Top tens in 2023
Dec 31, 2023
Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them:
- Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter)
- The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables
- Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills
- Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell
- Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. Carpenter
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
- Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision & Companions, by Michael F. Cusato
- Julian of Norwich: Theologian, by Denys Turner
- Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein
& here are the top 10 new-to-me films I saw in 2023, in the order I saw them:
- Tár (Todd Field)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
- Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Northman (Robert Eggers)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
- Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
- High Life (Claire Denis)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)