The 2019 List of Lists

You’d think it’d be hard to sum up a year in a list, and you’d be right. You actually need about 52 of them.

Below, we offer up the best internet roundups of 2019 in our annual List of Lists, sourced from both our favorite publications and a few that we personally put together. Why these particular lists? We aimed to find those that stood out from a largely bland pack and also offer real, engaging commentary.

But also: The top things we got stuck in our rectums, an annual Deadspin tradition (RIP) that has mercifully been given a lifeline by Vice.

Enjoy the new year/decade. And don’t get stuck in the past.

CULTURE

• The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019
• The 15 Best TV Shows of 2019
• The 12 Best (and 5 Worst) Movie Moments of 2019
• Afropunk Approved: 2019’s Best Albums
• The Best Music Books of 2019
• Metacritic’s Top Films, Shows and Games of 2019
• The Best Films of 2019, According to the Independent Film Community
• The 10 Best Shots from Movies in 2019
• Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2019
• The Best Podcasts of 2019
• The 15 Best Books of 2019
• What Your Favorite Album of 2019 Says About You (Megan Thee Stallion — Fever: You just graduated summa cum laude and paid your tuition selling pictures of your feet.)
• 30 Best Movie Posters of 2019
• The Best Music Videos of 2019
• The Most Watched In-Flight Movies of 2019
• The Best Rap Verses of 2019

(Special Bonus: Year-End Lists: All the Critics’ “Best Of” Lists, in One Place)

TECH / WEB

• Google’s The Year In Search 
• Top 10 Innovations That Mattered Most (including a submarine that “gives birth” to new icebergs in the shrinking Arctic)
• The Best Interactive Design of the Year
• The 100 Best Inventions of 2019
• The Best Gadgets of 2019

SPORTS

• The 27 Most Dominant Athletes of 2019
• The Ringer’s 41 Favorite Sports Moments of 2019
• Sports Illustrated’s Best Sports Photos of 2019
• Longform’s Best of 2019 Sports
• Worst Sports Betting Bad Beats of 2019

A YEAR OF THINKING POSITIVELY

• 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About 
• Which Nation Improved the Most in 2019?
• 52 Things I Learned in 2019 (#10: “Since the 1960s, British motorways have been deliberately designed by computer as a series of long curves, rather than straight lines. This is done for both safety (less hypnotic) and aesthetic (“sculpture on an exciting, grand scale”) reasons.”)
• The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019
• Hopeful Images from 2019

FOOD/DRINK

• Top 20 Whiskies of 2019
• Hot Ones: The Best Da Bomb Reactions of 2019
• The Top Complaints About NYC Dining in 2019
• The World’s Best 50 Bars
• 2019 Was the Year of the Chicken Sandwich
• The Top 100 Restaurants in the U.S.

MISCELLANEA

• Best of 2019 – Guinness World Records
• The Best Photos of 2019
• Statistics of the Year (#1: 72.6 years, the estimated global average for life expectancy at birth in 2019, a new record)
• The 10 Most Popular GIFs of 2019

INSIDEHOOK’S BEST OF 2019

• The 50 Best Memes of 2019, Explained by a Young Person
• The Best Booze of 2019
• The 10 Best New Cars We Drove in 2019
• The 19 Best Photo Books of 2019
• The 100 Best Songs (and 20 Best Albums of 2019)

… AND THE WORST OF 2019

• Lie of the Year (from guess who)
• The Year in Stupidity
• The Craziest Things TSA Seized in 2019
• The Worst Social Media Fails of 2019
• What Did We Get Stuck in our Rectums Last Year? (“COAT HANGER, “PATIENT UNSURE HOW IT GOT THERE”)

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