Might as well write something here this year! These are personal lists, and may contain any of the following:

• Things that came out in 2025
• Things that I first experienced in 2025
• Things that were general recurring favorites in 2025

Games

I tried Outer Wilds this year, and never felt hooked, but still want to finish it.

1. UFO 50
2. Hades
3. Moonlighter
4. Resident Evil Remaster
5. Mini Metro

Honorable mention: West of Loathing

Books

2025 was a good reading year for me; 2024 ended with some short story collections that helped me get back some momentum.

1. Malagash
2. The Past is Red
3. Tenth of December
4. The Stranger
5. A Sand County Almanac

Honorable mention: The Haar

Movies/TV

I don’t have a good way of keeping track of watched TV or movies, so I’m probably missing a few favorites here.

1. The Rehearsal
2. The Wire
3. Eraserhead
4. The Seventh Seal
5. The Pitt

Honorable mentions: Space Ghost Coast to Coast; Howl’s Flying Castle

Music

This is a rough category this year. I’m about halfway through Rolling Stone’s greatest 500 albums, and I listened to a lot of other music, but didn’t follow a lot of new releases. Hence, these are mostly pieces that hooked me for a longer than a couple of days throughout the year.

1. PPPPPP, the VVVVVV soundtrack
2. Going Down Slowly - Pointer Sisters
3. Little Boxes
4. All My Shades of Blue - Ruen Brothers
5. Lemon Boy - Cavetown

Honorable mention: That System of a Down concert

That happened in 2025?

The order doesn’t really matter here, and these are just fun(?) things that have come to mind. I am specifically only including things from home life; otherwise it’d just be trip-related fun stuff.

1. Started working on a Challad recipe
2. Water aerobics
3. The hood & stove
4. Willow’s backpack walks
5. Woodcarving gnomes

Honorable mention: Butterflies

Top five list categories for next year?

1. Out-of-town restaurants
2. Recipes
3. Crafts
4. Concerts
5. Things watched (youtube channels, specific videos etc.)