler

Quichotte - Salman Rushdie Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

Tomorrow There Will Be Sun: A Novel - Dana Reinhardt

Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir - Brian Broome

Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture - Jon Savage

Yes, Daddy - Jonathan Parks-Ramage

Happy-Go-Lucky - David Sedaris

The Portrait of a Lady - James Henry

Luster - Raven Leilani

Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art - Carl Hoffman

Harrow - Joy Williams

On the Move: A Life - Oliver Sachs

Stay Out of the Basement (Goosebumps #2) - R.L. Stone

Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps #1) - R.L. Stone

Since I Laid My Burden Down - Brontez Purnell

Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin

Monster Blood (Goosebumps #3) - R.L. Stine

When Brooklyn Was Queer - Hugh Ryan

Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps #4) - R.L. Stone

Less is Lost - Andrew Sean Greer

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (Goosebumps #5) - R.L. Stone

Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel - Truman Capote

The Bird Artist - Howard Norman

Let’s Get Invisible! (Goosebumps #6) - R.L. Stone

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories - Carmen Maria Machado

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps #7) - R.L. Stone

Razorblade Tears - S.A. Cosby

How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

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Top 10 Albums of 2022

10. The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

9. Metric - Formentera

8. Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B

7. Various Artists - Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; Live at the Harlem Cultural Festival, 1969]

6. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

5. Angel Olsen - Big Time

4. PUP - The Unraveling of PUPTheBand

3. Indigo De Souza - I Love My Mom

2. Alvvays - Blue Rev

Turnstile - Glow On

Honorable mentions:

Arcade Fire - WE Christine and the Queens - Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales David Bowie - Let's Dance Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever Honey Dijon - Black Girl Magic Joyce Manor - 40 oz. to Fresno MUNA - MUNA Regina Spektor - Home, before and after Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries II Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries III Santigold - Spirituals Shilpa Ray - Portrait of a Lady Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

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Top 10 Books of 2021

10. Popisho - Leone Ross

9. Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

8. 100 Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell

7. Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

6. The Persian Boy - Mary Renault

5. Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas

4. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

3. Underland: A Deep Time Journey - Robert Macfarlane

2. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

1. Annals of the Former World - John McPhee

Honorable mentions:

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 - David Sedaris The Everglades: River of Grass - Marjory Stoneman Douglas Gay Bar: Why We Went Out - Jeremy Atherton Lin Moonglow - Michael Chabon News of the World - Paulette Giles The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush - Susan Johnson Lee Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2-The Pillars of Civilization - David Vandermeulen, Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Casanave This Is Your Mind on Plants - Michael Pollan Too Bright To See - Kyle Lukoff To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini Train Dreams -  Denis Johnson With Teeth - Kristen Arnett

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Top 10 Albums of 2021

10. PUP - Waiting / Kill Something

9. Jeff Rosenstock - SKA DREAM

8. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take

7. Piroshka - Brickbat

6. Mannequin Pussy - Perfect

5. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame

4. Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine

3. Sir Chloe - Party Favors

2. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art

1. Jackie Shane - Any Other Way

Honorable mentions:

ABBA - Voyage Adele - 30 Amy Winehouse - I Told You I Was Trouble: Live In London The B-52’s - Wild Planet Bicep - Isles Death Cab For Cutie - The Georgia EP Django Django - Glowing in the Dark Eurythmics - Touch Jungle - Loving In Stereo Major Lazer - Music Is The Weapon MUNA - Saves The World Octo Octa - She’s Calling EP The Postal Service - Everything Will Change Rostam - Changephobia Seth Bogart - Men on the Verge of Nothing The Selector - Celebrate the Bullet Sia - Music Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Love For Sale Wavves - Hideaway Yaeji - WHAT WE DREW

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Top 10 Books of 2020 (It Was A Weird Year Edition)

10. Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar

9. Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith

8. Just Kids - Patti Smith

7. God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism - Jonathan Kirsch

6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity   - Katharine Boo

5. Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life As a Fabulous Ronette - Ronnie Specter

4. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin

3. The Overstory - Richard Powers

2. True Grit - Charles Portis

1. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence  - Michael Pollan

Honorable mentions:

Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Volume 1) - David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave, Yuval Noah Harari The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las (33 1/3 Book 138) - Ada Wolin The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky The Topeka School - Ben Lerner Maurice - E.M. Forster Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman

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Top 10 Albums of 2020 (It Was A Weird Year Edition)

10. Caribou - Suddenly

9. Baronhawk Poitier - Temperado Tornado EP

8. Eurythmics - Revenge

7. Disclosure - Energy

6. The Strokes - The New Abnormal

5. Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

4. Best Coast - Always Tomorrow

3. Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams

2. Donna Summer - I Believe In Yesterday

1. Lady Gaga - Chromatica

Honorable mentions:

Alkaline Trio - EP Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace David Bowie - Hunky Dory Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova Cut Copy - Freeze, Melt Empress Of - I’m Your Empress Of Grimes - Miss Anthropocene Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM Jessy Lanza - All the Time Kesha - High Road Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel Margo Price - That’s How Rumors Get Started Of Montreal - UR Fun Orville Peck - Pony The Presets - Blow Up EP Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow The Rules Suicide - Suicide Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Television - Marquee Moon

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Top 10 Books of 2019

10. Little Weirds - Jenny Slate

9. Face It - Debbie Harry

8. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay

7. Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett

6. What Belongs To You - Garth Greenwell

5. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

4. The North Water - Ian McGuire

3. Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 - Lizzy Goodman

2. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr

1. Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston

Honorable mentions:

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love - Amir Levine Dancer From The Dance - David Holleran Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - and Other Possible Phenomena - Mike Pearl Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico - David Bowles Halsey Street - Naima Coster A People’s History of American Empire - Howard Zinn Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed

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Top 10 Albums of 2019

10. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth

9. Jonathan Fire Eater - Wolf Songs For Lambs

8. Diana Ross - Diana

7. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

6. Shilpa Ray - Door Girl

5. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume

4. Charly Bliss - Young Enough

3. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

2. PUP - Morbid Stuff

1. Jenny Lewis - On The Line

Honorable mentions:

Alvvays - Antisocialites Angel Olsen - All Mirrors Bleached - Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough? Charly Bliss - Super Moon EP David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Debbie Harry - KooKoo Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year’s Model The Faint - Egowerk Frank Ocean - Blonde Golden Features - Raka Hot Chip - A Bath Full of Ecstasy July Talk - Touch Mannequin Pussy - Patience The Menzingers - Hello Exile Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away Moodymann - Sinner: KDJ-48 The New Pornographers - In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights Octo Octa - For Lovers EP Octo Octa - Resonant Body Queen - News Of The World

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Top 10 Albums of 2018

10. Metric - Art of Doubt

9. Empress Of - Us

8. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

7. The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack

6. The Presets - Hi Viz

5. David Bowie - Low

4. Eurythmics - Savage

3. The Menzingers -  After The Party

2. Robyn - Honey

1. PUP - The Dream Is Over

Honorable mentions:

A.A.L. - 2012-2017 Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? Bob Moses - Battle Lines Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) Cautious Clay - Blood Type Christine and the Queens - Chris Chvrches - Love Is Dead Culture Abuse - Bay Dream Django Djano - Marble Skies David Bowie - “Heroes” David Bowie - Lodger David Bowie - Young Americans Death in Vegas - Transmission Fischerspooner - Sir Florence + The Machine - High As Hope The Horrors - V Jeff Rosenstock - POST- Jon Hopkins - Singularity Jungle - For Ever Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers - Bought to Rot The Marvelettes - The Marvelettes Sing PUP - PUP Santigold - I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions The Staple Singers - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself Various - Acid Trax 30: Celebrating 30 Years of Acid House yaeji - EP2

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