Best of 2011
Since I despise New Year’s Eve parties, I tend to spend the hours leading up to midnight remembering what I did and didn’t like about the previous 365 days. Here’s a short list of what I fancied in books, music, and films:
Best contemporary fiction: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Best old/classic fiction: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Best contemporary non-fiction: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Best biography: Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Leo Damrosch
Best academic book: The Autonomy of Morality by Charles Larmore
Best book on music: Listen to This by Alex Ross
Best periodical: London Review of Books
Best music album: Miaad II by Fereydoun Shahbazian
Best film: A Separation by Asghar Farhadi
Best series: Sherlock (BBC)
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Best moment: finding out that I will be a father… to a little girl.
