FWIW

Favorites encountered/discovered/acquired in 2015, plus a few least favorites:

Books

1. Walter Kirn, Blood Will Out (2014)

2. Langdon Cook, The Mushroom Hunters (2014)

3. Brendan I. Koerner, The Skies Belong To Us (2013)

4. Richard Marcus, American Roulette (2004)

5. Hampton Sides, In The Kingdom of Ice (2014)

6. Kim Gordon, Girl In A Band (2015)

7. Piper Kerman, Orange Is The New Black (2011)

8. Peter Stark, Astoria (2014)

9. David Shields and Caleb Powell, I Think You're Totally Wrong (2014)

10. Maajid Nawaz, Radical (2013)

Least favorite: Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life (2009)

Films

1. Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)

2. The Spectacular Now, James Ponsoldt (2013)

3. Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014)

4. Cowboy Del Amor, Michèle Ohayon (2005)

5. Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy (2014)

6. Little Dieter Needs To Fly, Werner Herzog (1997)

7. Partly Fiction, Sophie Huber (2013)

8. Meru, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (2015)

9. The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle (2015)

10. Life Itself, Steve James (2014)

Least favorite: The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam

Photobooks

1. Chuck Forsman, Western Rider (2003)

2. Gary Briechle, Self-Titled (2012)

3. Ivars Gravlejs, Early Works (2015)

4. Ossian Brown, Haunted Air (2010)

5. Andrew Savulich, The City (2015)

6. Wendy Ewald, Secret Games (2000)

7. Huger Foote, Now Here Then (2015)

8. Alec Soth, Songbook (2015)

9. Amanda Tetrault, Phil And Me (2004)

10. Dennis Hopper, Drugstore Camera (2015)

Least favorite: Kim Kardashian, Selfish (2015)

Albums

1. Shopping, Why Choose (2015)

2. Fugs, Second Album (1966)

3. Maggie Estep, No More Mister Nice Girl (1994)

4. Temptations, Psychedelic Shack (1970)

5 .Various, Punk 45: Burn Rubber City Burn! (2015)

6. Elton and Betty White, Sex Beyond The Door (1988?)

7. Massacre, Killing Time (1981)

8. Leon Redbone, On The Track (1975)

9. Shorty Petterstein, The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (1958)

10. Various, English As a Second Language (Talking Package) (1983)

11. Pops Staples, Don't Love This (2015)

12. Black Merda, Black Merda (1970)

13. Boojwah Kids, Med Beat (1980)

14. Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return To The 36 Chambers (1995)

15. Jayne Cortez And The Firespitters, Maintain Control (1986)

16. Petra Haden Sings, The Who Sell Out (2005)

17. D'Angelo, Black Messiah (2014)

18. Various, 10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces (1975)

19. The Mistakes, The Mistakes (1995)

20. Various, Next Stop Soweto Vol. 4 (2015)

Least favorites: Arca, Mutant (2015) and Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love (2015)