Here is a spotty and incomplete list of books and movies that I’ve watched lately. (I keep forgetting to add things to this list, which makes for long gaps in the chronology. I’ve solved the problem by leaving off the dates of when I read or watched, but I’ve just started breaking them into years. There are many more works (both books and movies) that I’ve started but not finished, because life is too short. I don’t include those here. This list was most recently updated on January 4, 2020.)
2020
The Collapse of Western Civilization (Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway)
2019
A Test of Wills (Charles Todd)
The Optimist’s Telescope (Bina Venkataraman)
Eight Days a Week
The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
It’s a Wonderful Life
Chasing Ice
Eight Days a Week
Multiply/Divide (Wendy S. Walters)
Gravity
The Trespasser (Tana French)
The Irishman (2x)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Searchers
The Secret Place (Tana French)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
Making Waves
Spanish Prisoner
Broken Harbor (Tana French)
Jojo Rabbit
Swimming to Cambodia
Faithful Place (Tana French)
Το ημερολόγιο ενός σπασίκλα /Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeeves and the King of Clubs (Ben Schott)
Ring for Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Benjamin Dreyer)
Life, Animated
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Time Bandits
The Roaring Twenties
Marie Antoinette
Blue Planet 2
Voices of the Food Revolution (John Robbins)
The Likeness (Tana French)
In the Woods (Tana French)
Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Odd Man Out
Falter (Bill McKibben)
The Titfield Thunderbolt
The Maggie
Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The Day of the Jackal
The Eye of the Needle (Ken Follett)
Oliver Twist
The Day of the Jackal (Frederick Forsyth)
The Doorbell Rang (Rex Stout)
A Prayer for the City (Buzz Bissinger)
The Nine Tailors (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
Greek to Me (Mary Norris)
Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie)
Bombshell
The Five Red Herrings (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The Man Who Would Be King
Strong Poison (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Sisters-in-Law
Have His Carcase (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Clouds of Witness (Dorothy L. Sayers)
When We Were Kings
The Fog of War
The Thin Blue Line
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Exit Through the Gift Shop
And Dangerous to Know (Elizabeth Daly)
A Surfeit of Lampreys (Ngaio Marsh)
Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Mercury 13
Diplomatie
To Love and Be Wise (Josephine Tey)
The Full Monty
The Guilty
The Eagle Has Landed
Vintage Murder (Ngaio Marsh)
The Uninhabitable Earth (David Wallace-Wells)
Death and the Dancing Footman (Ngaio Marsh)
Night at the Vulcan (Ngaio Marsh)
Swing Brother Swing (Ngaio Marsh)
Final Curtain (Ngaio Marsh)
Death at the Bar (Ngaio Marsh)
Overture to Death (Ngaio Marsh)
The Nursing Home Murder (Ngaio Marsh)
Enter a Murderer (Ngaio Marsh)
A Man Lay Dead (Ngaio Marsh)
Death in a White Tie (Ngaio Marsh)
Argo
Where Eagles Dare
The B Corp Handbook
Sully
Cabin in the Sky
Lion
Thank You, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
The Doctor of Thessaly (Anne Zouroudi)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
The Miracle at St. Anna (James McBride)
The Accidental Alchemist (Gigi Pandian)
North of Ithaka (Eleni N. Gage)
2018 and Earlier
Roma
Tied up in Tinsel (Ngaio Marsh)
The House on Paradise Street (Sofka Zinovieff )
The Taint of Midas (Anne Zouroudi)
Locke
The Scapegoat (Sophia Nikolaidou)
RGB
Eleni (Nicholas Gage)
Inspector Imanishi Investigates (Seicho Matsumoto)
Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
The Big Lebowskii
The Queen of Versailles
The Lady of Sorrows (Anne Zouroudi)
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Jeff Goodell)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Artists in Crime (Ngaio Marsh)
A Shilling for Candles (Josephine Tey)
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
The Godfather (movie)
First Man
The Old Man and the Gun
The Man in the Queue (Josephine Tey)
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Eric Ambler)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)
Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Timothy Snyder)
The Flick (Annie Baker)
Something New (P.G. Wodehouse)
Damsel in Distress (P.G. Wodehouse)
Dear Mrs. Bird (AJ Pearce)
Founding Brothers (Joseph Ellis)
News of the World (Paulette Jiles)
Warlight (Michael Ondaatje)
Martin Marten (Brian Doyle)
Manhattan Beach (Jennifer Egan)
Wasted!
Doubt: A Parable (John Patrick Shanley)
Oregon Stories
My Darling Clementine
The Magnificent Seven
Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem (Donald Murray)
Some Like It Hot
The Great Escape
A Visit from the Goon Squad(Jennifer Egan)
Isle of Dogs
Lincoln in the Bardo(George Saunders)
A Ghost Story
Dunkirk
Bats of the Republic (Zachary Thomas Dodson)
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Tokyo!
A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
Wonder Woman
Kinky Boots
Pride
Wax Bullet War
Ricochet River (Robin Cody)
A Series of Small Maneuvers
Christmas in July
The Awful Truth
The Lake District Murder
The Road to Little Dribbling (Bill Bryson)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Forks Over Knives
Tim’s Vermeer
Meru
The Battle of Algiers
The Band’s Visit
Z
Departures
The Goldfinch
The Art of the Steal
Loin des Hommes
“The Deep,” Anthony Doerr
Son of Saul
All the Light We Cannot See
The Marshlands
Theeb
Fury
Appaloosa
The 39 Steps
Steve Jobs
Beasts of No Nation
Brooklyn
Spotlight
The Big Short
His Girl Friday
Grand Budapest Hotel
Hail Caesar
The Usual Suspects
Merchants of Doubt
Twilight Samurai
Death in Ecstasy
The Lavender Hill Mob
Ten Canoes
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Die Hard
One for the Money