Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Poetry of 2019, in no order

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

• Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World

  Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
  Ed Smith
• The Government Lake

  Last Poems
  James Tate
• The Intangibles
  Elaine Equi
• Hysteria
  Kim Yideum
• Deathwish
  Ben Fama
• Raking Leaves
  Joseph Grantham
• Big Cabin
  Ron Padgett
• A Sand Book
  Ariana Reines
• You Name It
  Colin Herd
• Year By Year
  Lynne Sachs
• More Gone
  Edmund Berrigan
• Arcana

  A Stephen Jonas Reader
  Stephen Jonas
• Dunce
  Mary Ruefle
• Ashenfolk
  Joseph Mosconi
• A Drink of Red Mirror
  Kim Hyesoon
• Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
  Bob Kaufman
• Wallpaper
  Bruce Boone
• Words
  Helena Österlund
• Foghorn Leghorn
  Big Bruiser Dope Boy
• Thought Balloon
  Kit Robinson

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019, in no order

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2012]

Fiction

• The Complete Gary Lutz
  Gary Lutz
• King of Joy
  Richard Chiem
• The Devils
  New Juche
• Trump Sky Alpha
  Mark Doten
• The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter
  Rosmarie Waldrop
• This Brutal House
  Niven Govinden
• Juliet the Maniac
  Juliet Escoria
• Morelia
  Renee Gladman
• Song for the Unraveling of the World
  Brian Evenson
• The Silk Road
  Kathryn Davis
• Circus

  or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
  Wayne Koestenbaum
• Rag
  Maryse Meijer
• Selected Stories
  Troy James Weaver
• Experimental Men
  M. Kitchell
• The Maze of Transparencies
  Karen An-hwei Lee
• The Book of X
  Sarah Rose Etter
• Between Appear And Disappear
  Doug Rice
• Baudelaire Fractal
  Lisa Robertson
• Xerox Over Manhattan
  Shane Jesse Christmass
• Drain Songs

  Stories and a Novella
  Grant Maierhofer
• We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
  Isabel Waidner
• Haunted Girlfriend
  James Nulick
• Vincent and Alice and Alice
  Shane Jones
• Little Hollywood
  Jinnwoo
• Harlem Smoke
  James Champagne
• Soft Fruit in the Sun
  Oliver Zarandi
• Inside the Castle
  Josiah Morgan
• Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski
  Sean Kilpatrick
• Mnemic Symbols
  Andrew Hodgson
• The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories
  Sam Pink
• Mac's Problem
  Enrique Vila-Matas
• Angel House
  David Leo Rice
• The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories
  Raymond Roussel

Nonfiction

• Tosh

  Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
  Tosh Berman
• Beautiful Aliens

  A Steve Abbott Reader
  Steve Abbott
• How I Became One of the Invisible
  David Rattray
• Vile Days

  The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988
  Gary Indiana
• A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself
  Will Alexander
• Me & Other Writing
  Marguerite Duras
• Mr. Know-It-All

  The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
  John Waters
• Camera
  Marcelline Delbecq
• 1979 Songbook
  Byron Coley & Joanne Roberston
• Bad Writing
  Travis Jeppesen
• Essays One
  Lydia Davis
• Death Mort Tod

  A European Book of the Dead
  Steve Finbow & Karolina Urbaniak
• Synthetic Cinema

  The 21st-Century Movie Machine
  Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Animal
  Dorothea Lasky
• The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat
  Michel Leiris
• A Body in the O

  Performances and Stories
  Tim Miller
• Foucault in California

  [A True Story―Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
  Simeon Wade
• Inflamed Invisible

  Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018
  David Toop

Keith Uhlich: Best Films of 2019, as published by Slant Magazine

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Peterloo
   Mike Leigh
2. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
   Marielle Heller
3. La Flor
   Mariano Llinás
4. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
5. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
6. Domino
   Brian De Palma
7. The Gospel of Eureka
   Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
8. Chained for Life
   Aaron Schimberg
9. Under the Silver Lake
   David Robert Mitchell
10. Atlantics
    Mati Diop

Honorable Mention

• The Dead Don't Die
  Jim Jarmusch
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Gemini Man
  Ang Lee
• A Hidden Life
  Terrence Malick
• High Flying Bird
  Steven Soderbergh
• Knives Out
  Rian Johnson
• In Fabric
  Peter Strickland
• Our Time
  Carlos Reygadas
• Shadow
  Zhang Yimou
• Transit
  Christian Petzold

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2019

Brian Tallerico: Top Ten Films of 2019, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
4. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
5. Transit
   Christian Petzold
6. Us
   Jordan Peele
7. Ad Astra
   James Gray
8. A Hidden Life
   Terrence Malick
9. For Sama
   Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
10. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar

Runners-up

• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Fast Color
  Julia Hart
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Bi Gan
• Knives Out
  Rian Johnson
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
  Terry Gilliam
• The Nightingale
  Jennifer Kent
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• Uncut Gems
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Waves
  Trey Edward Shults

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: Ten Best Films of 2019

Melanie McFarland: The Best TV Of 2019, as published by Salon

[see also 2018]

• Ramy
• Sex Education
• A Black Lady Sketch Show
• Pose
• Russian Doll
• Succession
• Watchmen
• The Good Fight
• Better Things
• When They See Us
• Fleabag

Hey, Watch These

• Chernobyl
• BoJack Horseman
• Undone
• Los Espookys
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Shrill
• Broad City
• Gentleman Jack
• PEN15
• Sherman's Showcase
• The Good Place
• Warrior
• Barry
• South Side
• Glow
• Billions
• On Becoming a God in Central Florida
• Tuca & Bertie

Vinyl Me, Please: The Best Albums of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

• Die For My Bitch
  Baby Keem
• The Plugs I Met
  Benny the Butcher
• U.F.O.F.
  Big Thief
• i,i
  Bon Iver
• Charli
  Charli XCX
• Country Squire
  Tyler Childers
• Immunity
  Clairo
• Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
  The Comet Is Coming
• Crumb
  Crumb
• Raw Honey
  Drugdealer
• When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
  Billie Eilish
• Magdalene
  FKA twigs
• Bandana
  Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
• What Chaos Is Imaginary
  girlpool
• thank u, next
  Ariana Grande
• Drip or Drown 2
  Gunna
• The Highwomen
  The Highwomen
• Crushing
  Julia Jacklin
• Anak Ko
  Jay Som
• Dedicated
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• All My Heroes Are Cornballs
  JPEGMAFIA
• GREY Area
  Little Simz
• Wap Konn Jòj!
  Mach-Hommy
• A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen
  Slauson Malone
• let the sun talk
  MAVI
• Fever
  Megan Thee Stallion
• Oh My God
  Kevin Morby
• GIRL
  Maren Morris
• All Mirrors
  Angel Olsen
• Pony
  Orville Peck
• Pang
  Caroline Polachek
• Die a Legend
  Polo G
• Eve
  Rapsody
• KingMaker
  Joel Ross
• Nūr
  Dua Saleh
• House of Sugar
  (Sandy) Alex G
• SASAMI
  SASAMI
• 5
  Sault
• Sound & Fury
  Sturgill Simpson
• The Center Won't Hold
  Sleater-Kinney
• Nothing Great About Britain
  slowthai
• When I Get Home
  Solange
• IGOR
  Tyler, The Creator
• Vagabon
  Vagabon
• Father of the Bride
  Vampire Weekend
• Titanic Rising
  Weyes Blood
• Hiding Places
  Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
• LEGACY! LEGACY!
  Jamila Woods
• So Much Fun
  Young Thug
• Dyn-O-Mite
  Zelooperz

Hyperallergic: Top 25 Books of 2019

1. Potential History

   Unlearning Imperialism
   Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
2. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

   Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
   Saidiya Hartman
3. Memes to Movements

   How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power
   An Xiao Mina
4. Boom

   Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
   Michael Shnayerson
5. C.R.E.A.M.
   Sable Elyse Smith
6. Sun Seekers

   The Cure of California
   Lyra Kilston
7. The New Black Vanguard

   Photography Between Art and Fashion
   Antwaun Sargent
8. Making Comics
   Lynda Barry
9. Life With Picasso
   François Gilot and Carlton Lake
10. Parks

    United States National Park Service Maps from the Collection of Brian Kelley
    Brian Kelley
11. Becoming Mary Sully

    Toward an American Indian Abstract
    Philip J. Deloria
12. The Canary and The Hammer
    Lisa Barnard
13. Optic Nerve
    Maria Gainza
14. An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
    Josh MacPhee
15. The Hard Tomorrow
    Eleanor Davis
16. Temple of Silence

    The Forgotten Works of Herbert Crowley
    Justin Duerr
17. BTTM FDRS
    Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore
18. Year of the Monkey
    Patti Smith
19. The Missing Pages

    The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice
    Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
20. Good Talk

    A Memoir in Conversations
    Mira Jacob
21. Hot Comb
    Ebony Flowers
22. Hinge Pictures

    Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension
    Andrea Andersson
23. Supper Club
    Lara Williams
24. Changes

    Notes on Choreography
    Merce Cunningham
25. Out of Bounds

    The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker
    Marcia Tucker

Ed Gonzalez: Best Films of 2019, as published by Slant Magazine

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Transit
   Christian Petzold
2. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
3. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
   Marielle Heller
4. Black Mother
   Khalik Allah
5. Ad Astra
   James Gray
6. Peterloo
   Mike Leigh
7. The Competition
   Claire Simon
8. Ray & Liz
   Richard Billingham
9. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
10. Climax
    Gaspar Noé

Honorable Mention

• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• An Elephant Sitting Still
  Hu Bo
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• Asako I & II
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• End of the Century
  Lucio Castro
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• The Gospel of Eureka
  Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
• The Beach Bum
  Harmony Korine
• Dragged Across Concrete
  S. Craig Zahler
• The Plagiarists
  Peter Parlow

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2019

Kristy Puchko: Top 10 Films of 2019, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2021]

1. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
   Marielle Heller
2. Little Women
   Greta Gerwig
3. Midsommar
   Ari Aster
4. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
5. Hustlers
   Lorene Scafaria
6. Us
   Jordan Peele
7. Wild Nights with Emily
   Madeleine Olnek
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
   Céline Sciamma
9. Knives and Skin
   Jennifer Reeder
10. Booksmart
    Olivia Wilde

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: Ten Best Films of 2019

Kristen Lopez: Top 10 Films of 2019, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2018]

1. Hustlers
   Lorene Scafaria
2. Rocketman
   Dexter Fletcher
3. Booksmart
   Olivia Wilde
4. Doctor Sleep
   Mike Flanagan
5. Dolemite Is My Name
   Craig Brewer
6. The Peanut Butter Falcon
   Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz
7. Ready or Not
   Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
8. Teen Spirit
   Max Minghella
9. Us
   Jordan Peele
10. Just Mercy
    Destin Daniel Cretton

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: Ten Best Films of 2019