Year-End Lists

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by New York Magazine, a poll of "a few hundred people across the podcast field — producers, hosts, independent creators, executives, agents, engineers, and so on"

[see also 2022 • 2021]

1. Search Engine
2. The Retrievals
3. You Didn't See Nothin
4. Ghost Story
5. The Ezra Klein Show
6. Hang Up
7. This American Life and What Next: "The Call"
8. Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
9. The Town with Matthew Belloni
10. Weight For It
11. The 13th Step
12. You Must Remember This: Erotic 90s
13. Bandsplain
14. The Big Dig
15. Knowledge Fight

Special Repeats

• If Books Could Kill
• Normal Gossip

On Heavyweight...

• Heavyweight

Other Interesting Picks

• The Blindboy Podcast
• Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily
• Lights Out
• Odd Lots
• Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

Nerdette: The Eight Best Podcasts of 2023 as aired on WBEZ and selected by Leah-Simone Bowen and Nick Quah

• If Books Could Kill
• The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
• Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas
• The Retrievals
• Murder on Sex Island
• Everything is Alive

Honorable mentions

• Bloodlines
• Ghost Story

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Vulture: Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2023

HuffPost: The 10 Best Podcasts We Listened To In 2023

[see also 2019]

• The Retrievals
• Strike Force Five
• Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Project Unabom
• The Scottie & Sylvia Show
• Safeword
• Maintenance Phase
• Wilder
• Field Trip
• Sold a Story

Mara Davis: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by Paste Magazine

[see also 2022]

• The Girlfriends
• Think Twice: Michael Jackson
• The 13th Step
• Grapevine
• Scamanda
• Ghost Story
• Earwitness
• Weight For It
• Blind Plea
• The View: Behind the Table

Honorable Mentions

• 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
• The American Birding Podcast
• Critics at Large
• Endless Scroll
• Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy
• Maintenance Phase
• Normal Gossip
• Otherworld
• The Retrievals
• Slow Burn
• Too Far with Rachel Kaly and Robby Hoffman
• Unclear and Present Danger
• The Weekly Planet
• You Are Good

Fiona Sturges: Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by Financial Times

[see also 2022]

• Ghost Story
• Have You Heard George's Podcast?
• Filthy Ritual
• Love, Janessa
• Where Are You Going?
• Think Twice: Michael Jackson
• The Retrievals
• McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
• The Heart: Sisters
• Rylan: How to Be a Man

Lauren Passell: My 25 Favorite New Podcasts of 2023, as published by Lifehacker

[see also 2022]

• Louder Than a Riot
• The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
• You Didn't See Nothin
• Search Engine
• Free From Desire: Asexual in the City of Love
• Foretold
• Let's Make A Horror
• Wild
• Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
• Weight For It
• Keys To The Kingdom
• BEEF with Bridget Todd
• The Coldest Case In Laramie
• The Retrievals
• Eerie
• Murder on Sex Island
• Hooked on Freddie
• Say More with Dr? Sheila
• Grapevine
• Dear Alana,
• The Puzzler
• ODB: A Son Unique
• Ghost Story
• The Heist
• The Girlfriends

Vogue: The Best Podcasts of 2023

• The 13th Step
• Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily
• Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
• The Coldest Case In Laramie
• Hang Up
• Hard Fork
• HBO Girls Rewatch
• The Heart
• Heavyweight
• The Martin Chronicles
• More Perfect, Season 4
• Normal Gossip
• The Divided Dial
• On the Media: "Leaving the Extreme Right, and a Marriage, Behind"
• Radiolab: Ukraine
• The Retrievals
• The Run-Through with Vogue
• Search Engine
• She Wants More
• Switched on Pop
• The Town with Matthew Belloni
• The Uncertain Hour, Season 6
• Vibe Check
• Weight For It

Mashable: The Best Podcasts of 2023

1. Ghosts In The Burbs
2. Maintenance Phase
3. Trump's Trials
4. Embedded: All The Only Ones
5. Heaven Bent
6. Infamous
7. Scamanda
8. Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right
9. Holy Week
10. Flipping the Bird: Elon vs. Twitter
11. High Strange

Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. The Retrievals
2. You Didn't See Nothin
3. Search Engine
4. If Books Could Kill
5. Murder on Sex Island
6. Skyline Drive
7. Louder Than a Riot: Season 2
8. My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
9. Popcast
10. The Scandoval Podcast-Industrial Complex

This list contributes to:

• Nerdette: The Eight Best Podcasts of 2023

Reggie Ugwu: Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2022 • 2021]

• Criminal
• Decoder Ring
• Grapevine
• Heavyweight
• More Perfect
• Say More with Dr? Sheila
• The Sound
• Think Twice: Michael Jackson
• The Turning: Room of Mirrors
• Weight For It