Somehow we are nearing the end of 2023. And with that, comes a barrage of BEST OF lists from anyone and everyone…including me!

Now, picking favourites can be incredibly hard, especially when you’re as indecisive as me. So I gave myself some criteria to work with and that was that anything on this list had to have come out this year. And given how far behind I am on a bunch of things, that narrowed a lot of this list down. And I need to stress that these aren’t the Academy Awards of Stephanie. This is like, the stuff that I deeply enjoyed this year and helped me fully escape from the horrible reality of the world for a while (not to be too dramatic). So let’s dive in, starting with movies:

Movies:

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Fast X
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Barbie
• Polite Society
• Hundreds of Beavers
• The Deepest Breath

TV:

• Poker Face Season 1
• The Last of Us Season 1
• What We Do in the Shadows Season 5
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Daisy Jones and the Six
• Jury Duty Season 1
• Succession Season 4
• His Dark Materials Season 3

Books:

• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
• A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
• Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
• Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Graphic Novels & Comics:

• A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
• Roaming by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
• The Moth Keeper by K. O’Neill

And that’s my lists for 2023. Again, these were just the things that stood out to me and not necessarily the best of the best. Keep in mind that I also…did not watch, read, or get around to a lot of new things this year, so take my list with a grain of salt.

What were some of your faves? Reply in the comments and tell me what to check out over the holiday break!