Year-End Lists

Magnet Magazine: Top 25 Albums of 2019

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

1. Kiwanuka
   Michael Kiwanuka
2. Dogrel
   Fontaines D.C.
3. U.F.O.F.
   Big Thief
3. Two Hands
   Big Thief
4. Stroke Manor
   The Minus 5
5. Titanic Rising
   Weyes Blood
6. All Mirrors
   Angel Olsen
7. Zeppelin Over China
   Guided By Voices
7. Warp And Woof
   Guided By Voices
7. Sweating the Plague
   Guided By Voices
8. Patience
   Mannequin Pussy
9. I Am Easy to Find
   The National
10. Lux Prima
    Karen O & Danger Mouse
11. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Young Enough
    Charly Bliss
13. Jaime
    Brittany Howard
14. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
15. The Highwomen
    The Highwomen
16. Spread The Feeling
    Pernice Brothers
17. The Seduction of Kansas
    Priests
18. Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
    Deerhunter
19. After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house
    Nivhek
20. Terms of Surrender
    Hiss Golden Messenger
21. Remind Me Tomorrow
    Sharon Van Etten
22. Slow Fascination
    Big Search
23. leaving meaning.
    Swans
24. Father of the Bride
    Vampire Weekend
25. Morbid Stuff
    PUP

Elena Lazic: Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

1. The Nightingale
   Jennifer Kent
2. Adoration
   Fabrice Du Welz
3. Deerskin
   Quentin Dupieux
4. Isadora's Children
   Damien Manivel
5. For Sama
   Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
6. Instinct
   Halina Reijn
7. Dragged Across Concrete
   S. Craig Zahler
8. Animals
   Sophie Hyde
9. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
   Joe Berlinger
10. Our Time
    Carlos Reygadas

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019
• Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2019

B. Ruby Rich: The Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2016]

• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• Collective
  Alexander Nanau
• One Child Nation
  Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
• Pain and Glory
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• The Edge of Democracy
  Petra Costa
• The Infiltrators
  Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra
• Three Summers
  Sandra Kogut

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019

Erika Balsom: Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

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

• Just Don't Think I'll Scream
  Frank Beauvais
• Transit
  Christian Petzold
• Martin Eden
  Pietro Marcello
• No Data Plan
  Miko Revereza
• SaF05
  Charlotte Prodger
• Vitalina Varela
  Pedro Costa
• Fire Will Come
  Oliver Laxe
• The Hottest August
  Brett Story
• Present.Perfect.
  Shengze Zhu
• Your Face
  Tsai Ming-liang

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019

Sean Burns: The 10 Best Films of 2019, as posted by WBUR’s The ARTery

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

• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  Quentin Tarantino
• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• Parasite
  Bong Joon-ho
• Atlantics
  Mati Diop
• High Life
  Claire Denis
• Diane
  Kent Jones
• Dolemite Is My Name
  Craig Brewer

Honorable Mentions

• Amazing Grace
  Sydney Pollack
• The Lighthouse
  Robert Eggers
• Pain and Glory
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Rolling Thunder Revue
  Martin Scorsese
• Tigers Are Not Afraid
  Issa López

Thrillist: The Best Albums of 2019

1. Father of the Bride
   Vampire Weekend
2. Quiet Signs
   Jessica Pratt
3. Goes West
   William Tyler
4. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
   Lana Del Rey
5. Rap or Go to the League
   2 Chainz
6. On the Line
   Jenny Lewis
7. Remind Me Tomorrow
   Sharon Van Etten
8. KIRK
   DaBaby
9. Gold & Grey
   Baroness
10. Fever
    Megan Thee Stallion
11. All Mirrors
    Angel Olsen
12. Titanic Rising
    Weyes Blood
13. While We Wait
    Kehlani
14. i,i
    Bon Iver
15. Jaime
    Brittany Howard
16. Drip or Drown 2
    Gunna
17. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
    Bill Callahan
18. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
19. Ode to Joy
    Wilco
20. Punk
    CHAI
21. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
22. LEGACY! LEGACY!
    Jamila Woods
23. Sound & Fury
    Sturgill Simpson
24. Die a Legend
    Polo G
25. Young Enough
    Charly Bliss
26. Pony
    Orville Peck
27. uknowhatimsayin¿
    Danny Brown
28. Patience
    Mannequin Pussy
29. Magdalene
    FKA twigs
30. CrasH Talk
    ScHoolboy Q
31. What Chaos Is Imaginary
    girlpool
32. Better Oblivion Community Center
    Better Oblivion Community Center
33. 1000 gecs
    100 gecs
34. The Big Day
    Chance the Rapper
35. thank u, next
    Ariana Grande

Electric Lit: 15 Best Novels of 2019

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

• Death Is Hard Work
  Khaled Khalifa
• The Old Drift
  Namwali Serpell
• The Unpassing
  Chia-Chia Lin
• Gingerbread
  Helen Oyeyemi
• Riots I Have Known
  Ryan Chapman
• The Memory Police
  Yoko Ogawa
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Bunny
  Mona Awad
• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• The Heavens
  Sandra Newman
• Women Talking
  Miriam Toews
• Mostly Dead Things
  Kristen Arnett
• The Need
  Helen Phillips

Electric Lit: 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019]

• Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
  Jeannie Vanasco
• Ordinary Girls
  Jaquira Díaz
• How to Be an Antiracist
  Ibram X. Kendi
• Go Ahead in the Rain

  Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller
• 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
• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• Rough Magic

  Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
  Lara Prior-Palmer
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
  T Kira Madden
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• The Collected Schizophrenias
  Esmé Weijun Wang
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• In the Dream House
  Carmen Maria Machado

Ultimate Classic Rock: 10 Best Rock Albums of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Western Stars
   Bruce Springsteen
2. Help Us Stranger
   The Raconteurs
3. WHO
   The Who
4. Colorado
   Neil Young
5. Space Between
   Sammy Hagar and the Circle
6. Fear Inoculum
   Tool
7. From Out of Nowhere
   Jeff Lynne's ELO
8. Let's Rock
   The Black Keys
9. Signs
   Tedeschi Trucks Band
10. Tenderness
    Duff McKagan
10. Sinematic
    Robbie Robertson

Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2019, as published by The New Yorker

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

1. Dolly Parton's America
2. Headlong: Running from COPS
3. Uncover (The Village)
4. Intrigue (Tunnel 29)
5. 1619
6. Reply All
7. Anthem (Homunculus)
8. The City (Reno)
9. Richest Hill
10. Trump, Inc.