Last year's ...in no particular order...[some links go to Amazon]
Best Books Read in 2004
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson
Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss
Used and Rare by Laurence and Nancy Goldstone
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith
The Town in Bloom by Dodie Smith
Honorable Mention
Deprivers by Steven-Elliott Altman
She Went All the Way by Meggin Cabot
Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Short Stories
"Chance" by Connie Willis (from Year's Best Science Fiction 4th Edition)
"Surviving" by Judith Moffatt (from Year's Best Science Fiction 4th Edition)
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene (from 21 Stories)
"Lawns" by Mona Simpson (from Love Stories for the Rest of Us)
Best Movies Seen in 2004
Before SunsetGinger Snaps Honorable Mention
You Can't Take It With YouThe Thin ManSupersize MeI Capture the CastleLove's Labour's LostMay Best TV
Lost