Everybody does it, and so do I. Here are my two lists from the year that passed and I’m gonna do music and books. The songs that had high rotation on my playlist during 2011 and the most interesting books I’ve read.

The Songs of 2011 (in no particular order):

1. A$AP Rocky – Wassup
2. Om Unit vs. Kromestar – Solar cycle
3. Lord Huron – She lit a fire
4. The Prjcts – East side wasteland
5. Bon Iver – Holocene
6. Common – Celebrate
7. Chris Watson – El divisadero (The signal man’s mix)
8. Someone still loves you Boris Jeltsin – Yellow missing signs
9. Nils Frahm – More
10. The Seldon Plan – Fractionation

and my read Books of 2011 (not necessarily published during 2011):

1. Brian Greene – The hidden reality
2. Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway – Merchants of doubt
3. Michelle Paver – Dark matters
4. James Howard Kunstler – The long emergency
5. Robert Neuwirth – Stealth of nations
6. Chris Malloy & Yvon Chouinard – 180° South: Conquerors of the useless
7. William Gibson – Spook country
8. Alan Weisman – The world without us
9. Jason Zinoman – Shock value
10. Tim Butcher – Blood river

How are you gonna top that 2012?