Year-End Lists

Autostraddle: 6 of the Best Feminist Poetry Books of 2018

• The Carrying
  Ada Limón
• The Möbius Strip Club of Grief
  Bianca Stone
• If They Come for Us
  Fatimah Asghar
• Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
  Diane Seuss
• Bound
  Claire Schwartz
• Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
  Alice Walker

Peter Travers: 20 Best Movies of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
3. Black Panther
   Ryan Coogler
4. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
6. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
7. First Man
   Damien Chazelle
8. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
9. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
10. Green Book
    Peter Farrelly
11. Vice
    Adam McKay
12. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
13. Widows
    Steve McQueen
14. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
15. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
16. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
17. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    Joel & Ethan Coen
19. Bohemian Rhapsody
    Bryan Singer
20. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
    Morgan Neville

David Orr: Best Poetry of 2018, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• Human Hours
  Catherine Barnett
• The Popol Vuh
  Michael Bazzett (translator)
• Years, Months, and Days
  Amanda Jernigan
• Dark Woods
  Richard Sanger
• Wade in the Water
  Tracy K. Smith
• A Memory of the Future
  Elizabeth Spires
• Like
  A.E. Stallings
• Transaction Histories
  Donna Stonecipher
• Blood Labors
  Daniel Tobin
• Hey, Marfa
  Jeffrey Yang

Kristin Iversen: Best Books Of 2018, as published by Nylon

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• An American Marriage
  Tayari Jones
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• That Was Something
  Dan Callahan
• The Golden State
  Lydia Kiesling
• Friday Black
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• A Terrible Country
  Keith Gessen
• Census
  Jesse Ball
• If You Leave Me
  Crystal Hana Kim
• Eden
  Andrea Kleine
• Inappropriation
  Lexi Freiman
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon

Billboard: 50 Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
2. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
3. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
4. Daytona
   Pusha T
5. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
6. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
   Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
7. ASTROWORLD
   Travis Scott
8. Camila
   Camila Cabello
9. Vibras
   J Balvin
10. Everything Is Love
    The Carters
11. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
12. Honey
    Robyn
13. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
14. Swimming
    Mac Miller
15. Scorpion
    Drake
16. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
17. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
18. Tha Carter V
    Lil Wayne
19. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
20. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
21. A Star Is Born Soundtrack
    Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
22. Room 25
    Noname
23. Shawn Mendes
    Shawn Mendes
24. Hive Mind
    The Internet
25. Lush
    Snail Mail
26. Voicenotes
    Charlie Puth
27. Victory Lap
    Nipsey Hussle
28. Bloom
    Troye Sivan
29. boygenius
    boygenius
30. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
31. High As Hope
    Florence + The Machine
32. Care for Me
    Saba
33. Piano & a Microphone 1983
    Prince
34. Trench
    twenty one pilots
35. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
36. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
37. Interstate Gospel
    Pistol Annies
38. beerbongs & bentleys
    Post Malone
39. Caution
    Mariah Carey
40. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
41. Language
    MNEK
42. K.T.S.E.
    Teyana Taylor
43. KOD
    J. Cole
44. Expectations
    Hayley Kiyoko
45. Solace
    Rüfüs Du Sol
46. Egypt Station
    Paul McCartney
47. Aura
    Ozuna
48. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
49. The Mountain
    Dierks Bentley
50. SR3MM
    Rae Sremmurd

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour: Favorite Movies Of 2018

[see also 2017]

• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• Capernaum
  Nadine Labaki
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Game Night
  John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
  Ol Parker
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Widows
  Steve McQueen
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano

The A.V. Club: Best TV of 2018

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Americans
2. The Good Place
3. Atlanta
4. Killing Eve
5. Glow
6. Pose
7. Better Call Saul
8. Lodge 49
9. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
10. Barry
11. Sharp Objects
12. BoJack Horseman
13. The Good Fight
14. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
15. One Day at a Time
16. Big Mouth
17. Succession
18. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
19. Homecoming
20. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
21. Legends of Tomorrow
22. Billions
23. The Terror
24. Vida
25. American Vandal

The San Francisco Chronicle: 14 Best TV Shows of 2018

Guilty Pleasures

• 9-1-1
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• 90 Day Fiancé

1. American Vandal
2. Killing Eve
3. The Haunting of Hill House
4. Atlanta
5. Queer Eye
6. The Terror
7. BoJack Horseman
8. The Americans
9. Barry
10. The Good Place
11. The Great British Bake Off
12. Wild Wild Country
13. Unforgotten
14. Glow

Matt Singer: Best Films of 2018, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
3. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
   Christopher McQuarrie
5. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
6. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
7. First Man
   Damien Chazelle
8. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
9. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
10. Widows
    Steve McQueen

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• Insurrecto
  Gina Apostol
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• Melmoth
  Sarah Perry
• Reagan

  An American Journey
  Bob Spitz
• The Shape of the Ruins
  Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• She Has Her Mother’s Laugh

  The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
  Carl Zimmer