Reading List: December

Non-Fiction: 

Heather Havrilesky: What If This Were Enough?
Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety.

Fiction: 

Olivia Laing: Crudo.
Courtney Summers: Sadie.
Sarah Pinborough: Cross Her Heart.
Claire Messud: The Burning Girl.
Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
J.C. Lillis: A&B.
Amber Smith: The Last to Let Go.
Amy Rose Capetta: Echo After Echo.
Tana French: The Witch Elm.
Gillian Flynn: Dark Places.
Lisa Jewell: When She Was Gone.
Vanessa Hua: A River of Stars.
Sigrid Nunez: A Friend.
Joyce Robin Brown: George Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit.

Films: 

Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg).
A Simple Favour (2018, Paul Feig).

Shows: 

Nikita, Season Two.
Runaways, Season Two.

Reading List: November

Fiction: 

Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects. 
Hsu-Ming Teo: Behind the Moon.
Hsu-Ming Teo: Love and Vertigo.
Sally Rooney: Normal People. 
Lauren Karcz: The Gallery of Unfinished Girls.
Jessica Verdi: The Summer I Wasn't Me.
Dana Mele: People Like Us.
Cristina Moracho: A Good Idea.
Jane B. Mason: Without Annette.
Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

Films:

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018, Desiree Akhavan).
Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher).

Shows: 

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Season One.

Reading List: September

Non-Fiction: 

Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism. 
Hannah Arendt: Thinking Without A Banister.

Fiction: 

Lynne Tillman: Motion Sickness.
Clarice Lispector: Near to the Wild Heart.
Sharlene Teo: Ponti.
R.O. Kwon: The Incendiaries.
Lillian Li: Number One Chinese Restaurant.
Amy Spalding: The Summer of Jordi Perez.
Hilary Zaid: Paper Is White.

Films: 

Ocean's 8 (2018, Gary Ross). 
Crazy Rich Asians (2018, Jon M. Chu).
Marrowbone (2017, Sergio G. Sanchez).
Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone).
Hearts Beat Loud (2018, Brett Haley).
Ghostbusters (2016, Paul Feig).

Shows:

High Maintenance, Season Two.
Atypical, Season Two.

Reading List: August.

Fiction: 

Lara Elena Donnelly: Armistice.

Kirstin Chen: Bury What We Cannot Take.

Meg Wolitzer: The Ten-Year Nap.
Courtney S. Stevens: Dress Codes For Small Towns.
Nina Lacour: We Are Okay.
Emily O'Beirne: Future Leaders of Nowhere.
Emily O'Beirne: All the Ways to Here.
Kelly J. Ford: Cottonmouths.

Films: 

Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed).
Captain America: Civil War (2016, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo).
Avengers: Infinity War (2018, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo).
Ocean's 8 (2018, Gary Ross).

Shows: 

High Maintenance, Season 1.

Reading List: July.

Fiction: 

Fiona Shaw: Tell it to the Bees.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: Harmless Like You. 
Rachel Cusk: Outline.
Kelly Quindlen: Her Name in the Sky.
Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen.
Alex White: Every Mountain Made Low.
Jeff VanderMeer: Veniss Underground.
Lara Elena Donnelly: Amberlough. 
Megan Abbott: Give Me Your Hand.
Meg Wolitzer: Surrender, Dorothy.

Films: 

Novitiate (2017, Maggie Betts).
Sangailes vasara (2015, Alante Kavaite).
Blockers (2018, Kay Cannon).
MTV Docs: Transformation (2016).

Shows: 

Superorganism live @ Metro Theatre.
Camp Cope live @ the Sydney Opera House.

Reading List: June.

Non-Fiction: 

Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty.

Fiction: 

Nicole Griffith: So Lucky.
James S.A. Corey: Abaddon's Gate.
James S.A. Corey: Cibola Burn.
James S.A. Corey: Nemesis Game.
James S.A. Corey: Babylon's Ashes.
James S.A. Corey: Persepolis Rising.
Tao Lin: Taipei.
Kirsten Chen: Soy Sauce for Beginners.
Becky Albertalli: Leah on the Offbeat.

Films: 

Hannah Gadsby's Nanette (2018.
Love, Simon (2018, Greg Berlanti).

Shows: 

Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Fucking Adelaide, Season 1.
Queer Eye, Season 1, 2.
The Tunnel, Season 3.
Bron/Broen, Season 3.

Reading List: May.

Non-Fiction: 

Michelle Tea: Against Memoir.
Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls.
Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts.

Fiction: 

M-E Girard: Girl Mans Up.
Tana French: The Trespasser. 
Melissa Scott: Trouble and Her Friends.
Melissa Scott: Shadow Man. 

Films: 

Black Panther (2018, Ryan Coogler).
Disobedience (2017, Sebasti�n Lelio).
Duck Butter (2018, Miguel Arteta).

Shows: 

Bad Banks, Season 1. 
The Americans, Season 5, Season 6.

Reading List: April

Non-Fiction: 

Deborah Nelson: Tough Enough. Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil.

Fiction: 

Anchee Min: Red Azalea.
Anchee Min: Pearl of China.
Daniel Ortberg: The Merry Spinster. 
Margaret Killjoy: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion.
Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion.
Terese Marie Mailhot: Heart Berries.
Ann Leckie: Provenance.
William Gibson: The Peripheral.

Films: 

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, Rian Johnson).
Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland).
The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo del Toro).
Kedi (2016, Ceyda Torun).
Wired. Holy Land: Startup Nations. (2017).
Janelle Mon�e - Dirty Computer (2018)

Shows: 

Jessica Jones, Season Two.
The Good Place, Season One, Two.
Jane the Virgin, Season Four.
Homecoming Queens, Season One.

Reading List: March.

Non-Fiction: 

Amy Fusselman: Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die.

Fiction: 

Min Jin Lee: Pachinko.
Kim Fu: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice.
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Sword.
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy.

Films: 

Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele).

Atomic Blonde (2017, David Leitch).
Battle of the Sexes (2017, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris).
Paddington 2 (2017, Paul King).

Reading List: February

Non-Fiction: 

Ron Chernow: Grant.
Mary Gaitskill: Somebody With A Little Hammer. 

Fiction: 

Samira Ahmed: Love, Hate and Other Filters. 
Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give.
Kim Fu: For Today I Am A Boy.
Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories.

Films: 

Golden Exits (2018, Alex Ross Perry).
Below Her Mouth (2017, April Mullen).
Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve).

Shows: 

One Day at a Time, Season 1, 2.
The Leftovers, Season 3. 
Hard Sun, Season 1.
Everything Sucks!, Season 1.

Reading List: January.

Fiction: 

Naomi Alderman: Disobedience. 
Lidia Yuknavitch: The Book of Joan. 
Ren�e Watson: This Side of Home. 
Elif Batuman: The Idiot.
Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas.
R.E. Stearns: Barbary Station.
Sarah Perry: The Essex Serpent.
Danez Smith: Don't Call Us Dead.
Eve L. Ewing: Electric Arches.

Films: 

Life is Strange: Before the Storm Walkthrough.
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (WIRED, 2016).
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017, Angela Robinson).
I, Tonya (2017, Craig Gillespie).
Ladybird (2017, Greta Gerwig. 

Shows: 

Black Mirror, Season Four.
The Leftovers, Season One, Two.

Reading List: December.

Non-Fiction: 

Malcolm Harris: Kids These Days. Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. 
Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War. An Oral History of Women in World War II.

Fiction: 

Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death. 
Jeff VanderMeer: Borne.
Sally Rooney: Conversations with Friends. 
Qiu Miaojin: Notes of a Crocodile. 
Anne Garr�ta: Sphinx.
James S.A. Corey: Persepolis Rising.

Films: 

Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone).
Thelma (2017, Joachim Trier).
Baka Bukas (2016, Samantha Lee).
Mudbound (2017, Dee Rees).
Columbus (2017, Kogonada).
Thor: Ragnarok (2017, Taika Waititi).
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017, Jon Watts).

Shows: 

Riverdale, Season One. 
Search Party, Season Two 
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season One.

Other: 

Feist (live @ Forum Melbourne).
Mitski (live @ Howler).

Reading List: November.

Fiction: 

Naomi Alderman: The Power. 
Naomi Alderman: The Lessons.
Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties. 
Jenny Zhang: Sour Heart. 
Emily Skrutskie: The Abyss Surrounds Us. 
Emily Skrutskie: The Edge of the Abyss.
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl. 

Films: 

The Carmilla Movie (2017, Spencer Maybee).

Shows: 

American Vandal, Season One.
Stranger Things, Season Two.
Alias Grace, Season One.
Godless, Season One.
Ken Burns' The Vietnam War. 

Reading List: October.

Non-Fiction: 

Rebecca Solnit: The Mother of All Questions.

Fiction: 

Megan Abbott: The End of Everything.
Megan Abbott: You Will Know Me.
Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation. 
Jeff VanderMeer: Authority. 
Jeff VanderMeer: Acceptance.
Annalee Newitz: Autonomous.
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Water Knife.
Rachel Cusk: Transit.
Celeste Ng: Little Fires Everywhere. 
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose.

Films: 

Raw (2017, Julia Ducournau).
Colossal (2016, Nacho Vigalondo).
Paint it Black (2016, Amber Tamblyn).

Shows: 

Transparent, Season Four.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season Five.
Mindhunter, Season One.

Other: 

The Dark Inn (written and directed by Kuro Tanino, at Her Majesty's Theatre).
Music in Anticlockwise (at Nexus Arts).
Rabbits (written by Emily Steel, at Plant 1, Bowden).

Reading List: September

Fiction:

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West. 
N.K. Jemisin: The Inheritance Trilogy.
C.B. Lee: Not Your Sidekick.

Films: 

Okja (2017, Joon-ho Bong).
Christine (2016, Antonio Campos).
Kingsman. The Secret Service (2014, Matthew Vaughn).

Shows: 

The Defenders, Season One.
The Good Fight, Season One.
One Mississippi, Season One and Two.

Reading List: August.

Non-Fiction: 

Ytasha Womack: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture.

Fiction: 

Yiyun Li: The Vagrants. 
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Refugees.
N.K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky.
Michelle Tea: Black Wave.

Shows: 

Top of the Lake, Season 2.
Game of Thrones, Season 5 and 6.

Reading List: July.

Non-Fiction: 

Maggie Nelson: The Red Parts. 

Fiction: 

William Gibson: Spook Country.
William Gibson: Zero History.

Films: 

Logan (2017, James Mangold).
Wonder Woman (2017, Patty Jenkins).

Shows: 

Gypsy, Season 1.
Ronny Chieng International Student, Season 1.
The Family Law, Season 2.
Carmilla, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3.
Swerve, Season 1. 
Couple-ish, Season 1. 

Reading List: June.

Non-Fiction: 

Jessa Crispin: Why I'm Not A Feminist.
Shulamith Firestone: The Dialectics of Sex.
Roxane Gay: Hunger.

Fiction: 

Lynne Tillman: Someday This Will Be Funny.
Emily Ruskovich: Idaho.
Emily Fridlund: A History of Wolves.
Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn.

Films: 

I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Raoul Peck).
Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele).
Power Rangers (2017, Dean Israelite).

Reading List: May.

Non-Fiction: 

Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?.

Fiction: 

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale. 
Ellis Avery: The Last Nude.
Lidia Yuknavitch: Dora. A Headcase.
Lidia Yuknavitch: The Small Backs of Children. 
Lynne Tillman: Haunted Houses. 
Roxane Gay: Difficult Women. 

Shows: 

Legion, Season 1. 
Brown Girls, Season 1. 
Master of None, Season 2.
Sense8, Season 2. 

Reading List: April.

Non-Fiction: 

Olivia Laing: To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface.
Janet Malcolm: Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers.

Fiction: 

John Darnielle: Universal Harvester.
Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit.
Tamai Kobayashi: Prairie Ostrich. 

Films: 

Mulan (1998, Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook).
Lovesong (2016, So Yong Kim).
Personal Shopper (2016, Olivier Assayas).

Other:

The Mountain Goats (live at the Edinburgh Castle).