The list

I feel like I consumed more material this year than any prior, but that my list of favorites includes fewer hidden gems or wildcards compared to more mainstream roundups. That’s something I promise to work on in 2024.

In the meantime, here goes:

Pages:

Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead

Rim to River, by Tom Zoellner — essential reading for any Arizonan

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson, by Jeff Pearlman

If I Survive You, by Jonathan Escoffery

Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann

Small Screen:

Reservation Dogs — still my favorite, although I’d rank this season behind the first two

The Bear — can’t say enough about “Forks”

The Diplomat

Last of Us

Hijack

Ted Lasso, “Sunflowers” episode

Big Screen:

The Holdovers

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon — biased, but feel as if Lily Gladstone was meant for this moment

BlackBerry

The League (the documentary, not the FX show)

Haulout

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse