Boston.com: The 18 Best Books of 2019

[see also 2018]

Fiction

• Where Reasons End
  Yiyun Li
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• Territory of Light
  Yuko Tsushima
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• Deep River
  Karl Marlantes
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead
• Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
  László Krasznahorkai
• The Dutch House
  Ann Patchett
• Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
  Nina MacLaughlin

Poetry

• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction

• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
  Dani Shapiro
• What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  Carolyn Forché
• Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller
• The Education of an Idealist
  Samantha Power
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants
  Bill Bryson

Sight & Sound Magazine: The Best TV Series of 2019, the results of the Sight & Sound TV Poll

[see also 2020]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. Chernobyl
4. Russian Doll
5. Unbelievable
6. When They See Us
7. Mindhunter
8. Years and Years
9. Watchmen
10. Stath Lets Flats

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2019

[see also 2020, 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
2. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
3. Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
4. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
5. Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont
6. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
7. Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
8. The Mule — Clint Eastwood
9. Joker — Todd Phillips
10. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese

Publishers Weekly: 5 Best Poetry Books of 2019

[see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2012]

• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Hybrida
  Tina Chang
• The Octopus Museum
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• To the Wren: Collected & New Poems
  Jane Mead
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown

Vibe Magazine: The 30 Best Albums of 2019

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Ari Lennox — Shea Butter Baby
2. Benny the Butcher — The Plugs I Met
3. Beyoncé — The Lion King: The Gift
4. Beyoncé — Homecoming: The Live Album
5. Burna Boy — African Giant
6. DaBaby — KIRK
7. Daniel Caesar — CASE STUDY 01
8. Danny Brown — uknowhatimsayin¿
9. Doja Cat — Hot Pink
10. Dreamville — Revenge of the Dreamers III
11. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana
12. GoldLink — Diaspora
13. Gunna — Drip or Drown 2
14. Jamila Woods — LEGACY! LEGACY!
15. Jim Jones — El Capo
16. Kemba — Gilda
17. Little Brother — May the Lord Watch
18. Lucky Daye — Painted
19. Michael Kiwanuka — Kiwanuka
20. Raphael Saadiq — Jimmy Lee
21. Rapsody — Eve
22. Rick Ross — Port of Miami 2
23. SiR — Chasing Summer
24. Snoh Aalegra — - Ugh, those feels again
25. Solange — When I Get Home
26. Summer Walker — Over It
27. Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
28. Wale — Wow... That's Crazy
29. Young Thug — So Much Fun
30. YBN Cordae — The Lost Boy

Anthony Frame: 10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed, as published by Chicago Review of Books

• The Year of Blue Water
  Yanyi
• Bodega
  Su Hwang
• A Sand Book
  Ariana Reines
• turn around, BRXGHT XYXS
  Rosebud Ben-Oni
• Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy
  Andrés Cerpa
• Mannequin in the Nude
  Logan February
• Hard Damage
  Aria Aber
• The Uninhabitable
  Jesse Rice-Evans
• Hull
  Xandria Phillips
• Afakasi - Half-Caste
  Hali F Sofala-Jones

Robin Hilton: Best Albums of 2019, as posted by NPR

[see also 2017]

1. Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
2. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
3. Holly Herndon — PROTO
4. Microwave — Death is a Warm Blanket
5. Ada Lea — what we say in private
6. Weyes Blood — Titanic Rising
7. Tiny Ruins — Olympic Girls
8. Great Grandpa — Four of Arrows
9. Molly Sarlé — Karaoke Angel
10. Kate Davis — Trophy

Bob Boilen: Best Albums of 2019, as posted by NPR

[see also 2018, 2017, 2011]

1. Big Thief — Two Hands
2. Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
3. Angel Olsen — All Mirrors
4. Better Oblivion Community Center — Better Oblivion Community Center
5. Aldous Harding — Designer
6. Lankum — The Livelong Day
7. Mdou Moctar — Ilana (The Creator)
8. Kate Davis — Trophy
9. Joan Shelley — Like the River Loves the Sea
10. The Good Ones — Rwanda, You Should Be Loved

Ann Powers: Favorite Albums of 2019, as posted by NPR

[see also 2020, 2017, 2016, 2011]

1. Angel Bat Dawid — The Oracle
2. Adia Victoria — Silences
3. Mereba — The Jungle Is the Only Way Out
4. Mekons — Deserted
5. Philip Bailey — Love Will Find a Way
6. Jazzmeia Horn — Love and Liberation
7. Hiss Golden Messenger — Terms of Surrender
8. Matthew Halsall — Oneness
9. Erin Enderlin — Faulkner County
10. Joe Henry — The Gospel According to Water

Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2019

[see also 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]

1. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
2. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
3. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
4. Atlantics — Mati Diop
5. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Transit — Christian Petzold
7. A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
8. High Life — Claire Denis
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino