Year-End Lists

Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2022, unranked and in alphabetical order

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• God Save the Animals
  Alex G
• Blue Rev
  Alvvays
• Big Time
  Angel Olsen
• Age/Sex/Location
  Ari Lennox
• Mr. Money with the Vibe
  Asake
• Born Pink
  Blackpink
• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• Renaissance
  Beyoncé
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Ants From Up There
  Black Country, New Road
• Wasteland
  Brent Faiyaz
• Love, Damini
  Burna Boy
• From a Birds Eye View
  Cordae
• Melt My Eyez See Your Future
  Denzel Curry
• Preacher's Daughter
  Ethel Cain
• Caprisongs
  FKA twigs
• Skinty Fia
  Fontaines D.C.
• Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
  Fred again..
• Soul Sold Separately
  Freddie Gibbs
• I Never Liked You
  Future
• DS4Ever
  Gunna
• Simple.
  IDK
• The Forever Story
  JID
• Come Home the Kids Miss You
  Jack Harlow
• Pre Pleasure
  Julia Jacklin
• Blue Water Road
  Kehlani
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• 777
  Latto
• Shape Up
  Leikeli47
• 7220
  Lil Durk
• Special
  Lizzo
• Painless
  Nilüfer Yanya
• I Walked With You A Ways
  Plains
• It's Almost Dry
  Pusha T
• Hypnos
  Ravyn Lenae
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• As Above, So Below
  Sampa the Great
• Nymph
  Shygirl
• A Light for Attracting Attention
  The Smile
• Luv 4 Rent
  Smino
• Gemini Rights
  Steve Lacy
• Oddinary
  Stray Kids
• Broken Hearts Club
  Syd
• Midnights
  Taylor Swift
• Mahal
  Toro y Moi
• Ramona Park Broke My Heart
  Vince Staples
• Dawn FM
  The Weeknd
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg
• And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
  Weyes Blood

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
2. God Save the Animals
   Alex G
3. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
4. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
5. Ants From Up There
   Black Country, New Road
6. Diaspora Problems
   Soul Glo
7. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
8. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
9. Lucifer on the Sofa
   Spoon
10. Boat Songs
    MJ Lenderman
11. Farm to Table
    Bartees Strange
12. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
13. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
14. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
15. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
16. Sometimes, Forever
    Soccer Mommy
17. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
18. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
19. Janky Star
    Grace Ives
20. ILYSM
    Wild Pink
21. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
22. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
23. Ugly Season
    Perfume Genius
24. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
25. I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This...
    Tomberlin
26. Motomami
    Rosalía
27. Versions of Modern Performance
    Horsegirl
28. Household Name
    Momma
29. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
30. God's Country
    Chat Pile
31. Time Skiffs
    Animal Collective
32. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
33. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
34. Labyrinthitis
    Destroyer
35. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
36. Painless
    Nilüfer Yanya
37. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
38. Revealer
    Madison Cunningham
39. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
40. Midnights
    Taylor Swift
41. Dance Fever
    Florence + The Machine
42. Florist
    Florist
43. Caprisongs
    FKA twigs
44. Glitch Princess
    yeule
45. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
46. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
47. Too Much to Ask
    Cheekface
48. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
49. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
50. Fossora
    Björk

Oprah Daily: Our Favorite Books of 2022, seemingly in alphabetical order with fiction first but numbered as follows

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Afterlives
   Abdulrazak Gurnah
2. All the Lovers in the Night
   Mieko Kawakami
3. Black Cake
   Charmaine Wilkerson
4. Demon Copperhead
   Barbara Kingsolver
5. Dinosaurs
   Lydia Millet
6. French Braid
   Anne Tyler
7. Homesickness
   Colin Barrett
8. Honey & Spice
   Bolu Babalola
9. If I Survive You
   Jonathan Escoffery
10. Killers of a Certain Age
    Deanna Raybourn
11. Lessons in Chemistry
    Bonnie Garmus
12. Lucy by the Sea
    Elizabeth Strout
13. Liberation Day
    George Saunders
14. Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century
    Jennifer Homans
15. Night of the Living Rez
    Morgan Talty
16. Nightcrawling
    Leila Mottley
17. Nobody Gets Out Alive

    Stories
    Leigh Newman
18. Our Missing Hearts
    Celeste Ng
19. People Person
    Candice Carty-Williams
20. Sacrificio
    Ernesto Mestre-Reed
21. Sea of Tranquility
    Emily St. John Mandel
22. Seven Empty Houses
    Samanta Schweblin
23. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
    Laura Warrell
24. Thank You, Mr. Nixon
    Gish Jen
25. The Birdcatcher
    Gayl Jones
26. The Candy House
    Jennifer Egan
27. The Furrows
    Namwali Serpell
28. The Hero of This Book
    Elizabeth McCracken
29. The Rabbit Hutch
    Tess Gunty
30. The Passenger
    Cormac McCarthy
31. The School for Good Mothers
    Jessamine Chan
32. To Paradise
    Hanya Yanagihara
33. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Gabrielle Zevin
34. Trust
    Hernan Diaz
35. Winter Work
    Dan Fesperman
36. By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
    Margaret A. Burnham
37. Constructing a Nervous System

    A Memoir
    Margo Jefferson
38. Finding Me
    Viola Davis
39. An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Ed Yong
40. Lady Justice

    Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
    Dahlia Lithwick
41. Lost & Found

    A Memoir
    Kathryn Schulz
42. South to America

    A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    Imani Perry
43. The Grimkes

    The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
    Kerri K. Greenidge
44. The Revolutionary

    Samuel Adams
    Stacy Schiff
45. The Song of the Cell

    An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    Siddhartha Mukherjee

Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. King Cobra
   Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals
2. I Love You Jennifer B
   Jockstrap
3. Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.
   Kai Whiston
4. Crash
   Charli XCX
5. caroline
   caroline
6. Thoughtless Cruelty
   Thank
7. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
8. Barbarism
   Katie Alice Greer
9. Stumpwork
   Dry Cleaning
10. Finally, New
    They Hate Change
11. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
12. Cry Sugar
    Hudson Mohawke
13. The Ruby Cord
    Richard Dawson
14. In These Times
    Makaya McCraven
15. everything perfect is already here
    claire rousay
16. Nymph
    Shygirl
17. Cheat Codes
    Danger Mouse and Black Thought
18. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
19. Endure
    Special Interest
20. Hold the Girl
    Rina Sawayama
21. a journey…
    hinako omori
22. Giant Palm
    Naima Bock
23. Ultra Truth
    Daniel Avery
24. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    Big Thief
25. Tresor
    Gwenno
26. Hideous Bastard
    Oliver Sim
27. Hellfire
    black midi
28. Limbs
    Keeley Forsyth
29. Kumoyo Island
    Kikagaku Moyo
30. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
31. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
32. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
33. The Dream
    alt-J
34. Aura
    Hatis Noit
35. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
36. Loggerhead
    Wu-Lu
37. Squeeze
    SASAMI
38. The Unscratchable Itch
    Sniffany & The Nits
39. Earth Patterns
    Szun Waves
40. Traumazine
    Megan Thee Stallion

Glide Magazine: 20 Best Albums of 2022, in alphabetical order

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Electric Cowboy: Born In Carolina Mud
  Boulevards
• When the Wind Forgets Your Name
  Built to Spill
• Still Life
  Carson McHone
• Sweet Unknown
  Ceramic Animal
• Cheat Codes
  Danger Mouse and Black Thought
• Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Second Nature
  Lucius
• Crooked Tree
  Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
• Set Sail
  North Mississippi Allstars
• Endless Rooms
  Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
• Colder Streams
  The Sadies
• Teeth Marks
  S.G. Goodman
• Natural Brown Prom Queen
  Sudan Archives
• I Am the Moon
  Tedeschi Trucks Band
• The Will to Live
  Titus Andronicus
• Thee Sacred Souls
  Thee Sacred Souls
• Mahal
  Toro y Moi
• Cave World
  Viagra Boys
• And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
  Weyes Blood

20 Honorable Mentions

• God Save the Animals
  Alex G
• Time Skiffs
  Animal Collective
• Farm to Table
  Bartees Strange
• One Day
  The Cactus Blossoms
• Almost Proud
  Del McCoury Band
• Melt My Eyez See Your Future
  Denzel Curry
• Not Tight
  Domi and JD Beck
• Lighten Up
  Erin Rae
• Impera
  Ghost
• Versions of Modern Performance
  Horsegirl
• Life on Earth
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Free LSD
  OFF!
• Fear of the Dawn
  Jack White
• Omnium Gatherum
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Benevento
  Marco Benevento
• I Walked With You A Ways
  Plains
• Forever On My Mind
  Son House
• Lucifer on the Sofa
  Spoon
• A Light for Attracting Attention
  The Smile
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg

Inkoo Kang: The Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2015 • 2014]

• The Good Fight
• Hacks
• Mo
• My Brilliant Friend
• The Patient
• The Rehearsal
• Rothaniel
• Somebody Somewhere
• This Fool
• This Is Going to Hurt

Honorable Mentions

• Abbott Elementary
• Atlanta
• The Bear
• Evil
• The January 6th hearings
• Julia
• P-Valley
• Ramy
• Reservation Dogs
• Single Drunk Female
• We Own This City

Bonus: Documentaries

• The Murdochs: Empire of Influence
• We Need to Talk About Cosby
• Menudo: Forever Young
• Children of the Underground
• The Big Conn

The Economist: The Best Films of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• Moonage Daydream
  Brett Morgen
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  Guillermo del Toro
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• Triangle of Sadness
  Ruben Östlund
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi

Maria Crawford: Best Poetry Books of 2022, as published by Financial Times

[see also 2023]

• Heritage Aesthetics
  Anthony Anaxagorou
• The Illustrated Woman
  Helen Mort
• Manorism
  Yomi Sode
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
  various authors

New York Public Library: Best Books of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• The Genesis of Misery
  Neon Yang
• The High Desert

  Black. Punk. Nowhere.
  James Spooner
• A Lady for a Duke
  Alexis Hall
• Nettle & Bone
  T. Kingfisher
• Path of Totality
  Niina Pollari
• Shutter
  Ramona Emerson
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  The Last Ronin
  Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas

The Economist: The Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2023]

• Can I tell you a secret?
• Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
• Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
• How We Survive
• Not Lost
• The Run-Up
• Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV
• Wild Boys
• Will Be Wild
• We Were Three