Year-End Lists

The New Yorker: The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022, a list of a dozen "essential reads" followed by a long list of further recommendations

[see also The Best Books of 2023 • The Best Nonfiction of 2022 • The Best Books We Read in 2020]

• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Chilean Poet
  Alejandro Zambra
• Continuous Creation

  Last Poems
  Les Murray
• Customs
  Solmaz Sharif
• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
  Jamil Jan Kochai
• The Last White Man
  Mohsin Hamid
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz

The New Yorker: The Best Nonfiction of 2022, a list of a dozen "essential reads" followed by a long list of further recommendations

[see also The Best Books of 2023 • The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022 • The Best Books We Read in 2020]

• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• Bad Mexicans

  Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
  Kelly Lytle Hernández
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• G-Man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
  Beverly Gage
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Magnificent Rebels

  The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  Andrea Wulf
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole

Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

1. Nope
   Jordan Peele
2. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
4. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
5. Armageddon Time
   James Gray
6. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
7. Mad God
   Phil Tippett
8. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
9. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
10. Bergman Island
    Mia Hansen-Løve
11. Benediction
    Terence Davies
12. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
13. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
14. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
    Richard Linklater
15. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
16. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
17. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
18. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
19. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
20. Flux Gourmet
    Peter Strickland
21. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
22. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
23. This House
    Miryam Charles
24. A Night of Knowing Nothing
    Payal Kapadia
25. Corsage
    Marie Kreutzer
26. The Kingdom: Exodus
    Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred
27. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
28. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
29. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
30. In Front of Your Face
    Hong Sang-soo

Mesfin Fekadu: The Best Albums of 2022, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2023]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. SOS
   SZA
3. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Heart on My Sleeve
   Ella Mai
5. Harry's House
   Harry Styles
6. Caprisongs
   FKA twigs
7. It's Almost Dry
   Pusha T
8. Girls Night Out
   Babyface
9. Age/Sex/Location
   Ari Lennox
10. Ivory
    Omar Apollo

Honorable mentions

• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• Wasteland
  Brent Faiyaz
• The Loneliest Time
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• Public Displays of Affection: The Album
  Muni Long
• Motomami
  Rosalía

Kevin Slane: The Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Boston.com

1. Severance
2. Andor
3. Better Call Saul
4. The Bear
5. The Rehearsal
6. Reservation Dogs
7. Pachinko
8. Atlanta
9. The Righteous Gemstones
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Guardian: The 50 Best TV Show of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. The Bear
2. Sherwood
3. Severance
4. Hacks
5. The Responder
6. Big Boys
7. Better Call Saul
8. Industry
9. Derry Girls
10. This Is Going to Hurt
11. Top Boy
12. House of the Dragon
13. Yellowjackets
14. Atlanta
15. Pachinko
16. The White Lotus
17. Mo
18. Somewhere Boy
19. Station Eleven
20. Bad Sisters
21. Abbott Elementary
22. We Own This City
23. How To with John Wilson
24. The Tourist
25. Stranger Things
26. Julia
27. Somebody Somewhere
28. Heartstopper
29. Andor
30. Anne
31. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
32. The Great
33. Frozen Planet II
34. Navalny
35. Am I Being Unreasonable?
36. Better Things
37. Black Bird
38. Cheaters
39. Ozark
40. Maryland
41. Barry
42. The Outlaws
43. The Walk-In
44. Love Life
45. The English
46. SAS: Rogue Heroes
47. The Dropout
48. Ellie & Natasia
49. Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams
50. Chloe

Complex: Best Movies of 2022

1. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
   James Cameron
4. Nope
   Jordan Peele
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
   Ryan Coogler
6. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
7. The Batman
   Matt Reeves
8. Tár
   Todd Field
9. Till
   Chinonye Chukwu
10. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood

Elena Lazic: Best Films of 2022, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. A Room of My Own
   Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze
2. Athena
   Romain Gavras
3. Both Sides of the Blade
   Claire Denis
4. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
5. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
6. Emily the Criminal
   John Patton Ford
7. Safe Place
   Juraj Lerotic
8. Sharp Stick
   Lena Dunham
9. The Son
   Florian Zeller
10. The Worst Ones
    Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2022

Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Rumble Strip
2. The Prince
3. Will Be Wild
4. Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
5. Bone Valley
6. Articles of Interest: American Ivy
7. Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
8. Heavyweight
9. Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
10. Let's Make A Sci-Fi

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by New York Magazine, a poll of over 220 podcast creators, producers, and hosts

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Normal Gossip
2. Shameless Acquisition Target
3. Articles of Interest: American Ivy
4. We Were Three
5. Dead Eyes
6. Bone Valley
7. Welcome to Provincetown
8. If Books Could Kill
9. Mother Country Radicals
10. The Trojan Horse Affair
11. Will Be Wild
12. All There Is with Anderson Cooper
13. Into It with Sam Sanders
14. The Town with Matthew Belloni
15. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

Repeat Winners (see note)

• Maintenance Phase
• Heavyweight

Other Interesting Picks

• Midst
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• Björk: Sonic Symbolism