My Favorite Everything of 2023

Books:

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Pure Color by Sheila Heti

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

I Who Have Never Known Men By Jaqueline Harpmen

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Upstream by Mary Oliver

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Songs:

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen

Enter Laughing - Electrelane

Here, There, and Everywhere - The Beatles

From the Morning - Nick Drake

Lady Bird - Nancy Sinatra

Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

Summertime - The Sundays

Red Moon - Big Thief

ingydar - Adrianne Lenker

Green Bus - The Innocence Mission

Dissect the Bird - John Craigie

Fish and Whistle - John Prine

Films:

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

Asteroid City (dir. Wes Anderson)

Frances Ha (dir. Greta Gerwig)

Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig)

Carol (dir. Todd Hayes)

The Boy and the Heron (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

Poems:

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

The Shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver