Amidst the dumpster fire that was 2020, I consumed 64 books, 48 TV programs, 63 movies and many podcasts. These were my favorites:
(Note: Not all were released during the past 365 days.)
1. 
If It Bleeds by Stephen King
2. “Fangs” by Sarah Andersen
3. “Book Love” by Debbie Tung
4. “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern
5. “Dead Things” by Stephen Blackmoore
6. “Broken Souls” by Stephen Blackmoore
7. “The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)” by Terri-Lynne DeFino
8. “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
9. “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by T.J. Klune
10. “One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days” by Giles Paley-Phillips
(Honorable mentions: “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” by Fannie Flagg, “Happily Ever After & Everything In Between” by Debbie Tung, “Before the Fall” by Noah Hawley, “The Chain” by Adrian McKinty and “Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre” by Max Brooks.)
1. 
“52 Loaves: One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust” by William Alexander
2. “Spectacles” by Sue Perkins
3. “One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America” by Gene Weingarten
4. “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bill Bryson
5. “Chase Darkness With Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders” by Billy Jensen
6. “The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden” by William Alexander
7. “Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me and Nearly Broke My Heart” by William Alexander
8. “Container Gardening Month by Month: A Monthly Listing of Tips and Ideas for Creating a Professional Container Garden” by Gloria Daniels
9. “My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir” by Jason B. Rosenthal
10. “The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir” by Ellie Mathews
(Honorable mentions: “Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving” by Mo Rocca, “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death” by Caitlin Doughty, “101 Organic Gardening Hacks” by Shawna Coronado, “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie” by Christopher Ingraham and “The World According to Tom Hanks: The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America’s Most Decent Guy” by Gavin Edwards.)
Overall reading ratio: I read 18,979 pages — 57% fiction, 43% nonfiction; 48% male authors, 52% female authors.
1. 
Escape to the Country
2. Gardener’s World
3. Love Your Garden
4. The Great British Baking Show
5. Somebody Feed Phil
6. Travelers
7. Evil
8. Chef’s Table: BBQ
9. Why Women Kill
10. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
(Honorable mentions: 9-1-1, Supernatural, Diagnosis, The Mandalorian, Lenox Hill, America’s Test Kitchen, Nadiya’s Time to Eat, Grand Designs, Flashpoint, The Resident, 9-1-1 Lonestar and Barry.)
1. 
The Booksellers
2. If Anything Happens I Love You
3. Dear Santa
4. The Report
5. 1917
6. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
7. Bushwick
8. Betty White: First Lady of Television
9. The Quiet Place
10. Kedi
(Honorable mentions: The Old Guard, Enola Holmes, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Marriage Story, Toy Story 4, Christopher Robin, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story and Onward.)
1. 
Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi
2. Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me
3. Small Town Dicks
4. Against the Rules
5. Mobituaries
6. Christmas Past
7. 99% Invisible
8. Clear+Vivid With Alan Alda
9. The Anthropocene Reviewed
10. David Tennant Does A Podcast With…
and
Sue Perkins: An Hour or So With… (tie)
(Honorable mentions: Radiolab, Criminal, Death Sex & Money, Sidedoor, Fresh Air, Dear Hank & John, Nocturne, Awards Chatter, The Christmas Stocking and The Daily.)
