My Favorites of 2021

Joseph-Albert Kuuire
2 min readDec 24, 2021

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Continuing the theme of end of the year things, I decided to list out my favorite stuff of 2021. Most of these favorites include music, movies and TV shows.

Without much further ado, here are my favorites of 2021:

Top Music Albums

Honestly, I think I’m getting to the stage where I’m struggling to listen to new music. I found myself listening to more “old” music. But there was new music that did catch my ear. Here are my favorite albums this year:

  • James Blake — Friends Who Break Your Heart
  • Lana Del Rey — Blue Banisters
  • Yebba — Dawn
  • Chvrches — Screen Violence
  • Ty/Dvsn — Cheers For The Memories
  • Bo Burnham — Inside

Movies

There were a bunch of movies that I watched in 2021. These are MY standout movies that caught my eye.

  • Zola
  • Old
  • Dune
  • Last Night In Soho
  • Sound Of Metal
  • Black Bear
  • Tick Tick Boom

TV Shows

The following are my stand out TV shows that I watched this year. Most of these shows were picked because I resonated with the characters and the story.

  • Bonding Season 2
  • Final Space Season 3
  • Dave Season 2
  • Master of None Season 3
  • Ted Lasson S2
  • Scenes From A Marriage
  • Arcane
  • Midnight Mass

Lastly, here are all the books that I read in 2021:

  • Contagious: Why Things Catch On — Jonah Berger
  • Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity — Peggy Orenstein
  • Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry — Jason Schreier
  • Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX — Eric Berger
  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need — Bill Gates
  • The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society — Debra Soh
  • Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  • Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made — Jason Schreier
  • Broken (in the best possible way) — Jenny Lawson

Can’t wait to consume more stuff in 2022!

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Joseph-Albert Kuuire

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