I am so there with you RE: best of lists. They always give me a chance to expose myself to cool things that might have flown under my radar throughout the year.
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Cool idea.
My perpetual gripe with "best of lists" is that they inevitably become merely "lists" once people start suggesting all and sundry additions.
Case in point: best of lists on goodreads. They end up with thousands of books.
Yeah, they get watered down and there's a curation problem. I like stuff like Wirecutter where the idea is (a) that someone is curating for you and (b) you have some reason to believe they have good judgment.
I don't think you necessarily have that reassurance when it comes to, say NPR's best music list or best books list which I think is probably just a bland echo of what other places are already saying. But it at least helps to cover for blind spots, if you care about keeping up with the cultural conversations that are happening.
But what I really want is something that is opinionated, that has personality, like Fogus's list of Best things And Stuff from 2021, which is what gave me the original idea.