Year-End Lists

Glide Magazine: Best Albums of 2019, listed alphabetically

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

• Designer
  Aldous Harding
• Black Pumas
  Black Pumas
• Jaime
  Brittany Howard
• Western Stars
  Bruce Springsteen
• Rearrange My Heart
  Che Apalache
• Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
  The Comet Is Coming
• The Imperial
  The Delines
• Atlanta Millionaires Club
  Faye Webster
• Dogrel
  Fontaines D.C.
• Gold Past Life
  Fruit Bats
• Best Kept Secrets
  Ghost Light
• Tales of America
  J.S. Ondara
• Kiwanuka
  Michael Kiwanuka
• there is no Other
  Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
• American Love Song
  Ryan Bingham
• Remind Me Tomorrow
  Sharon Van Etten
• South of Reality
  The Claypool Lennon Delirium
• Fear Inoculum
  Tool
• Human Question
  The Yawpers
• Walk Through Fire
  Yola

20 Honorable Mentions

• Buddha And The Blues
  Anders Osborne
• All Mirrors
  Angel Olsen
• Now I'm Free
  Bill Scorzari
• Years to Burn
  Calexico and Iron & Wine
• Distance Over Time
  Dream Theater
• Raw Honey
  Drugdealer
• It's Real
  Ex Hex
• All For Money
  Greensky Bluegrass
• Love and Liberation
  Jazzmeia Horn
• On the Line
  Jenny Lewis
• Cuz I Love You
  Lizzo
• Samsara
  Los Coast
• We Get By
  Mavis Staples
• Up And Rolling
  North Mississippi Allstars
• The Future's Still Ringing In My Ears
  Sam Cohen
• Forever
  Vandoliers
• Three Chords and the Truth
  Van Morrison
• Titanic Rising
  Weyes Blood
• Side Effects
  White Denim
• Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness
  Yak

Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2011]

1. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
   Billie Eilish
2. Remind Me Tomorrow
   Sharon Van Etten
3. LEGACY! LEGACY!
   Jamila Woods
4. All Mirrors
   Angel Olsen
5. thank u, next
   Ariana Grande
6. IGOR
   Tyler, The Creator
7. Cuz I Love You
   Lizzo
8. Father of the Bride
   Vampire Weekend
9. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
   Lana Del Rey
10. Fear Inoculum
    Tool
11. Young Enough
    Charly Bliss
12. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
13. U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief
14. Morbid Stuff
    PUP
15. Cheap Queen
    King Princess
16. Atlanta Millionaires Club
    Faye Webster
17. i,i
    Bon Iver
18. When I Get Home
    Solange
19. Jaime
    Brittany Howard
20. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
21. GREY Area
    Little Simz
22. Beware of the Dogs
    Stella Donnelly
23. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
24. Flamagra
    Flying Lotus
25. Better Oblivion Community Center
    Better Oblivion Community Center
26. Titanic Rising
    Weyes Blood
27. Nothing Great About Britain
    slowthai
28. Heard It In A Past Life
    Maggie Rogers
29. Magdalene
    FKA twigs
30. Charli
    Charli XCX
31. Ventura
    Anderson .Paak
32. Map of the Soul: Persona
    BTS
33. The Highwomen
    The Highwomen
34. ZUU
    Denzel Curry
35. Anak Ko
    Jay Som
36. Ancestral Recall
    Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
37. Sound & Fury
    Sturgill Simpson
38. On the Line
    Jenny Lewis
39. Thanks for the Dance
    Leonard Cohen
40. Crushing
    Julia Jacklin
41. You Can't Sit With Us
    Pivot Gang
42. Miss Universe
    Nilüfer Yanya
43. How Do You Love?
    The Regrettes
44. Even in the Tremor
    Lady Lamb
45. Immunity
    Clairo
46. House of Sugar
    (Sandy) Alex G
47. The Balance
    Catfish and the Bottlemen
48. Keepsake
    Hatchie
49. At the Party with My Brown Friends
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
50. Western Stars
    Bruce Springsteen

Christopher Borrelli: The 10 Best Books of 2019, as published by The Chicago Tribune

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

Fiction

• Ducks, Newburyport
  Lucy Ellmann
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• The Memory Police
  Yoko Ogawa
• Growing Things
  Paul Tremblay
• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson

Nonfiction

• Go Ahead in the Rain

  Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• How to Hide an Empire

  A History of the Greater United States
  Daniel Immerwahr
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• Say Nothing

  A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe

And 15 almost top-10s, well worth your time

• The Peanuts Papers

  Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
  Andrew Blauner (editor)
• Exhalation
  Ted Chiang
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• Thick

  And Other Essays
  Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Me
  Elton John
• The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
  Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Institute
  Stephen King
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• Underland

  A Deep Time Journey
  Robert Macfarlane
• Savage Appetites

  Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
  Rachel Monroe
• I Like to Watch

  Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
  Emily Nussbaum
• Disappearing Earth
  Julia Phillips
• Audience of One

  Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
  James Poniewozik
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• One Day

  The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
  Gene Weingarten

Eric Kohn: The 19 Best Movies of 2019, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012]

1. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Monos
   Alejandro Landes
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night
   Bi Gan
5. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
7. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
8. Us
   Jordan Peele
9. The Farewell
   Lulu Wang
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
11. Atlantics
    Mati Diop
12. Apollo 11
    Todd Douglas Miller
13. The Nightingale
    Jennifer Kent
14. The Lighthouse
    Robert Eggers
15. Clemency
    Chinonye Chukwu
16. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
17. One Child Nation
    Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
18. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
19. High Life
    Claire Denis

Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
   Lana Del Rey
2. thank u, next
   Ariana Grande
3. So Much Fun
   Young Thug
4. Titanic Rising
   Weyes Blood
5. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
   Billie Eilish
6. U.F.O.F.
   Big Thief
7. i,i
   Bon Iver
8. Cuz I Love You
   Lizzo
9. Eve
   Rapsody
10. The Lost Boy
    YBN Cordae
11. All Mirrors
    Angel Olsen
12. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator
13. Late Night Feelings
    Mark Ronson
14. ZUU
    Denzel Curry
15. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
16. Fever
    Megan Thee Stallion
17. Heard It In A Past Life
    Maggie Rogers
18. Baby on Baby
    DaBaby
19. Over It
    Summer Walker
20. I Am Easy to Find
    The National
21. Is He Real?
    IDK
22. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
23. Jaime
    Brittany Howard
24. i am > i was
    21 Savage
25. Lover
    Taylor Swift
26. Rap or Go to the League
    2 Chainz
27. Everythings for Sale
    Boogie
28. Immunity
    Clairo
29. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
30. Cheap Queen
    King Princess
31. Mirrorland
    EarthGang
32. Charli
    Charli XCX
33. Diaspora
    GoldLink
34. Patience
    Mannequin Pussy
35. Western Stars
    Bruce Springsteen
36. Magdalene
    FKA twigs
37. Ventura
    Anderson .Paak
38. Remind Me Tomorrow
    Sharon Van Etten
39. When I Get Home
    Solange
40. Father of the Bride
    Vampire Weekend
41. Hollywood's Bleeding
    Post Malone
42. Miss Universe
    Nilüfer Yanya
43. Better Oblivion Community Center
    Better Oblivion Community Center
44. Arizona Baby
    Kevin Abstract
45. No.6 Collaborations Project
    Ed Sheeran
46. Dedicated
    Carly Rae Jepsen
47. Young Enough
    Charly Bliss
48. Rouge
    Yuna
49. uknowhatimsayin¿
    Danny Brown
50. Death Race for Love
    Juice WRLD

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. For You and I
   Loraine James
2. 2020
   Richard Dawson
3. Ecstatic Computation
   Caterina Barbieri
4. Your Wilderness Revisited
   William Doyle
5. Inside the Rose
   These New Puritans
6. The Age of Immunology
   Vanishing Twin
7. Schlagenheim
   black midi
8. Serfs Up!
   The Fat White Family
9. The Reeling
   Brighde Chaimbeul
10. Life Metal
    Sunn O)))
11. Grapefruit Regret
    Karenn
12. Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
    Moor Mother
13. Eton Alive
    Sleaford Mods
14. Héroïques Animaux de la Misère
    Harrga
15. The Utopia Strong
    The Utopia Strong
16. Stunning Luxury
    Snapped Ankles
17. Metaprogramação
    Deafkids
18. Utility
    Barker
19. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
    Bill Callahan
20. No Home Record
    Kim Gordon
21. Magdalene
    FKA twigs
22. Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
    The Comet Is Coming
23. Cuz I Love You
    Lizzo
24. International Teachers of Pop
    International Teachers of Pop
25. Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum
    MSYLMA
26. Border Ballads
    Richard Skelton
27. When I Get Home
    Solange
28. Your Psyche's Rainbow Panorama
    Tony Njoku
29. Wraith
    Teeth of the Sea
30. Psychopposition
    Errant Monks
30. The Limit Experience
    Errant Monks
31. I Was Real
    75 Dollar Bill
32. Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
    Alexander Tucker
33. Diamonds
    Yao Bobby & Simon Grab
34. The Tiger’s Mind
    John Tilbury
35. The Practice of Love
    Jenny Hval
36. Gentle Persuaders
    Sly & The Family Drone
37. PROTO
    Holly Herndon
38. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
39. Four Bibles
    Hey Colossus
40. TUTTI
    Cosey Fanni Tutti
41. Fyah
    Theon Cross
42. Input>chaos
    Ghold
43. Doing Drugs, Selling Drugs
    Shit and Shine
44. Seven Horses For Seven Kings
    Black to Comm
45. And Departt From Mono Games
    Loft
46. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
47. 7 Directions
    Nkisi
48. Christian Wolff – Preludes, Variations, Studies and Incidental Music
    Philip Thomas
49. Um Dada
    Stephen Mallinder
50. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
51. Laylet El Booree
    Ifriqiyya Electrique
52. Fiyah!!!
    Abdu Ali
53. Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer
    Oli XL
54. Ataxia
    Rian Treanor
55. Anima Mysterium
    Yugen Blakrok
56. Plastic Anniversary
    Matmos
57. Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
    Deerhunter
58. Hidden History of the Human Race
    Blood Incantation
59. Crush
    Floating Points
60. Death Drive
    Debby Friday
61. Psychodrama
    Dave
62. Buck II: Where Do You Want It?
    Buck Young
63. Giant Swan
    Giant Swan
64. Reach the Endless Sea
    Tunes of Negation
65. Dis Fantasy
    Dis Fantasy
66. Tangerine
    Shanti Celeste
67. Так закалялась сталь (Thus The Steel Was Tempered)
    Shortparis
68. Lifetime
    Klein
69. Reward
    Cate Le Bon
70. All The Many Peopls
    Jennifer Walshe
71. Yeux Rouges
    Triplego
72. Music x Road
    Headie One
73. Whistling Arrow
    Whistling Arrow
74. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator
75. Environment
    My Disco
76. ~~~
    Ana Roxanne
77. Remind Me Tomorrow
    Sharon Van Etten
78. Falha Comum
    Rakta
79. John Luther Adams’ Canticles of the Sky + Three High Places
    Oliver Coates
80. Odds Against Tomorrow
    Bill Orcutt
81. Solitude
    King Midas Sound
82. The Book of Traps and Lessons
    Kate Tempest
83. The Flower and the Vessel
    Felicia Atkinson
84. Parallel Persia
    Sote
85. Bastard Music
    Meatraffle
86. Triumvirate
    Carter Tutti Void
87. Whities 023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor)
    Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy
88. Spirit Counsel
    Thurston Moore
89. Sleepmoss
    Meemo Comma
90. What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away
    Membranes
91. Arrow
    Gum Takes Tooth
92. Fenella
    Fenella
93. Sing as the Crow Flies
    Laura Cannell & Polly Wright
94. Tainted Lunch
    Warmduscher
95. Tolerancia Picante
    MoE and Mette Rasmussen
96. Dolphine
    Mega Bog
97. Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus: Philosophical Investigations from the Invisible Theatre
    John Zorn
98. COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
    Matana Roberts
99. Eurodrome
    Alameda 5
100. Cafe Mor
     Scorn

Katy Waldman: The Best Books of 2019, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

• Mostly Dead Things
  Kristen Arnett
• The Divers' Game
  Jesse Ball
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• Ducks, Newburyport
  Lucy Ellmann
• Girl, Woman, Other
  Bernardine Evaristo
• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones
• In the Dream House
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Valerie

  or, The Faculty of Dreams
  Sara Stridsberg
• Axiomatic
  Maria Tumarkin
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Titanic Rising
   Weyes Blood
2. All Mirrors
   Angel Olsen
3. Remind Me Tomorrow
   Sharon Van Etten
4. Two Hands
   Big Thief
5. Magdalene
   FKA twigs
6. Jaime
   Brittany Howard
7. Dedicated
   Carly Rae Jepsen
8. Crushing
   Julia Jacklin
9. Cuz I Love You
   Lizzo
10. Atlanta Millionaires Club
    Faye Webster
11. Schlagenheim
    black midi
12. On the Line
    Jenny Lewis
13. Oh My God
    Kevin Morby
14. Dogrel
    Fontaines D.C.
15. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
16. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
17. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator
18. Better Oblivion Community Center
    Better Oblivion Community Center
19. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
20. Father of the Bride
    Vampire Weekend
21. Beware of the Dogs
    Stella Donnelly
22. The Highwomen
    The Highwomen
23. uknowhatimsayin¿
    Danny Brown
24. U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief
25. When I Get Home
    Solange
26. Heard It In A Past Life
    Maggie Rogers
27. thank u, next
    Ariana Grande
28. Miss Universe
    Nilüfer Yanya
29. House of Sugar
    (Sandy) Alex G
30. LEGACY! LEGACY!
    Jamila Woods
31. i,i
    Bon Iver
32. Any Human Friend
    Marika Hackman
33. Patience
    Mannequin Pussy
34. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
35. All My Heroes Are Cornballs
    JPEGMAFIA
36. Young Enough
    Charly Bliss
37. Pang
    Caroline Polachek
38. Bird Songs of a Killjoy
    Bedouine
39. placeholder
    Hand Habits
40. This Is How You Smile
    Helado Negro
41. Quiet Signs
    Jessica Pratt
42. Charli
    Charli XCX
43. Like the River Loves the Sea
    Joan Shelley
44. basking in the glow
    Oso Oso
45. The Center Won't Hold
    Sleater-Kinney
46. Fever
    Megan Thee Stallion
47. Morbid Stuff
    PUP
48. Laughing Matter
    Wand
49. ZUU
    Denzel Curry
50. I Am Easy to Find
    The National

Nictate: Top 16 Films of 2019, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Transit
   Christian Petzold
2. Our Time
   Carlos Reygadas
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
4. Non-Fiction
   Olivier Assayas
5. Frankie
   Ira Sachs
6. The Souvenir
   Joanna Hogg
7. Ivana the Terrible
   Ivana Mladenović
8. To the Ends of the Earth
   Kiyoshi Kurosawa
9. Atlantics
   Mati Diop
10. Too Late to Die Young
    Dominga Sotomayor
11. High Life
    Claire Denis
12. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
13. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
14. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
15. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
16. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho

Bilge Ebiri: Top 10 Movies of 2019, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

1. Climax
   Gaspar Noé
2. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
3. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
4. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
5. The Wild Pear Tree
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
6. A Hidden Life
   Terrence Malick
7. Atlantics
   Mati Diop
8. Shadow
   Zhang Yimou
9. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino