Top 10 of 2010

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2010

(Wow! What a year for music! It was very hard to narrow down this list.)

  1. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
  2. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
  3. Winter of Mixed Drinks - Frightened Rabbit
  4. Go - Jonsi
  5. Born Again - Newsboys
  6. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
  7. Contra - Vampire Weekend
  8. All Day - Girl Talk
  9. Happiness - Hurts

Honorable Mentions: The Way Off - The Books, Disappearing World - Fair, Of Men and Angels - The Rocket Summer, Volume II - She & Him, LOVE - Angels and Airways, All Delighted People EP - Sufjan Stevens, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place - Anberlin, Write About Love - Belle & Sebastian, Brothers - The Black Keys, The Medicine - John Mark McMillan

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2010
  1. The Social Network
  2. Toy Story 3
  3. Inception
  4. Exit Through the Giftshop
  5. Crazy Heart
  6. Shutter Island
  7. Sherlock Holmes
  8. The Art of the Steal
  9. The Switch
  10. Robin Hood

Honorable Mentions: Alice in Wonderland, Date Night

TOP 10 BOOKS READ IN 2010

(I don’t read enough new books each year, so these are my favorite books I read in 2010 as opposed to books that released in 2010.)

  1. Lust for Life - Irving Stone
  2. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  3. Proust Was A Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
  4. Conversations with Woody Allen - Eric Lax
  5. The Sabbath - Abraham Joshua Heshel
  6. Linchpin - Seth Godin
  7. The Anthologist - Nicholson Baker
  8. How (Not) To Speak of God - Peter Rollins
  9. Art & Physics - Leonard Shlain
  10. Studio Culture - Adrian Shaughnessy

Honorable Mentions: Look Both Ways - Debbie Millman, What The Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell, Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut, The Meaning of Jesus - Marcus Borg & N.T. Wright