SCRLC 2020 Favorites
The books, tv shows, movies, music, and podcasts that made 2020 somewhat more bearable for the SCRLC staff. We made a Padlet and would love to hear your picks for 2020. Here's to a Happy New Year!
Mary-Carol

Books
Chaldean Oracles trans. by Thomas Taylor
My Own Words (RBG)
Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... by Kaye Boesme
The Truths We Hold by Kamala D. Harris
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns... by Hesiod
The Gallizenae: A Tale of the Ninefold by Jhenah Telyndru
Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Misc.)
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
God Against the Gods by Jonathan Kirsch
The Phantom Poodle of Rainy Pass by Dan Levinson (kids book)

Movies
Frozen II
Irresistible (Jon Stewart)
Smoke Signals (not new, but watched again)
Civil Warriors

TV Shows
Good Omens
The Mandalorian
The Crown
Stephen Colbert
NOVA
Nature
Frontline
Finding Your Roots
Call the Midwife
American Experience
The Worst Witch

Music
PANTHER by Pain of Salvation
Wasteland by Riverside
Love, Fear & the Time Machine by Riverside
I Viaggi di Madeleine by I Viaggi di Madeleine
Through Shaded Woods by Lunatic Soul (Maruisz Duda's work, also of Riverside)
Weltschmerz by Fish
Aura by Io Earth
The Unquiet Sky by Arena
City Burials by Katatonia
Human. :||: Nature. by Nightwish
Love Over Fear by Pendragon
Affinity by Haken
Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield
Incantations by Mike Oldfield
Fear Inoculum by Tool
The Disturbance Fields by Edison's Children
Perpetually Under Idle Grounds by Lazleitt
Pattern-Seeking Animals by Pattern-Seeking Animals
...and so many more (primarily progressive rock)

Podcasts
Walkabout the Galaxy
60-Second Science
Big Ideas (Austrailian)
Democracy Now!
Welcome to Night Vale
Claire

Books
The Mountains Sing by Que Mai Phan Nguyen
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
To my 6-year-old: Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o and How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
To my toddler: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Little Blue Truck

TV Shows: The Queen's Gambit & Unsolved Mysteries (2020)

Music
"Citrus" by Sylo Nozra
The Argument by Fugazi
"Corona" by The Minutemen

Podcasts
How to Save a Planet
Every Little Thing
What You Missed in History Class
Danna

Books
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic by Andrew Cuomo
The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Movies: Onward, Mr. Rogers, Frozen II

TV Shows
Schitt's Creek
The Good Fight
The Resident
Designing Women

Music
What a Long Strange Trip It's Been by The Grateful Dead
Steve Miller Band
Supertramp

Podcasts: Michelle Obama & Brene Brown
Diane

Books
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Cultivating Delight by Diane Ackerman
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Movies
What We Did on Our Holiday
Hayao Miyazaki movies

TV Shows
The Durrells in Corfu
United Shades of America
Schitt's Creek
American Pickers

Music
Donna the Buffalo
Rusted Root
Grateful Dead
Bob Marley

Podcasts
Low Carb MD
Unlocking Us
Michelle Obama
Jessica

Books
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Searcher by Tana French
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne

Movies
Blow the Man Down
Palm Springs
On The Rocks
My Octopus Teacher (+ the parody video My Kreepy Teacher)

TV Shows
Le Bureau
Parks & Rec
High Fidelity
Call My Agent! (Dix Pour Cent)
Killing Eve

Podcasts: Nice White Parents
Molly

Books
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodren
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
The Journey is the Destination: the Journals of Dan Eldon by Dan Eldon
On Writing by Stephen King
Long Quiet Highway by Natalie Goldberg
Wild Geese - Selected Poetry by Mary Oliver

TV Shows
The Detectorists (BBC)
Good Omens (Prime)
Some Good News with John Krasinski (YouTube)
The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Music
When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish
Tous les Matins du Monde soundtrack
Yo-Yo Ma
Baroque oboe concertos ft. Albinoni, Vivaldi, Scarlatti
While My Guitar Gently Weeps George Harrison
Best of You & Everlong Foo Fighters
Like a Stone Audioslave