Fifty Favorite Lists: A Sampler

(This marks the 400th list I’ve added to this page.* At this point, I thought it might be valuable to provide a sort of “Greatest Hits” catalog: fifty of the most useful or entertaining lists in the set so far—fifteen about books, fifteen about movies, fifteen about music, and five others. I’m going to pin an additional button for this sampler to the top of the page for easy reference, and I’ll revisit and update it every so often, either at each new fifty or each new hundred.)

Lists About Books

• Fifty Favorite Books

• Favorite Books By Year

• Twenty Favorite Flash Fiction Collections

• Fifty Novels With Animals as Characters, Alphabetically by Animal

• Twenty-Five Favorite End-of-the-World Books

• Fifty Great Novels That Adopt a Child’s POV, In Order by Age

• A Dozen Favorite Novels About Jesus, Arranged on a Heresy Scale

• Twenty Novels About Impossible Cities

• Top Ten Weirdo Sex Books

• Ten Favorite Works of ’Pataphysical Fiction

• A Dozen Favorite “Hermit Crab” Books

• Favorite Books of the 21st Century

• Ten Novels That Take Sudden Right-Angle Turns

• A List of Favorite Living Writers by Country

• Ten Authors With Extraordinary Five-Book Runs

Lists About Movies and TV

• Fifty Favorite Movies

• Ten Favorite End-of-the-World Movies

• Twenty Favorite Time-Travel or Time-Loop Movies

• Ten Favorite Movies About Ghosts

• Twenty Favorite Monster Movies

• Twenty Movies That Are Better Than the Book

• Ten Favorite Movies Adapted from Comic Books

• Ten Favorite “Creature Shop” Movies

• Ten Impressively Nihilistic Movies

• Ten Impressively Joyful Movies

• One Hundred Favorite Movies of the 21st Century

• A Dozen Favorite Arkansas Movies

• Ten Favorite “That Guys” of Cinema, with Links to My Favorite Movies by Each of Them

• Ten Favorite Film Performances by Actors Playing Themselves

• Ten Directors with Extraordinary Five-Film Runs

Lists About Music

• Fifty Favorite Albums

• Five Favorite Toy Instrument Bands

• Ten Highly Questionable Soft Rock Artists I Like Anyway, Represented as Anagrams

• Favorite Songs by One Hundred Artists (With Links!)

• Twenty Fascinating One-Instrument Albums

• Ten Favorite Story Songs

• Ten Impressively Nihilistic Albums

• Ten Impressively Joyful Albums

• Favorite Albums of the 21st Century

• Ten Favorite Albums Inspired by Books

• Twenty Songs That Reliably Make Me Cry

• Twenty Favorite Living Lyricists

• A Dozen Favorite Muppet Songs

• Fifty Favorite 80s Pop Songs Containing Saxophone Solos (With Links!)

• Ten Bands With Extraordinary Five-Album Runs

Lists About Something Else

• Fifty Quotations About Writing

• Ten Favorite Steven Wright Jokes

• Ten Favorite Panel Cartoons

• Ten (+1) Favorite Book Covers

• A Complete List of All the Love Notes in The Illumination

* note: updated at #750

— February 18, 2023

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