2025 - Favourite Media

I like to make these recaps for media I have enjoyed throughout the year, because it kinda gives me perspective on how long the year really was. With books that I can barely remember reading at the start of the year, and shows and movies I could not tell you the plot of even if my life depended on it.

It does, however, remind me of the number and quality of the things I chose to spend my time consuming, and how much better my time could have been spent reading or watching things I actually enjoyed, rather than on worthless avenues like social media feeds.

Anyways, enough yapping.

A lot of these aren’t actually new (especially in the music section); I simply found myself enjoying and appreciating them a bit more this year.

Music

• BRAT (album) - Charli xcx
• To Pimp A Butterfly (album) - Kendrick Lamar
• I Got Heaven (album) - Mannequin Pussy
• Submarine (album) - The Marias
• SMILE! :D (album) - Porter Robinson
• Z (album) - SZA
• IGOR (album) - Tyler, The Creator
• The Lost Boy (album) - Cordae
• Something About You (song) - Eyedress, Dent May
• Show Me Love (song) - Alicia Keys, Miguel

Movies

• Godzilla Minus One (2023)
• Challengers (2024)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• The Substance (2024)
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)

Shows

• Star Wars: Andor (2022-2025)
• Pluribus (2025-)
• Generation Kill (2008)
• Severance (2022-)

Books

• The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1982)
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Márquez (1967)
• Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (1938)
• The Once and Future King - T.H. White (1958)

Of course, I highly recommend that you check out any of these and see if you like them. You might just gain a new favourite from this post. Have a great 2026!