The only "Best of" List you will ever need

It's nearing the end of the year folks and that means plenty of "Best of" lists. We want this to be your one-stop-shop for all your "Best of" needs. I am your "Best of" host and will update this post until the last "Best of" list has been written. Here's what we have so far broken down by topic.


* = added 1/5/12


Articles/Blog Posts

• Best of Longform
• More long reads
• Scientific American's 51 blog posts among many great blog posts
• Give me something to read's highlights of 2011
• Overthinking It's 5 most popular blog posts of 2011
• Art of Manliness's best posts of 2011

Books

• Amazon's best books of the year
• Amazon's best sellers of the year
• Esquire's 10 best books of 2011
• Nytimes 100 notable books of 2011
• The Guardian's best books of 2011
• The Atlantic's editors and writers' best books of 2011
• NPR's best books of 2011
• Slate's editors and writers' best books of 2011
• Writer's favorite books (Salon)
• Good's best books of 2011
• Serious Eats' top cookbooks
• LitReactor Staff's best books of 2011
• Nielson's best selling books of 2011
• GOOD's year in books

Education

• GOOD's year in education*

Entertainment

• Nymag's year in culture 2011
• Vulture's best and worst of the year in entertainment
• Underwire: Tastiest bits of pop culture
• GoldDerby's best and worst awards moments of 2011*

General

• Time's top ten everything
• The Onion's year in review
• AOL's (they're still around?) best of 2011
• LA Times year in review
• The Atlantic's year in review
• E! Online's List of Everything
• MTV's best of 2011

Internets

• Buzzfeed's 40 best internet memes
• The DailyBeast's best viral videos
• NPR's top news memes
• Buzzfeed's 90 best twitter accounts (@smartppllike is nowhere to be found...)
• Rolling Stone's top 10 memes
• Good's the year in facebook updates (Jan - Mar | Mar - Oct | Oct - Dec )
• GOOD's year in viral videos

Misc.

• Buzzfeed's 45 things we should forget about 2011
• Buzzfeed's 16 WTF moments
• Washington Post's year in cartoons
• Dvice's 10 geekiest marriage proposals
• Funny or Die's winners of 2011
• Good's the year in Infographics
• Alt Text: 10 things no one cared about in 2011
• GOOD's people we said goodbye to in 2011
• The year's most annoying catchphrases
• GOOD's year in sex
• Serious Eat's top 15 most popular recipes
• Serious Eat's greatest coffees of 2011*

Movies

• The New Yorker's 26 Best Movies
• Rolling Stone's 10 best movies
• The Atlantic's year in movies
• The Atlantic's biggest movie controversies
• Salon's 10 best movies of 2011
• 250 movies in one trailer
• Underwire's top 10 most hated movies
• Kyle Osborne's top 10 best films of the year*
• Kyle Osborne's worst films of the year*

Music

• The Atlantic's best albums of the year
• NPR's year in music
• Spin's best albums of 2011
• Paste magazine's 25 best music videos of 2011
• The AV Club's best music of 2011
• Rolling Stone's 50 best singles
• Pitchfork's top tracks, videos, photos, etc.
• NPR's 5 best cover songs
• 2011's top pop hits in a five minute jam
• Wired's top 100 songs spotify playlist
• Rolling Stone's Readers' Poll best new artists of 2011*

News

• Slate's dumbest news story of 2011
• The Atlantic's top 10 political stories
• Good's biggest news of the year
• CNN's 2011 events that will shape the world for years to come
• The Guardian's news in lego
• GOOD's year in economic disasters
• Best newsy viral videos
• ABC News' year in review
• The Morning News' most important events of 2011*

Photography

• Reuters 100 best photos of the year
• Buzzfeed's 45 most powerful images of 2011
• Buzzfeed's 50 best animal photos of the year
• Buzzfeed's 40 best protest signs
• The Atlantic's year in photos (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
• Time's top 10 photos of the year
• Thrasher's 10 most jaw-dropping skateboarding photos of 2011

Science

• Wired's top 10 scientific discoveries
• Best DotPhysic's blog posts of 2011
• Wired's top science image galleries of 2011*
• Wired's top new animals of 2011*
• Volcanic year in review*
• Scientific American's top 5 astounding animal videos of 2011* (thx Melissa)

Sports

• The Atlantic's top 10 most impressive achievements of the 2011 NFL season
• GOOD's year in sports controversies
• Best table tennis shots of 2011

Technology

• The Atlantic's biggest tech stories of the year
• GQ's best gadgets of the year
• Wired's wish list

Television

• Paste Magazine's best television shows of 2011
• The Atlantic's Best television episodes
• Rolling Stone's best television moments
• AdWeek's 10 best commercials (they got #1 right IMO)
• Entertainment Weekly: Best and Worst of SNL for 2011*

Ed

Ed enjoys all forms of entertainment and has an unnatural love for quantitative methodology. He operates out of a basement in Northern Virginia (@edomaniac).

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