All the Books, Movies and Podcasts You’ll Be Obsessed With in 2019
In our Winter issue, FASHION editors rounded up the 100 people, products and experiences we predict will blow up in 2019. It’s our inaugural Hot 100 Fuse List. From the workouts you’ll be doing, to the new designers and destinations you’ll see on your feed, this is your guide to being in the know next year. In 12 months, when everyone and their blog is publishing their year’s best lists, these are the titles we think you’re going to see. But you’ll hear a lot about them before that, too.
Watch
The momentum of films with badass female leads thankfully continues (although, ahem, it could always go faster). Here are a few that will certainly be big next year.
Photography courtesy of Marvel Studios
6: Captain Marvel
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first female-led film. Brie Larson (sorry, Scarjo) is the titular captain out to save the day (Spoiler alert: She’s the one whom Nick Fury paged at the end of the last Avengers.)
Read
All right, so, it’s not like it’s a new idea, but if there is a theme for the books that you’ll burn through in 2019, it might just be family. Fortunately, that can mean lots of things.
10: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Whether you read Thomas’s first blockbuster novel, The Hate U Give, or just saw the film (or even if you haven’t done either), you’ll definitely love this story of an aspiring rapper trying to win her first battle—and maybe live up to her late father’s hip-hop legacy.
Listen
Sometimes it seems like all entertainment—and infotainment, for that matter—should be consumed exclusively in podcast form. As the medium matures, in quality and quantity, finding the best shows gets harder and harder. Here is your daily commute’s new favourite soundtrack.
14: Caliphate
The New York Times goes deep on ISIS. Smart, scary and, like Serial, as addictive as hell.
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