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Perry and David wind up their discussion of the best books they read in 2020 and roll on to talking about their best movies and television seen during the year.
David's Top 10 books of 2020 (04:51)
Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
Normal People by Sally Rooney
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Truth by Peter Temple
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Perry's Top 10 books of 2020 (06:04)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jnr
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Tango Briefing by Adam Hall
The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John

David's Top films of 2020 (04:18)
Brazil
12 Monkeys
Solaris (dir. Tarkovsky)
Yesterday
Time Bandits

Perry's Top films of 2020 (06:33)
Stalker
The Old Guard
Yesterday
Sometimes Always Never
Brazil

David's Top TV of 2020 (06:08)
Tales from the Loop (Mini-series)
Upright (Mini-series)
His Dark Materials (Season 1)
The Expanse (Season 4)
For All Mankind (Season 1)

Perry's Top TV of 2020 (27:32)
Food (03:00)
Food Safari Fire
Rick Stein’s Secret France
Chef’s Table : BBQ

Crime (07:39)
Criminal : UK S01 and S02
Trapped S01 and S02
The Alienist S01
Des
Giri/Haji

Horror (01:15)
The Outsider

Science Fiction (03:35)
The Expanse S04
The Umbrella Academy S02
For All Mankind S01
The Umbrella Academy S01

Other (04:55)
The Queen’s Gambit
The Test
Freeman

Best 5 of the Year (05:51)
The Queen’s Gambit
The Expanse S04
Criminal : UK S01 and S02
The Test
Trapped S01 and S02

Wind-up (02:08)
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