2021 Reading

• Iain Banks: Transition (****)
• Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential (****)
• Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (*****)
• Alan Dean Foster: Alien (***)
  
• Alan Dean Foster: Aliens (****)
  
• Alan Dean Foster: Alien 3 (****)
  
• Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel (****)
  
• Mark Frost: The Secret History of Twin Peaks (second reading; ***)
  
• Mark Frost: The Final Dossier (second reading; ****)
• H.R. Giger: Giger (****)
  
• Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (third reading; *****)
• Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (****)
• Frank Herbert: Dune (second reading; ****)
• Rick Moody: The Ice Storm (****)
• Haruki Murakami: First Person Singular (***)
  
• Stephen Morris: Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist (****)
• Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (***)
• Adam Steiner: Into the Never: NIN and the Creation of The Downward Spiral (***)  
  
• Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (***)
• Various: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (***)
• Various: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View (****)
• Stefan Zweig: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig (****)
• Stefan Zweig: The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig (***).

2021 in Television

• 01. Fargo, Season 4
• 02. Only Murders in the Building, Season 1
• 03. Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
• 04. Squid Game, Season 1
  
• 05. Line of Duty, Series 6
• 06. Inside No. 9, Series 6
• 07. Time
• 08. The Bambers: Murder at the Farm
• 09. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
• 10. Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.

2021 in Film

• 01. Saint Maud
• 02. The Power of the Dog
• 03. Sound of Metal
  
• 04. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
• 05. Dune
• 06. Mortal Kombat
• 07. Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac
• 08. The Card Counter
• 09. The Dig
• 10. Worth.

 2021 films I have yet to see:

• Censor.
• The Father.
• The Velvet Underground.
• The French Dispatch.
• Drive My Car. 
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

2021 in Music

• 01. Pan Daijing: Jade 
• 02. Jon Hopkins: Music for Psychedelic Therapy 
• 03. Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England 
• 04. Danny Elfman: Big Mess 
• 05. A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities 
• 06. The Grid & Robert Fripp: Leviathan 
• 07. Ulver: Hexahedron 
• 08. Nala Sinephro: Space 1.8 
• 09. David Bowie: The Width of a Circle 
• 10. MONO: Pilgrimage of the Soul.

Honourable mention: 

• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra: Promises 
• Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux 
• King Crimson: Music is Our Friend (Live in Washington and Albany, 2021) 
• Katia Krow: I've Called Off the Search, I Know Exactly Where You Are 
• Zombi: Liquid Crystal.