Year-End Lists

The Atlantic: The 50 Best Podcasts of 2019, compiled by Laura Jane Standley and Eric McQuade. They've recused The Atlantic's own podcasts.

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

1. Finding Fred
2. The Ballad of Billy Balls
3. Dolly Parton's America
4. 1619
5. Anthem (Homunculus)
6. Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia
7. Headlong: Running from COPS
8. Confronting: O.J. Simpson with Kim Goldman
9. Still Processing
10. The Daily
11. This American Life
12. BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein
13. This Land
14. Ear Hustle
15. Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer
16. Making Gay History (Stonewall 50)
17. Fiasco
18. Uncover (The Village)
19. Radiolab
20. Fatwa
21. Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
22. You Must Remember This (Six Degrees of Song of the South)
23. School Colors
24. The Longest Shortest Time
25. Gay Future
26. Sick
27. 30 For 30 Podcasts (The Sterling Affairs)
28. Embedded
29. Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
30. Throughline
31. The Hurricane Tapes
32. Blackout
33. The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
34. Slow Burn (Season 3)
35. Switched on Pop
36. Sonic Boom
37. The Moment
38. The Stakes
39. The Open Ears Project
40. Rough Translation
41. The Big One
42. Love + Radio
43. Scattered
44. Mogul
45. Sooo Many White Guys
46. Spooked
47. Tell Them, I Am
48. The Last Days of August
49. Freaknik: A Discourse on a Paradise Lost
50. StartUp (The Final Chapter)