Make Lists, Not War

MY CHECKLISTS – VISUAL ARTS

THE BEST CONTEMPORARY ART: A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST

BEST ARCHITECTURE OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME – ORGANIZED BY DIRECTOR

MY FIVE-STAR FILMS

MY CHECKLISTS – FILM

BEST FILM DIRECTORS AND THEIR BEST FILMS – RANKED

BEST FILM DIRECTORS AND THEIR BEST FILMS – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST FILMS – YEAR BY YEAR

BEST FILMS OF 2002

BEST FILMS OF 2003

BEST FILMS OF 2004

BEST FILMS OF 2005

BEST FILMS OF 2006

BEST FILMS OF 2007

BEST FILMS OF 2008

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BEST FILMS OF 2010

BEST FILMS OF 2011

BEST FILMS OF 2012

BEST FILMS OF 2013

BEST FILMS OF 2014

BEST FILMS OF 2015

BEST FILMS OF 2016

BEST FILMS OF 2017

BEST FILMS OF 2018

BEST FILMS OF 2019

BEST FILMS OF THE 2010S

BEST FILMS OF 2020

BEST FILMS OF 2021

BEST FILMS OF 2022

FAVORITE FILMS – BY DECADE

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1920S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1930S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1940S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1950S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1960S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1970S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1980S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 1990S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 2000S

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE 2010S

FAVORITE FILMS – BY COUNTRY

FAVORITE FILMS OF FRANCE

FAVORITE FILMS OF ITALY

FAVORITE FILMS OF GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

FAVORITE FILMS OF JAPAN

FAVORITE FILMS OF SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA

FAVORITE FILMS OF SCANDINAVIA

FAVORITE FILMS OF CHINA, HONG KONG, TAIWAN & KOREA

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST ANIMATED FILMS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST ANIMATED FILMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST SILENT FILMS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST SILENT FILMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST EXPERIMENTAL AND AVANT-GARDE FILMS OF ALL TIME

BEST FILM ACTORS & ACTRESSES OF ALL TIME: PART 1

BEST FILM ACTORS & ACTRESSES OF ALL TIME: PART 2

BEST TV SHOWS – YEAR BY YEAR

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2019
BEST TV SHOWS OF 2020

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2021

BEST TV SHOWS OF 2022

BEST TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

MY 50 FAVORITE TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME

MUSIC
BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME – RANKED
BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME: CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME – BY ARTIST

MY FIVE-STAR ALBUMS

MY CHECKLISTS – MUSIC

LIVE PERFORMANCE LOG: A DIARY

MY PERSONAL MUSIC ARCHIVE: 1981-2018

BEST MUSICIANS
BEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME: RANKED
BEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME: CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST DRUMMERS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST DRUMMERS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST MUSIC – YEAR BY YEAR

BEST MUSIC OF 2002

BEST MUSIC OF 2003

BEST MUSIC OF 2004

BEST MUSIC OF 2005

BEST MUSIC OF 2006

BEST MUSIC OF 2007

BEST MUSIC OF 2008

BEST MUSIC OF 2009

BEST MUSIC OF 2010

BEST MUSIC OF 2011

BEST MUSIC OF 2012

BEST MUSIC OF 2013

BEST MUSIC OF 2014

BEST MUSIC OF 2015

BEST MUSIC OF 2016

BEST MUSIC OF 2017

BEST MUSIC OF 2018

BEST MUSIC OF 2019

BEST MUSIC OF THE 2010S – ALBUMS

BEST MUSIC OF 2020

BEST MUSIC OF 2021

BEST MUSIC OF 2022

BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME

BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST SONGS – BY DECADE

BEST SONGS OF THE 1950S

BEST SONGS OF THE 1960S

BEST SONGS OF THE 1970S

BEST SONGS OF THE 1980S

BEST SONGS OF THE 1990S

BEST SONGS OF THE 2000S

BEST SONGS OF THE 2010S

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC OF ALL TIME – ORGANIZED BY COMPOSER

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC OF ALL TIME – BY TYPE OF COMPOSITION

BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND THEIR BEST WORKS, RANKED: PART 1

BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND THEIR BEST WORKS, RANKED: PART 2

BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND THEIR BEST WORKS: CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST OPERAS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST OPERAS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST OPERAS OF ALL TIME – BY COMPOSER

BEST OPERA SINGERS OF ALL TIME

BEST JAZZ ALBUMS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST JAZZ ALBUMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST JAZZ MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME AND THEIR BEST WORK- RANKED
BEST JAZZ MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME AND THEIR BEST WORK – CHRONOLOGICAL
BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ MUSICIANS

BEST BLUES OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST BLUES ALBUMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST WORLD MUSIC OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST HIP-HOP AND RAP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

BEST HIP-HOP AND RAP SONGS OF ALL TIME

BEST COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

BEST COUNTRY SONGS OF ALL TIME

101 FAVORITE COVER SONGS – PART 1

101 FAVORITE COVER SONGS – PART 2
LITERATURE
THE BIG LITERATURE LIST: A META-META LIST

BEST LITERATURE OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST LITERATURE OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST LITERATURE OF ALL TIME – BY AUTHOR

THE BEST WRITERS AND THEIR BEST WORKS, PART 1: 850 BCE – 1870
THE BEST WRITERS AND THEIR BEST WORKS, PART 2: 1871-PRESENT

MY FIVE-STAR BOOKS
MY CHECKLISTS – LITERATURE

MY 150 FAVORITE BOOKS

BEST BOOKS – YEAR BY YEAR

BEST BOOKS OF THE 1970S

BEST BOOKS OF THE 1980S

BEST BOOKS OF THE 1990S

BEST BOOKS OF 2000

BEST BOOKS OF 2001

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BEST BOOKS OF 2005

BEST BOOKS OF 2006

BEST BOOKS OF 2007

BEST BOOKS OF 2008

BEST BOOKS OF 2009

BEST BOOKS OF 2010

BEST BOOKS OF 2011

BEST BOOKS OF 2012

BEST BOOKS OF 2013

BEST BOOKS OF 2014

BEST BOOKS OF 2015

BEST BOOKS OF 2016

BEST BOOKS OF 2017

BEST BOOKS OF 2018

BEST BOOKS OF 2019

BEST BOOKS OF THE 2010S

BEST BOOKS OF 2020

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

BEST BOOKS OF 2022

BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

THE BEST POETRY OF ALL TIME – A LIST WITH LINKS

THE BEST POEMS OF ALL TIME – ORGANIZED BY POET

THE BEST POEMS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME – RANKED

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BEST PLAYS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST PLAYS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME

BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME

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BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST ESSAYS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST ESSAYS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL
SCIENCE, TECH & NATURE
MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES OF ALL TIME
MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES – CHRONOLOGICAL

THE GREATEST SCIENTISTS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

THE GREATEST SCIENTISTS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST INVENTIONS OF ALL TIME

BEST INVENTIONS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL: PART I (PREHISTORY-1799)
BEST INVENTIONS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL: PART II (1800-1899)

BEST INVENTIONS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL: PART III (1900-PRESENT)

BEST WORKS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

BEST WORKS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING: CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST BRIDGES OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST BRIDGES OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

TIMELINE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

THE BIRDS
PEOPLE
THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF ALL TIME – RANKED
THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHERS OF ALL TIME – RANKED

THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHERS OF ALL TIME – CHRONOLOGICAL

BEST ATHLETES OF ALL TIME – RANKED

BEST ATHLETES – BY SPORT
HISTORY
TIMELINE OF HUMAN HISTORY I: PREHISTORY TO 1499
TIMELINE OF HUMAN HISTORY II: 1500-1799

TIMELINE OF HUMAN HISTORY III: 1800-1899

TIMELINE OF HUMAN HISTORY IV: 1900-1999

TIMELINE OF HUMAN HISTORY V: 2000-PRESENT

THE 100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY

THE 70 GREATEST BATTLES OF ALL TIME

WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

Best Essays of All Time – Ranked
A reader suggested I create a meta-list of the best essays of all time, so I did.
I found over 12 best essays lists and several essay anthologies and combined the
essays into one meta-list. The meta-list below includes every essay that was on at
least two of the original source lists. They are organized by rank, that is, with
the essays on the most lists at the top. To see the same list organized
chronologically, go HERE.

Note 1: Some of the essays are actually chapters from books. In such cases, I
have identified the source book.

Note 2: Some of the essays are book-length, such as Virginia Woolf’s A Room of
One’s Own. One book listed as an essay by two listers – Fernando Pessoa’s The Book
of Disquiet – is also regularly categorized as a work of fiction.

On 11 lists
James Baldwin – Notes of a Native Son (1955)
On 6 lists
George Orwell – Shooting an Elephant (1936)
E.B. White – Once More to the Lake (1941)
Joan Didion – Goodbye To All That (1968)

On 5 lists
Joan Didion – On Keeping A Notebook (1968)
Annie Dillard – Total Eclipse (1982)
Jo Ann Beard – The Fourth State of Matter (1996)
David Foster Wallace – A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again (1996)

On 4 lists
William Hazlitt – On the Pleasure of Hating (1823)
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance (1841)
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own (1928)
Virginia Woolf – The Death of a Moth (1942)
George Orwell – Such, Such Were the Joys (1952)
Joan Didion – In Bed (1968)
Amy Tan – Mother Tongue (1991)
David Foster Wallace – Consider The Lobster (2005)

On 3 lists
Jonathan Swift – A Modest Proposal (1729)
Virginia Woolf – Street Haunting: A London Adventure (1930)
John McPhee – The Search for Marvin Gardens (1972)
Joan Didion – The White Album (1968-1978)
Eudora Welty – The Little Store (1978)
Phillip Lopate – Against Joie de Vivre (1989)

On 2 lists
Sei Shonagon – Hateful Things (from The Pillow Book) (1002)
Yoshida Kenko – Essays in Idleness (1332)
Michel de Montaigne – On Some Verses of Virgil (1580)
Robert Burton – Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
John Milton – Areopagitica (1644)
William Hazlitt – On Going a Journey (1822)
Charles Lamb – The Superannuated Man (1823)
Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience (1849)
Henry David Thoreau – Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (from Walden) (1854)
Henry David Thoreau – Economy (from Walden) (1854)
Henry David Thoreau – Walking (1861)
Robert Louis Stevenson – The Lantern-Bearers (1888)
Zora Neale Hurston – How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
George Orwell – A Hanging (1931)
Junichiro Tanizaki – In Praise of Shadows (1933)
Fernando Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet (1935)
James Agee and Walker Evans – Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Simone Weil – On Human Personality (1943)
M.F.K. Fisher – The Flaw (1943)
Vladimir Nabokov – Speak, Memory (1951, revised 1966)
Mary McCarthy – Artists in Uniform: A Story (1953)
E.B. White – Goodbye to Forty-Eighth Street (1957)
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
Joseph Mitchell – Joe Gould’s Secret (1964)
Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation (1966)
Edward Hoagland – The Courage of Turtles (1970)
Annie Dillard – Seeing (from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) (1974)
Maxine Hong Kingston – No Name Woman (from The Woman Warrior) (1976)
Roland Barthes – Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1982)
Annie Dillard – Living Like Weasels (1982)
Gloria E. Anzaldúa – How to Tame a Wild Tongue (1987)
Italo Calvino – Exactitude (1988)
Richard Rodriguez – Late Victorians (1990)
David Wojnarowicz – Being Queer in America: A Journal of Disintegration (1991)
Seymour Krim – To My Brothers & Sisters in the Failure Business (1991)
Anne Carson – The Anthropology of Water (1995)
Susan Sontag – Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
Etel Adnan – In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005)
Paul LaFarge – Destroy All Monsters (2006)
Brian Doyle – Joyas Voladoras (2012)

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