2024: Films, books, music

More lists! Nine films came out in the UK in 2024 that I gave 5 stars and a heart to on Letterboxd. (A heart means it’s to my particular taste). That rule of nine continued with nine film discoveries, nine books that got my brain engaged, and the nine albums I listened to the most on Apple Music.

My favourite films of 2024 (in order of preference)

  1. Civil War
  2. Hit Man
  3. Red Rooms
  4. The Taste of Things
  5. Perfect Days
  6. Conclave
  7. Anora
  8. The Zone of Interest
  9. In a Violent Nature

My favourite film discoveries (in order of preference)

  1. Showing Up (2023)
  2. Monolith (2023)
  3. Gothic (1986)
  4. Results (2015)
  5. The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
  6. Enys Men (2022)
  7. Death Race 2000 (1975)
  8. Old Henry (2021)
  9. Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Books that pulled me in (in order of reading)

  • Assembly, Natasha Brown (2021)
  • All Fours, Miranda July (2024)
  • A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark (1988)
  • Rare Singles, Benjamin Myers (2024)
  • The Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey (2020)
  • Next to Nature, Art, Penelope Lively (1982)
  • Orbital, Samantha Harvey (2024)
  • Hide and Seek, Dennis Potter (1973)
  • The Music of Chance, Paul Auster (1990)

Albums I listened to most on Apple Music (in order of listens)

  1. Radical Optimism, Dua Lipa
  2. The Past is Still Alive, Hurray for the Riff Raff
  3. Tension I/II, Kylie Minogue
  4. The Ballad of Darren, Blur
  5. Harry’s House, Harry Styles
  6. Dear Happy, Gabrielle Aplin
  7. Snow, Angus & Julia Stone
  8. The Visitors, ABBA
  9. Toxicity, System of a Down