What 2016 lacked in normalcy, it definitely made up for in good music. These are our top album picks for 2016.

Do you ever see themes in your life? Things that just keep coming up over and over again? For me, it was Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic. For a month, it seemed like whenever I explained to people how I started Car Window Poetry, their next question would always be, "Have you ever read Big Magic?"

All American Boys is a young adult novel centered around two high school classmates, Rashad Butler, a black male, and Quinn Collins, a white male, whose lives are changed forever when Rashad is brutally beaten by a white cop who happens to be Quinn's close family friend.

When talking to people about Car Window Poetry, I often get asked, "What's next for the project?" I typically say I don't know specifically what's next, but I do have a direction I want to go in and I compare that direction to TOMS' business model. So when I was walking by the free table at work and found that someone had left on it Start Something That Matters by the founder of TOMS Blake Mycoskie, I picked it up immediately and began reading it that night.

I'll be honest... I've always been a little skeptical of Lady Gaga as a musical artist. But, at the recommendation of a few friends, I decided to listen to her newest album Joanne and absolutely loved it.