NN202: Special Best-of-2019 Edition

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For this week’s NN, I’ve put together a special best-of-the best-of–2019 lists. Read on for a meta-guide to top picks for books, music, TV shows, movies and more!

But first: a couple of my stories to share from yesterday (Monday):

🍲 – From the world of tech and food: Uber Is in Talks to Sell Its India Food-Delivery Business to a Rival. Uber could sell to Zomato, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced as early as this week.

🇮🇳 – And second, from the wider world of India politics, a story yesterday with my colleague Krishna Pokharel: Protests Over India’s New Citizenship Law Widen <– Watch this space. It’s a developing situation.

On to this week’s end-of–2019-themed NN!

Here are ten* items worth your time this week:

* Actually, way more than ten this week! 🙂

📚 1) BEST BOOKS (nonfiction and fiction)

• The WSJ’s best books of 2019

• The New Yorker’s best books of the year

• The New York Times Book Review‘s editors’ picks

• The Times Literary Supplement’s list

• Amazon’s best books of the year

• Goodreads’s picks; see also most popular books published this year

• FiveBooks – picks from the editors of my favorite book-related website

🎶 2) BEST MUSIC

• Pitchfork’s 50 best albums of the year and best 100 songs of the year.

• The New York Times’s 50 best classical tracks of the year

• NPR’s ten rap albums that “raised the bar(s)” this year

🖌️ 3) BEST ART

• WSJ’s Best art of 2019

• The ten best art shows of the year, from Vulture

• Arty’s the best public art of 2019

📷 4) BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

• The New York Times‘s photo editors’ picks

• Nikon/Small World’s best micro photos of 2019

• The best travel photos fro 2019, from National Geographic

🎥 5) BEST MOVIES

• The New Yorker’s best movies of 2019

• Best movies of the year, from the Washignton Post

• Vox’s 21 best films of 2019

📺 6) BEST TV SHOWS

• Hollywood Reporter’s ten best TV shows of the year

• Variety’s best TV of shows of 2019

• 2019’s best TV shows, from the New Yorker

🍴 7) BEST FOOD

• The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, 2019

• National Geographic’s world’s best food destinations in 2019

• Renowned chefs on the best things they ate in 2019, in The Guardian

📱 8) BEST TECH

• AV Club’s best things on the internet in 2019

• CNET’s best tech products of the year

• Best memes of 2019, from Thrillest

🎧 9) BEST PODCASTS

• Vulture’s best podcasts of 2019

• Wired UK on the year’s best podcasts

• The AP’s best podcasts of the year

🐶 10) BEST DOGS!

• National dog show best in show, 2019: Thor the bulldog

• Most popular dog names in the U.S. for 2019, from Rover

• Picks from 2019’s Dog Photographer of the Year competition, by Insider

💡 Quote of the week:

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard

👊 Fist bump from New Delhi,

Newley