† = reread

• Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft ★★★½
• Home - Marilynne Robinson ★★★★
• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green ★★★
• Time's Arrow - Martin Amis ★★★★
• Dark Matter - Michelle Paver ★★★★½
• Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay ★★★
• This is How You Lose Her - Junot Díaz ★★★★½
• Tinkers - Paul Harding ★★★½
• Hotel World - Ali Smith ★★★★
• The Elephant's Journey - Jose Saramago ★★★
• Brenton Brown - Alex Wheatle ★★
• The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes ★★★★½
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy † ★★★★★
• Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri ★★
• Anita and Me - Meera Syal ★★★★
• Tamarind Woman - Anita Rau Badami ★★½
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn ★★★★
• The Testament of Mary - Colm Tóibín ★★★★

• Miranda - season two ★★★★
• The Outs - webseries ★★½
• Adventure Time - season one
• Happy Endings - season three
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - webseries ★★★
• New Girl - season two ★★★½
• The Americans - season one
• My Mad Fat Diary - season one ★★★★★
• The Mindy Project - season one ★★★★
• Veep - season two ★★★★
• Orphan Black - season one ★★★★★
• Twisted - season one
• Luther - season three ★★★★
• Orange Is the New Black - season one ★★★★
• The Fosters - season one ★★★½
• Breaking Bad - season five

• David Hare, The Judas Kiss, Duke of York's Theatre (16/01) ★★★½
• Jennifer Jajeh, I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You, Rich Mix (17/01) ★★★★★
• Amelia Bullmore, Di and Viv and Rose, Hampstead Theatre (22/01) ★★★★
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Trafalgar Studios (20/02) ★★★★
• Luke Barnes, Bottleneck, Soho Theatre (26/02) ★★★½
• Graham Greene, The Living Room, Jermyn Street Theatre (05/03) ★★★
• John Logan, Peter and Alice, Noel Coward Theatre (29/03) ★★★★
• Bruce Norris, The Low Road, Royal Court Theatre (02/04) ★★★
• Matt Stone/Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre (17/04) ★★★½
• Brad Birch, Every Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall, Soho Theatre (29/05) ★★★★
• Patrice Etienne, Venus/Mars, Old Red Lion Theatre (08/06) ★★★½
• Francesca Martinez, What the Fuck is Normal?, Soho Theatre (18/06) ★★★★

† = in cinema

• Pitch Perfect ★★★
• Silver Linings Playbook ★★★½
• The First Time ★½
• Geek Charming ★★★★
• Foxes ★★★½
• Capturing the Friedmans ★★★★★
• The Imposter ★★★★
• Hoop Dreams ★★★★★
• The Thin Blue Line ★★★★★
• Man on Wire ★★★
• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father ★★★★★
• Spellbound ★★★★
• Grizzly Man ★★★★½
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ★★★½
• Touching the Void ★★★
• †Man of Steel ★★★
• Into the Abyss ★★★★
• †Before Midnight ★★★★