Many New Year's resolutions reflect a desire to read more, to see more, to be more connected to thought and culture. I'm fortunate to have friends -- and even some enemies -- who are brilliant, thoughtful, and engaged. Their recommendations are priceless and much of my own education has been the result of conversations with them.
I asked my network for the one "thing" that they are most thankful they experienced this past year. By "thing," I meant something like a book, movie, piece of art, etc.. Here is the list.
BOOKS & READING
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Bo Ray
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 - Arnold R. Hirsch
Casey Anthony
Harvard Business Review - Subscribe
Noel Gordon
Work Rules - Laszlo Bock
Noel Gordon
Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano
Jaime Sanchez
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Lev Novak
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
Logan Cotton
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Alexis Hoffman
Killing the Black Body - Dorothy E. Roberts
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier - Edward Glaeser
We The Animals - Justin Torres
Julius Mitchell
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships - Christopher Ryan
Sam Cohen
One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society - Herbert Marcuse
Neil Whittredge
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Bianca Davila
Workshops of Empire - Eric Bennett
Shanameh - Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal - Aviva Chomsky
Alex Ocampo
Business Etiquette for Dummies - Sue Fox
Derrick Stinson
Dragonfish - Vu Tran
Mickey Desruisseaux
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story - Elaine Brown
Ariel Stevenson
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Ida B. Wells
Jameelah Morris
This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
Ariel Stevenson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Lia Winograd
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and Sociological Imagination - Avery Gordon
Jameelah Morris
Racial Formation in the United States - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Suyu Zhang
Dog Whistle Politics - Ian Haney Lopez
Suyu Zhang
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route - Sadiya Hartman
Jameelah Morris
Why Jihadists Write Poetry - Bernard Haykel
Munir Atalla
Shantaram: A Novel - Gregory David Roberts
Alden Sampson
Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy - Joe Whitworth
Alden Sampson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
Sam Schuster
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East - Riad Sattouf
The Sellout: A Novel - Paul Beatty
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hala Abdulkarim
NPR's list of the best books of 2015
WATCH & LISTEN
The Epic - Kamasi Washington
Harold Moore
High Maintenance
Jaime Sanchez
Victoria
Evan Tarantino
The Less I Know the Better - Tame Impala
Jaime Sanchez
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Punishment Park and the Limits of Gramsican Logic - Frank B. Wilderson III
Jorge Cotte
The Summit
Alexa Petersen
Undefeated
Alexa Petersen
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Alexa Petersen
The Man in the High Castle
Neil Whittredge
Unslut: A Documentary
Vera Papisova
Joywave - Tongues feat. KOPPS
Evan Tarantino
Dareka no Manazashi - Makoto Shinkai
Kyle Wolken
Creed
Mickey Desruisseaux & Jameelah Morris
The Wolfpack
Evan Tarantino
Gotham
Jameelah Morris
Survivor's Remorse
Mickey Desruisseaux
Beasts of No Nation
Ariel Stevenson
Virunga
Lia Winograd
Blackfish
Lia Winograd
Motorcycle Diaries
Suyu Zhang
Fargo (Season 2)
Evan Tarantino
Making a Murderer
Evan Tarantino
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
FITNESS
Strong Lifts
I asked my network for the one "thing" that they are most thankful they experienced this past year. By "thing," I meant something like a book, movie, piece of art, etc.. Here is the list.
BOOKS & READING
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Bo Ray
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 - Arnold R. Hirsch
Casey Anthony
Harvard Business Review - Subscribe
Noel Gordon
Work Rules - Laszlo Bock
Noel Gordon
Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano
Jaime Sanchez
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Lev Novak
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
Logan Cotton
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Alexis Hoffman
Killing the Black Body - Dorothy E. Roberts
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier - Edward Glaeser
We The Animals - Justin Torres
Julius Mitchell
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships - Christopher Ryan
Sam Cohen
One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society - Herbert Marcuse
Neil Whittredge
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Bianca Davila
Workshops of Empire - Eric Bennett
Shanameh - Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal - Aviva Chomsky
Alex Ocampo
Business Etiquette for Dummies - Sue Fox
Derrick Stinson
Dragonfish - Vu Tran
Mickey Desruisseaux
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story - Elaine Brown
Ariel Stevenson
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Ida B. Wells
Jameelah Morris
This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
Ariel Stevenson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Lia Winograd
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and Sociological Imagination - Avery Gordon
Jameelah Morris
Racial Formation in the United States - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Suyu Zhang
Dog Whistle Politics - Ian Haney Lopez
Suyu Zhang
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route - Sadiya Hartman
Jameelah Morris
Why Jihadists Write Poetry - Bernard Haykel
Munir Atalla
Shantaram: A Novel - Gregory David Roberts
Alden Sampson
Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy - Joe Whitworth
Alden Sampson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
Sam Schuster
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East - Riad Sattouf
The Sellout: A Novel - Paul Beatty
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hala Abdulkarim
NPR's list of the best books of 2015
WATCH & LISTEN
The Epic - Kamasi Washington
Harold Moore
High Maintenance
Jaime Sanchez
Victoria
Evan Tarantino
The Less I Know the Better - Tame Impala
Jaime Sanchez
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Punishment Park and the Limits of Gramsican Logic - Frank B. Wilderson III
Jorge Cotte
The Summit
Alexa Petersen
Undefeated
Alexa Petersen
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Alexa Petersen
The Man in the High Castle
Neil Whittredge
Unslut: A Documentary
Vera Papisova
Joywave - Tongues feat. KOPPS
Evan Tarantino
Dareka no Manazashi - Makoto Shinkai
Kyle Wolken
Creed
Mickey Desruisseaux & Jameelah Morris
The Wolfpack
Evan Tarantino
Gotham
Jameelah Morris
Survivor's Remorse
Mickey Desruisseaux
Beasts of No Nation
Ariel Stevenson
Virunga
Lia Winograd
Blackfish
Lia Winograd
Motorcycle Diaries
Suyu Zhang
Fargo (Season 2)
Evan Tarantino
Making a Murderer
Evan Tarantino
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
FITNESS
Strong Lifts