Year-End Lists

Entertainment Weekly: 20 Best Albums of 2018

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

1. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
2. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
3. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
4. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
5. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
   Arctic Monkeys
6. Interstate Gospel
   Pistol Annies
7. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
   Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
8. Desperate Man
   Eric Church
9. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
10. Camila
    Camila Cabello
11. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
12. Hell-On
    Neko Case
13. Lush
    Snail Mail
14. Daytona
    Pusha T
15. The Tree
    Lori McKenna
16. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
17. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
18. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
19. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
20. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott

Darren Franich: Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019]

1. Atlanta
2. The Good Fight
3. Adventure Time
4. Lodge 49
5. Homecoming
6. Barry
7. Corporate
8. Dear White People
9. The Deuce
10. Superstore

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2018

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• And Now We Have Everything

  On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
  Meaghan O'Connell
• Dead Girls

  Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
  Alice Bolin
• Fear

  Trump in the White House
  Bob Woodward
• Give People Money

  How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
  Annie Lowrey
• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon
• Heart Berries
  Terese Marie Mailhot
• How to Change Your Mind

  What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  Michelle McNamara
• Impossible Owls
  Brian Phillips
• I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
  Tim Kreider
• The Line Becomes a River

  Dispatches from the Border
  Francisco Cantú
• On Desperate Ground

  The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle
  Hampton Sides
• Playing Changes

  Jazz for the New Century
  Nate Chinen
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Rising Out of Hatred

  The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
  Eli Saslow
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo
• The Third Reich

  A History of Nazi Germany
  Thomas Childers
• Vanishing Twins

  A Marriage
  Leah Dieterich
• What Is Real?

  The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
  Adam Becker

Kristen Baldwin: Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019]

1. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
2. Killing Eve
3. The Good Fight
4. Barry
5. Pose
6. Cobra Kai
7. Better Call Saul
8. You
9. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
10. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Kelly Lawler: 25 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by USA Today

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

1. The Americans
2. The Good Fight
3. American Vandal
4. Escape at Dannemora
5. Killing Eve
6. One Day at a Time
7. The Good Place
8. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. Superstore
11. Barry
12. Atlanta
13. You
14. Trial & Error
15. Insecure
16. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
17. The End of the F***ing World
18. Doctor Who
19. Big Mouth
20. Queer Eye
21. Jane the Virgin
22. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
23. BoJack Horseman
24. Glow
25. Maniac

Complex: Best Albums of 2018

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

1. Daytona
   Pusha T
2. ASTROWORLD
   Travis Scott
3. KOD
   J. Cole
4. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
5. Redemption
   Jay Rock
6. Victory Lap
   Nipsey Hussle
7. Everything Is Love
   The Carters
8. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
   Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
9. Negro Swan
   Blood Orange
10. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
11. Swimming
    Mac Miller
12. Drip Harder
    Lil Baby & Gunna
13. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
14. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
15. Care for Me
    Saba
16. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
17. Fetti
    Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
18. Tha Carter V
    Lil Wayne
19. Room 25
    Noname
20. DiCaprio 2
    JID
21. Hive Mind
    The Internet
22. NOIR
    Smino
23. beerbongs & bentleys
    Post Malone
24. Honey
    Robyn
25. East Atlanta Love Letter
    6LACK
26. 4275
    Jacquees
27. Book of Ryan
    Royce da 5'9"
28. Championships
    Meek Mill
29. TA13OO
    Denzel Curry
30. SR3MM
    Rae Sremmurd
31. FM!
    Vince Staples
32. MIH-TY
    Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign
33. KAOS
    DJ Muggs & Roc Marciano
34. Scorpion
    Drake
35. God Level
    03 Greedo
36. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
37. K.T.S.E.
    Teyana Taylor
38. Us
    Empress Of
39. Vibras
    J Balvin
40. Not All Heroes Wear Capes
    Metro Boomin
41. Forever
    Popcaan
42. Supreme Blientele
    Westside Gunn
43. November
    SiR
44. Oxnard
    Anderson .Paak
45. Die Lit
    Playboi Carti
46. My Dear Melancholy
    The Weeknd
47. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
48. Caution
    Mariah Carey
49. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
50. Culture II
    Migos

Nicholas Quah: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. Slow Burn
2. Serial
3. Caliphate
4. In the Dark
5. Personal Best
6. 30 for 30
7. Headlong: Surviving Y2K
8. Alice Isn't Dead
9. It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
10. Wooden Overcoats

The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Cocoa Sugar
   Young Fathers
2. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
3. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
4. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
5. Honey
   Robyn
6. Here Lies the Body
   Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
7. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
8. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
9. Twin Fantasy
   Car Seat Headrest
10. All Melody
    Nils Frahm
11. From When I Wake the Want Is
    Kathryn Joseph
12. 7
    Beach House
13. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
14. Dream Wife
    Dream Wife
15. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
    Wye Oak
16. Acts of Fear and Love
    Slaves
17. Confident Music For Confident People
    Confidence Man
18. Saturn
    Nao
19. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
20. Room 25
    Noname
21. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
22. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
23. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
24. Ecstatic Arrow
    Virginia Wing
25. Sunday Best
    Martha Ffion
26. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
27. Lavender
    Half Waif
28. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
29. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
30. Dance Music
    Mastersystem
31. Working Class Woman
    Marie Davidson
32. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
33. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
34. Sum of All Your Parts
    Fatherson
35. Lush
    Snail Mail
36. All That Divides
    Black Peaks
37. Beyondless
    Iceage
38. C’est La Vie
    Phosphorescent
39. Superorganism
    Superorganism
40. Compro
    Skee Mask
41. 2012-2017
    Against All Logic
42. Fall Into the Sun
    Swearin’
43. Double Negative
    Low
44. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
45. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
46. At Weddings
    Tomberlin
47. Songs of Praise
    Shame
48. The House
    Porches
49. Invitation To Her's
    Her's
50. Veteran
    JPEGMAFIA

Emily Yoshida: Best Movies of 2018, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2017]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
3. Shirkers
   Sandi Tan
4. Suspiria
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
6. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
7. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
8. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
9. Have a Nice Day
   Liu Jian
10. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper

Richard Brody: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The New Yorker

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

• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Werewolf
  Ashley McKenzie
• Mrs. Hyde
  Serge Bozon
• The Old Man & the Gun
  David Lowery
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont
• Claire’s Camera
  Hong Sang-soo
• Infinite Football
  Corneliu Porumboiu
• Monrovia, Indiana
  Frederick Wiseman
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Sollers Point
  Matthew Porterfield
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• Golden Exits
  Alex Ross Perry
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  Marielle Heller
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• I Am Not a Witch
  Rungano Nyoni
• A Bread Factory
  Patrick Wang
• The 15:17 to Paris
  Clint Eastwood
• The Rest I Make Up
  Michelle Morgan
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Bisbee '17
  Robert Greene
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• Gavagai
  Rob Tregenza
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Notes on an Appearance
  Ricky D'Ambrose
• The Other Side of Everything
  Mila Turajlic
• The Spy Who Dumped Me
  Susanna Fogel
• Scarred Hearts
  Radu Jude
• Pow Wow
  Robinson Devor
• A Season in France
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
  Sasha Waters Freyer
• The Hate U Give
  George Tillman Jr.
• The Waldheim Waltz
  Ruth Beckermann