Here are 5 of my top tens of the decade (music, games, manga, nonfiction, and fiction), with a brief explanation of what, why, and how.

I like making lists because it’s a good opportunity for me to reflect on the things that I like, why I like them, and the impact they’ve had on me. Thinking about them again is in many ways enjoying them again, and thinking about them relative to each other and from a more distant perspective is enjoying them and understanding them in new ways.

A few quick notes: The list is sorted in rough chronological order, which ended up working out nicely because for a few of these, they are interconnected & each thing builds on the next. I didn’t really respect things like release date; I just picked stuff I personally enjoyed in this decade. My biggest criteria for why something makes it on the list is if it gave me better eyes, i.e. if after consuming it, I ended up with a greater or different appreciation of something.

Artists:

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• Frank Ocean
• Kanye West
• Kendrick Lamar
• Migos
• Bolbbalgan4
• Drake
• Young Thug
• Twice
• Carly Rae Jepsen
• Mitski

Some honorable mentions: DaBaby, Polo G, Shura, Snail Mail, Japanese Breakfast, Higher Brothers, Bad Bunny

Games:

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• Bioshock
• Skyrim
• World of Warcraft
• One Night
• Fallout 4
• Vermintide 2
• Monster Hunter World
• Teamfight Tactics
• Stardew Valley
• League of Legends

Manga:

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• One Piece - Eiichiro Oda
• Naruto - Masashi Kishimoto
• Full Metal Alchemist - Hiromu Arakawa
• Eyeshield 21 - Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata
• Kekkaishi - Yellow Tanabe
• Oyasumi Punpun - Inio Asano
• Monster - Naoki Urasawa
• Vinland Saga - Makoto Yukimura
• Jujutsu Kaisen - Gegu Akatami
• Silver Spoon - Hiromu Arakawa

HM: Space Brothers, Kingdom, Tower of God, Haikyuu, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Grand Blue, Hunter x Hunter, Mushishi, Zatch Bell, 20th Century Boys

Nonfiction:

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• Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
• Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - David Foster Wallace
• The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979 Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed - Shea Serrano
• Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America - Mark Padoongpatt
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Davis
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion - Jia Tolentino
• A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn

Fiction:

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• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• The Heroes of Olympus series - Rick Riordan
• Beartown - Fredrik Backman
• The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
• Laughable Loves - Milan Kundera
• A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashion
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace