2022
Top 5 films:
- The Godfather Part II
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Drive My Car
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Memoria
Top 5 fiction books:
- The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
- At Last, Edward St Aubyn
- Sliverview, John le Carré
- Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
- The History Boys, Alan Bennett
Top 5 non-fiction books:
- Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Farewell Kabul, Christina Lamb
- Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein
- Porcelain, Moby
- How Will You Measure Your Life, Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
2021
Top 5 films:
- Dune
- Another Round
- Soul
- Supernova
- Minari
Top 5 fiction books:
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Normal People, Sally Rooney
- Brazzaville Beach, William Boyd
- Mother’s Milk, Edward St Aubyn
Top 5 non-fiction books:
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- Wanting, Luke Burgis
- The Lion and The Unicorn, Richard Aldous
- Madison Avenue Manslaughter, Michael Farmer
- Neither Civil Nor Servant, Peh Shing Hui
2020
Top 5 films:
- Inception
- 1917
- Little Women
- JoJo Rabbit
- Dark Waters
Top 5 fiction books:
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- Bad News, Edward St Aubyn
- Severance, Ling Ma
- Swing Time, Zadie Smith
- Impractical Uses of Cake, Yeoh Jo-Ann
Top 5 non-fiction books:
- Rubicon, Tom Holland
- Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson
- 17a Keong Saik Road, Charmaine Leung
- The Lady and The Monk, Pico Iyer
2019
Top 5 films:
- Parasite
- Cold War
- Free Solo
- Monos
- If Beale Street Could Talk
Top 5 fiction books:
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- The Odyssey, Homer, Emily Wilson
Top 5 non-fiction books:
- Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev
- The World As It Is, Ben Rhodes
- Lady in Waiting, Anne Glenconner
- The Marches, Rory Stewart
- Atomic Habits, James Clear
2018
Top 5 films:
- Phantom Thread
- Lady Bird
- Burning
- Call Me By Your Name
- Widows
Top 5 books:
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
- The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- Tiger Woods, Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
- Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle
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