As we’re now in 2024, it’s time to share the books and films that kept me entertained last year. This is just a list rather than my views on them, but if you follow the links I provide to Goodreads and Letterboxd, you can find my reviews there.

📖 Books

These are the books I completed in 2023. Some are light and fluffy and others took me months to get through. They are represented in alphabetical order.

1. Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know (Greg Jenner)
2. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Tony Fadell)
3. Captain Carter: Woman Out of Time (Jamie McKelvie)
4. How To Be A Complete and Utter Blunt: Diary of a Reluctant Social Media (James Blunt)
5. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Jacquie McNish)
6. Space: The Human Story (Tim Peake)
7. Superior Iron Man, Vol. 1: Infamous (Tom Taylor)
8. The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Bill Bryson)
9. The Templars: The Secret History Revealed (Barbara Frale)
10. The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously (Rob Manuel)
11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England’s Kings and Queens (David Mitchell)
12. What If? Dark Avengers (Marc Guggenheim)
13. What If? Infinity (Joshua Williamson)

The following were all started but not completed. They are in reverse order of when I started, so the first is the one I started before the year ended…

1. How They Broke Britain (James O’Brien)
2. This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers (Lee Parkinson)
3. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition (Kerry Patterson)
4. Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change (David Ehrlichman)

🎬 Films

And here are all the films I watched – some at the cinema, but many of them at home. They are shown in reverse order of when I watched them, so the first is the last one I watched in 2023…

1. Johnny English Strikes Again
2. Die Hard
3. Scrooged
4. Airplane II: The Sequel
5. Airplane!
6. The Marvels (Cinema)
7. Babylon 5: The Road Home
8. The Batman
9. The Matrix Resurrections
10. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
11. Heart of Stone
12. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
13. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
14. The Flash
15. Free Guy
16. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
17. The Flash
18. Captain Marvel
19. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
20. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
21. Iron Man 2
22. The Suicide Squad
23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Cinema)
24. Godzilla vs. Kong
25. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
26. Tetris
27. Enola Holmes 2
28. Enola Holmes
29. The Gray Man
30. We Have a Ghost
31. Edge of Tomorrow
32. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Cinema)
33. Black Adam
34. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
35. Source Code
36. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
37. Jack Reacher
38. Bullet Train
39. Mission: Impossible

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