20 in 10: KJ's Best of the Decade

How can it possibly be almost the end of the 2010s? Sometimes it feels like this decade has lasted a million years, especially the latter half of it. It's a cliche that time moves faster as you age, but it's one that I'd found to be true until 2016, the year that never ended and then somehow stretched into three more. But maybe that makes it even more important to look back on what we did and where we came from, and best-of-decade lists is one way to do that. Even if dates and quantities divisible by 10 are an arbitrary way to measure things, in the end. And it was a fun exercise to go back and think about the things I was enjoying several years ago.

This list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, or some grand statement of objective quality, just a list of works, from all genres and in various forms of media, that I really loved and/or that have stayed with me, released wholly or in part between 2010 and 2019. It's not really "best of", more like "favorites of". I limited it to 20 because otherwise this project could gotten way out of hand (see: my honorable mention list). Even when I feel like I'm not reading or watching as much, I still discovered some great stuff, and I hope some of them are among your favorites, too.

In alphabetical order:

( The Top 20 )

And now here are a whole bunch of honorable mentions, most of which I at least considered for the top 20, but they go here because I had to cut off the list somewhere.

( Honorable Mentions )

So that's a lot of stuff! Too much great stuff, too much to list even within the honorable mentions. What are some of your favorites of the last ten years?