There’s no doubt 2020 was a strange, unexpected year in many ways. The combination of pandemic health orders and working from home from mid-March through the end of the year had a positive effect on my media consumption: a 181% increase overall from the previous year. With everything that has been going on, I felt fortunate that I was able to find so many outlets to immerse myself in and be inspired from.

Inspired by the data tracking of filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and his cataloging the movies, TV shows, and books he has consumed, I started tracking what I watched and read throughout the year beginning in 2014. I continued to keep track the following years and now have published lists every year since. These are the results of my media consumption for 2019.

One of my favorite film directors, Steven  Soderbergh, has been cataloging the movies, TV shows, and plays he has watched, along with the books and short stories he has read, over the period of a year and then publishing the list every year since 2009. In 2015, one of my favorite sites, FiveThirtyEight, turned his Seen, Read 2014 list into an eye-catching, informative graph.

Inspired by both the data tracking and resulting visualization, I started tracking what I watched and read throughout the year beginning in 2014. I continued to keep track the following years and now have published lists every year since. The results of my media consumption for 2018 are below.